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    The New York Times Documents Police Lying

    ‘Entrenched Perjury . . . Shows Little Sign of Fading’ Gang Databases a Life Sentence for Blacks, Latinos Police Rule Out Hate as Motive in Austin Bombings Meredith to Lay Off 1,000 at the Former Time, Inc. Lisa Garcia Quiroz, Time Diversity Officer, Dies George Wilson, Capitol Hill Radio Man, Dies at 70 Services Planned…

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    Richard Prince

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    New York Times Gets 1,400 Ideas for ‘Overlooked’ Obits

    Newspaper Admits Shortchanging Women of Color Chilling Consequences for Covering Women’s Rights 4 Sessions to Train Newsroom Leaders of Color Boston Globe Finds Latinos Feel Invisible in Mass. Lester Holt Didn’t ‘Want to Be Defined by My Color’ Smith Joins Hill in Leaving ‘SportsCenter’ Experts Advise on Covering White Nationalists Revived ‘Indian Country’ to Hire;…

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    Richard Prince

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  • You Have to Be Perfect or Lucky (or Perfect and Lucky) to Buy a House If You’re Black

    I’ve learned through age, maturity, meditation and Lisinopril to not allow myself to be bothered with certain things that might have irked me 10 or even five years ago. Basically I’m learning to give less fucks because fucklessness is a form of self-care for me. But there is (at least) one strain of conversation that…

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    Damon Young

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    Lerone Bennett, Ebony Editor and Historian, Dies

    One of 20th Century’s Most Influential Journalists N.Y. Times’ Conservative Hire Out in Half a Day Ethiopian Journalist Freed After 7 Years in Prison Sensitivity Training to Follow Advertiser Backlash Trump’s Losing Effort to ‘Keep America White’ NAHJ to Meet With Editor Over Cartoon Monica Richardson Gets Expanded Duties at AJC Critics Weigh In on…

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    Richard Prince

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  • New York Times Hires, Fires Reporter for Using the N-Word, but She’s Not Racist … Just White

    In an obvious display of one-upmanship during Black History Month, the New York Times erased the notable achievement of African-American icon Craig Jones from the movie Friday, who was famously fired on his day off, when the heralded newspaper abruptly fired white opinion writer Quinn Norton on the same day it hired her after tweets of…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • 10 Thoughts on Anna Holmes’ New York Times Op-Ed ‘Black With (Some) White Privilege’

    Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel and editorial director at Topic.com, recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled, “Black With (Some) White Privilege.” Full disclosure: I’m part of a currently running, very interesting and insightful documentary series she executive-produced called The Loving Generation, which explores the lives and identities of kids born…

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    Panama Jackson

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    N.Y. Times Brass Missing at Pioneer Black Photographer’s Funeral

    About 60 or 70 people paid tribute Saturday at services for Don Hogan Charles, who played a historic role at the New York Times as its first black photographer, but “there were no senior management representatives present from either the Photo Desk or corporate,” former Times photographer Chester Higgins Jr. told Journal-isms on Sunday. “I’m…

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    Richard Prince

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  • 2017: The Year Liberal White People Reminded Us That They’re White, Too

    Any time capsule attempting to capture 2017 would definitely include an acoustic cover of “Bodak Yellow,” an American flag with a Colin Kaepernick figurine kneeling on it, a clip of the sunken-place scene from Get Out and an Apple watch, just in case someone in the future discovers a reason for it existing. But the…

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    Damon Young

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  • Photographer Don Hogan Charles, Who Shot Iconic Photo of Malcolm X at His Window, Has Died

    The first black staff photographer hired at the New York Times, Don Hogan Charles, the man who shot the iconic photo of Malcolm X at a window with a rifle, has died. Former New York Times staff writer Rachel Swarns tweeted the news Sunday afternoon, prompting many of us to wonder where the Times obituary…

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    Angela Helm

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  • How Sexual Harassment Silences Black Women in the Workplace

    Updated Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, at 2:29 p.m. EST: The Ford Motor Co. sent The Root a statement responding to the New York Times report about allegations by female employees at the company’s Chicago plants of years of racial and sexual harassment. “Ford does not tolerate sexual harassment or discrimination. We take those claims very…

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    Anne Branigin

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