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Will Media Create Their Own 'WikiLeaks'?
Al-Jazeera’s “Palestine Papers” Embarrass All Sides “Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit — the network’s in-house version of WikiLeaks,” Raffi Khatchadourian blogged Monday for the New Yorker magazine. “When the unit first went online, there was not much coverage about it in English, but…
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Sam Yette Dies, Wrote of 'Black Survival'
Samuel F. Yette, a reporter, teacher, author and photojournalist whose publication of the 1971 book “The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America” coincided with his dismissal as the first black Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, died Friday at an assisted living facility in Laurel, Md. He was 81 and had Alzheimer’s disease, a…
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How Haitians Keep It Moving Despite All Odds
Haitians in Haiti and expatriates around the world recently marked the first anniversary of the earthquake that wrecked millions of lives and destroyed their country’s capital. From Port-au-Prince to Paris, from Montreal to Miami, Haitians mostly observed the day with prayer. They went to church and attended memorial Masses and other religious services to remember…
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Don't Let Politicians Take Advantage of Tucson
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will be remembered in Washington for two notable quotes: One was a response to pressure put on President Obama by the Congressional Black Caucus. That quote was short and Anglo-Saxon, starting with the letter “f.” The other quote was simple yet eloquent in its political point: “Never…
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Ted 'Golden Voice' Williams Speaks Out About Altercation With His Daughter
Ted “Golden Voice” Williams was detained on Monday for getting into a verbal altercation with his daughter while in Los Angeles to shoot two segments for the Dr. Phil Show reuniting Williams with his family. Williams and his daughter Janey got into a shouting match in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel after Williams says…
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Bryan Monroe to Lead CNN Online Politics Team
Ex-Knight-Ridder, Johnson Publishing Exec Moves to D.C. Bryan Monroe, former news executive at the defunct Knight Ridder and at Johnson Publishing Co., has joined CNN as editor of CNNPolitics.com, CNN announced on Monday. Monroe told Journal-isms he considered it his “dream job” and had started on Monday. “In this newly created role, Monroe will lead…
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Video: Uncle Beats Nephew for Claiming to Be a Thug on Facebook
Apparently, the young man in the video below has been perpetrating on Facebook. He claims he’s a thug and that he’s “dropping bodies on the block.” But his uncle isn’t having it. From AOL Black Voices: “This is my f—-ing nephew right here,” he says as he points the belt at the boy. “He ain’t…
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The McEducation of the Negro
Something wasn’t right at the high school that Darwin Bridgers’ son attends, so he sat in on the class to see for himself. All morning long, the instructor at the Washington, D.C., charter school pointed to a list of ground rules, a detailed list of rewards and punishments posted on a wall near the front…
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Tweets Drive News of Teena Marie's Death
Updated on December 27, 5:18 pm ET. R&B singer Teena Marie died at age 54, it was reported Sunday night, and the news spread by e-mail and by social-media tools such as Twitter before the mainstream media had a chance to catch up. But it was old-school reporting that enabled Roland Martin, the analyst for…
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Top 10 Socially Conscious Songs of 2010
“Shine” was tacked onto John Legend’s collaborative album with the Roots, Wake Up! The song was recorded for the end credits to the documentary Waiting for Superman, which spotlights America’s public school crisis. Water the seeds and they’ll grow, ya know? Captions by Alvin Blanco Tongue-in-cheek rappers Das Racist (The Root surveyed them in “The…