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Oscar Grant Watch: Intense Defense Testimony Grips Courtroom
Oscar Grant’s close friend Jackie Bryson, who was on the train platform with Grant when he was killed, testified on behalf of the plaintiff. Bryson proved a formidable witness against the defense with his recounting of Grant’s shooting, which came after three hours of combative back and forth with defense attorney Michael Rains. Some of…
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Seattle: The Punch, the Past and the Connection
For the past week, courtesy of a video on YouTube, it’s been the punch thrown ’round the world: On June 14, during an arrest for jaywalking and a fracas that resulted from that arrest, a Seattle police officer punched a teenager in the face after she shoved the officer while being arrested. The teenager who…
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Is BP's Escrow Account the Right Move Now?
On Wednesday the White House released a statement explaining that BP had agreed to set aside $20 billion for an escrow account through which legitimate claims of damages resulting from the Gulf oil spill would be paid. Kenneth Feinberg, who formerly headed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will be the independent claims administrator, and…
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Celebrating Black Fathers and Sons in Film
Based on the true story of Chris Gardner and starring real-life father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness follows Gardner (Will Smith) and Christopher Jr. (Jaden Smith) as they sleep in a church’s homeless shelter and even in a San Francisco train station bathroom while Chris struggles through an unpaid internship at…
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Helen Thomas' Sisters: The Media Got It Wrong
The sisters of Helen Thomas say her statements about Israel — which cost the White House correspondent-turned-Hearst columnist her job — have been widely misinterpreted. In a telephone interview initiated by Journal-isms, three of them said Thomas was not calling for the destruction of Israel or the return of all Israelis to Europe or the…
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Will Mainstream Media Outlets Respond to Diversity Survey?
ASNE To Try Again on Online Diversity Survey The American Society of News Editors, which received only seven responses after asking, it said, 28 online organizations to respond to its annual diversity survey, will “do a new census,” according to ASNE President Milton Coleman. Coleman told Journal-isms he hoped to have the survey completed by…
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South Carolina Republican Calls Candidate for Governor a *%@! Raghead
Well, it seems that hate is so pervasive in South Carolina that even Republicans are turning on each other. During a radio show being taped in a Columbia, SC bar, Republican S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts called Lexington Rep. Nikki Haley, an Indian-American Republican woman running for governor, a “ fu$%^g raghead” several times while explaining…
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Whatever Happened to the Black Republican Wave?
This was supposed to be ”the year of the black Republican.” Google the phrase and you’ll get more than 20,000 results, most of them ending with a question mark. Prompted largely by a May 10 New York Times article, ”Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in GOP Races,” media outlets pounced on the Great African-American Republican…
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Generation Y's New Age Hustle
GALLERY: Get to know the next breakout stars, including ones identified by The Root’s readers. “Which sounds better?” she asked me, “The Collective Muse or The Muse Collective?” It was late one morning when my sister—a former art history major turned part-time waitress, sometimes philanthropist and freelance curator—broke the news of her latest endeavor. Adding…
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Wale — Rhymes With Gay
By any objective measure — moral, legal, ethical, the eyes of his horrified mother — the hip-hopper Wale screwed up. Management for the gifted artist best known for his duet with Lady Gaga contracted him to perform at D.C. Black Pride, a 20-year-old festival—for 45 minutes and $18,000. At the last minute, his team backed…