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    Did Syrian Children’s Light Skin Motivate Trump?

    ‘The White-Oriented News Media Avoid Race’ Trump Supporters’ Attacks Take Their Toll: Journalists Seek to Foil the ‘Contentious and Ugly’ Race Influences Policies on Opioids, Crack How a Series on Latinos Won the Top Pulitzer Prize Short Takes “This week, it was the images — gruesome photos of a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians…

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    ‘Blue Chip’ Activist Roger Wilkins Dies

    Insider; Editorialist at N.Y. Times, Washington Post . . . I Said, ‘They Don’t Know What to Make of You’ Escobar Rises, Days Moves in Philly Shakeup Journalists Assaulted by Pro-Trump Supporters L.A. Times Ventures ‘On Edge in Trump’s America’ Could Obama Sue Trump for Defamation? NAHJ, Gay Journalists Publish Spanish Stylebook Racial Words That…

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    What Journalist Jimmy Breslin Taught Us, or Didn’t, About Diversity

    Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was described by the Associated Press as “the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker.” Others hailed his shoe-leather reporting from what seems like another era, and some used the adjective “white” before “working class”…

  • Poet Elizabeth Alexander Named to Pulitzer Prize Board

    Acclaimed poet, author and professor Elizabeth Alexander has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize board. Alexander wrote and delivered her poem “Praise Song for the Day” for President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry American Sublime and a 2016 Pulitzer finalist…