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Black Suspects Are Covered Disproportionately by NYC’s Late-Night TV Newscasts
Editor’s note: This news item was originally published in Richard Prince’s Journal-isms column. “Four major broadcast television stations in New York City have continued to give disproportionate coverage to crime stories involving African-American suspects, a Media Matters analysis found,” Daniel Angster and Salvatore Colleluori reported Monday for Media Matters for America. “Between August 18 and December 31, 2014, the stations’…
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Black, Asian and Hispanic Consumers Are the Fastest-Growing Group in Consumer Economy
Advertisers looking to get the most out of their bucks should be looking to multicultural consumers. According to a Nielsen report released Wednesday, multicultural consumers are exhibiting tremendous spending power and are the fastest-growing segment of the country’s “consumer economy.” The report, “The Multicultural Edge: Rising Super Consumers,” looked at the spending habits of African…
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Ex-NFL Star Darren Sharper Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
Facing rape charges in Arizona, California and two other states, former NFL all-pro safety Darren Sharper took a deal that will see him serve nine years in a California federal prison. According to ESPN, Sharper could have gotten 33 years for the California charges alone, which involved allegedly drugging and raping two women after meeting…
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Alaska Weed Activist Who Quit TV Job Got Her Dispensary Raided by Police
It seems that Charlo Greene—also known as Charlene Egbe, the Alaska TV reporter who quit her job on the air in September to protest the state’s ban on recreational marijuana—has become a target for local police. According to the Associated Press, Anchorage police served Greene a search warrant on Friday and ransacked her cannabis club…
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Mo’Ne Davis Takes High Road, Asks That Player Who Called Her Awful Name Be Reinstated
Over the weekend a Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania baseball player took to Twitter to call 13-year-old Mo’ne Davis, the star pitcher who shook up the Little League tournament, a derogatory name. “Disney is making a movie about Mo’ne Davis? WHAT A JOKE. That [s—t] got rocked by Nevada,” Joey Casselberry tweeted. It didn’t take long…
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Houston Woman Shot in the Head in Road Rage Incident
Houston resident Kay Hafford, 28, was driving to work Friday when a driver cut her off. Hafford honked her horn, and that’s when the driver of a white SUV reportedly pulled up next to her and shot Hafford in the head and drove off. According to ABC News, Hafford wasn’t aware that she had been…
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NYC Subway Worker Stops Knife Attack
Two men were arguing inside a New York subway station early Sunday morning when one of them pulled a knife, but thanks to a shift change and a heroic subway clerk, police apprehended the man accused of being the knife-wielding attacker. According to the New York Daily News, a 27-year-old man and a 30-year-old man,…
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Ky. Officer Finishes Race With Woman Who Refused to Quit
Asia Ford’s weight-loss journey, in which she has already lost some 200 pounds, led her Saturday to the Rodes City Run, a 10K race in Louisville, Ky. Having gone from weighing 474 pounds at her heaviest, Ford, who had changed her diet and begun working out daily, was ready for the 6-mile trek. According to…
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Mayoral Candidate Apologizes for Blackface Performance That Mocks Black Women
A white Oklahoma mayoral candidate has apologized to voters after videos surfaced of him wearing blackface and performing in drag as a black woman named Pollyester Kotton, according to Think Progress. Bill Helton, who is currently serving as Elk City’s commissioner and works as a hairstylist, claims that the character was inspired by one of his African-American…
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US Army Investigates Alleged ‘Racial Thursdays’ at Alaska Base
The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers on a base in Alaska were given a pass to hurl racial slurs at one another during so-called Racial Thursdays, according to Army Times. The soldiers are members of 2nd Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, a member of the unit told the Times. The…