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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…
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Blacks Lose Ground in the U.S. Military
The impressive strides that African Americans have made in the leadership ranks of the military following integration have all but stopped in recent years, and they now occupy just a tiny share of the nation’s top military jobs. Nearly 62 years after President Harry R. Truman signed an executive order to desegregate the nation’s Armed…
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NEWS STAND: Why Does Obama Apologize, Mortgage Rates Dip, LA's Killing Fields, and more..
Self-Sabotage: Obama claims responsibility for oil crisis http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_15 We’ll have two eggs, coffee and a side of self-sabotage please. Clearly President Barack Obama is not reading the Root.com. We’re not sure why he’s coming out now to claim responsibility for the BP Oil disaster – you know the one that dwarfs the amount of damage…
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Was Rand Paul Too Scared to 'Meet the Press'?
Rand Paul Cancels Out on “Meet the Press” Rand Paul, engulfed in controversy over his views on the 1964 Civil Rights Act 24 hours after he won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, has canceled his scheduled appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” His campaign spokesman “said he was exhausted and…
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Brown, Black and the Persistence of Profiling
About a week after 9/11, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case that began in a sleepy, college town in upstate New York. That case, Brown v. City of Oneonta, involved one of the most egregious cases of racial profiling in decades. An elderly woman in the upstate New York college town reported…