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    Furor Over Pittsburgh Paper’s ‘Cover’ for Trump on Race

    ‘Everyone in Pittsburgh Is Equally Revolted’ HuffPost Ends Its Write-for-Free Contributor Pages Get ‘Out,’ Trump Tells CNN’s Acosta ‘Un-Presidential,’ ‘Un-American,’ Reporters Say Trump Falsely Claims Gains Among Blacks Figures Manipulated Against Muslims, Report Says El Salvador’s Mass Graves: S—holes Made-in-U.S.A. No Discipline for Suburban Chicago Cops Who Shoot Story of Serena’s Delivery Becomes Wake-Up Call…

  • Reporter April Ryan Asks Trump: ‘Are You a Racist?’ During MLK Event at White House

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day is around the corner, so you know what that means? Time to rattle Old Ben Carson’s birdcage and see if he has some words he’d like to mumble as the resident black face in Donald Trump’s administration. On Friday the former neurosurgeon, who might want to do some work on…

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    Trump Had a Racist Meltdown, Some Say

    Retweet of Anti-Muslim Video, ‘Pocahontas’ Cited Ryan ‘Great’ With Snub From White House on Party Press Groups Sue for Details on Leak Investigations Yamiche Alcindor Leaving N.Y. Times for PBS ‘Journal-isms’ Makes the News Conyers’ Wife Irritated by Media Attention Baquet Talks Pain, Therapy, Blackness With Jay-Z $75K to Help Puerto Rico Radio Stations Recover…

  • Who’s Surprised? April Ryan Not Invited to White House Holiday Party for 1st Time in 20 Years

    April Ryan, the black woman the White House loves to hate on, will not be going to the scary White House white-walking winter wonder-klan for its annual Christmas party—for the first time in 20 years. The NAACP tweeted the news Wednesday morning, saying that Ryan was not invited. The veteran White House correspondent, who recently…

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    Trump Campaign Video Attacks April Ryan 

    ‘Sad day I am singled out as an enemy of the White House’ Trump Shamed Into Calling Out Racists ‘Haven’t You Spread A Lot of Fake News Yourself, Sir?’ ‘The Hardest Part of My Job. . .’ Kaepernick Dilemma Deserves Black Cultural View NABJ, NAHJ Announce Joint Convention in 2020 Maynard Institute Plans Education, Pipeline…

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    Black Journalists, ‘The World Needs You’

    April Ryan, Charles Blow Sound Alarms at NABJ A ‘Hot Mess’ at NABJ, With Ed Gordon, Omarosa White House reporter April P. Ryan declared that “for the last seven months, I’ve been under attack,” and New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow said that the Trump administration’s threats to press freedom “may be existential”—central to…

  • April Ryan Named 2017 NABJ Journalist of the Year

    It’s been an interesting year to be veteran White House reporter April Ryan. Between back-and-forths with President Donald Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, and her generally excellent work, Ryan’s name has been in the spotlight pretty much since this administration made itself comfy in the White House. And now, in what is sure…

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    Who’s Next? Eyes at Fox Shift to Sean Hannity

    Departures Take Toll on Company Loyalist Four of Color Awarded U.S. Nieman Fellowships 10 of Color Win Michigan, Stanford Fellowships April Ryan Named NABJ’s Journalist of the Year Kimbrough Removed as Dean of FAMU J-School Gala Comedian Likens Media to ‘Minorities’ Trump Confused About His Hero, Andrew Jackson Reporter Resigns After Playing Along With N-Word…

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    More Companies Pull Ads From Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor

    Sexual Harassment Allegations Are ‘Disturbing’ Angelo Henderson Family Sues Doctors Over Death Over 15 Years, 1,687 Fewer Newspaper Companies Last Black Female Newspaper Sports Editor Laid Off Signed: April Ryan by CNN, Ed O’Keefe by CBS L.A. Times 4-Part Series: ‘The Problem With Trump’ Jenni Monet Honored for Standing Rock Coverage Wagner Is Rare Spanish-Speaking…

  • April Ryan, Maxine Waters and Now Susan Rice: Black Women Are Natural Enemies of Trump Administration

    Nature shows us many examples of “natural enemies” in the wild. Mongooses will take on poisonous snakes without a thought, sea lions will mob up and attack killer whales, and a pack of hyenas will take on a lion three times their size. When you know who your enemy is; when you know you’re just…