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    Opioid Mixture Killed Veteran News Anchor Roy Hobbs

    Accidental Deaths Grow Among African Americans Cosby Verdict Filtered Through Race, Gender Ala. Paper Acknowledges ‘False Narrative’ on Blacks Joyner Agrees to Drop R. Kelly Music From Show Temple J-School Honored for Equity and Diversity 5,000 Seek 25 Summer Slots at N.Y. Times 100 Campuses Join #SaveStudentNewsrooms Coates, Giago Join Obama, Sotomayor in Academy Nominate…

  • Dance Break! Yara Shahidi Covers T Singapore

    We know—we’re obsessed. And clearly, we’re already missing Grown-ish way too much, since we’re giving you a day full of Chloe, Halle and, now, a double dose of Yara. But we couldn’t possibly see our favorite ingenue on the April cover of the New York Times Style Magazine’s Singapore edition and not share it with…

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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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    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;…

  • 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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    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…

  • 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…

  • 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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    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…

  • 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…