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NABJ and JAWS Come to the Defense of Yamiche Alcindor After President Trump's Attacks
The continuously escalating COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a need for President Trump to be truthful and to drop his compulsion to spread misinformation. Unfortunately, any effort to hold the president accountable is met with insults and derision. Journalist Yamiche Alcindor has recently taken the brunt of the president’s attacks and now both the National…
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It’s Time for America to Do the Right Thing and Quarantine Trump’s Press Conferences
On Sunday, the president of people who didn’t wash their hands before the coronavirus and probably still don’t held a rally disguised as a press conference in which he rated questions on a scale of nice and ugly, berated a reporter for quoting him and continued to lie to the American public about what he…
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Longest Serving Black Congressman John Conyers Jr. Passes Away at 90
John Conyers—the longest-serving black congressman in U.S. history—has passed away. The Michigan Democrat who represented Detroit died Sunday at age 90. PBS Newshour’s White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor broke the news on Twitter that he died in his sleep, after confirming the death with family members. A founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, the…
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Black Is the New Black: Refinery29’s Annual For Us, By Us Feature Celebrates the Mutual Respect of Black Women
Black women singing the praises of other black women is truly a beautiful thing—and one we can’t get enough of here at The Glow Up. We love seeing it wherever we can find it, which is why we’re loving Refinery29’s second annual “Black Is the New Black” list of ten black female game-changers, from KiKi…
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Trump Calls Reporter April Ryan a ‘Loser’ and ‘Nasty’ as He Continues His Assault on Black Female Journalists
At this point, I’m just waiting for the breadline to prove that we are in fact living in communist Russia. Once again, the president of people who kiss their dogs in the mouth is proving that he is absolutely unfit for office as he recently went on an absolute tear against the press and, more…
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Trump Just Held a Disastrous Press Conference; Fought With a CNN Correspondent and Called Black Reporter’s Question Racist
This is a trying time for America, but more importantly, for journalists trying to cover King Joffrey Baratheon of the House of White. First off, a Trump press conference is always a disaster, but a day after the midterm elections, the president gave a rare performance, including engaging in a full insult-filled shoutfest with CNN…
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Ava DuVernay, Gloria Carter and Samira Wiley Honored at GLAAD Awards Because Black Women Stay Winning
For Gloria Carter, a closeted gay black woman with four kids, life was not horrible. But it was “different.” “I chose to protect my family from ignorance. I was happy, but I was not free,” said Carter at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York City on Saturday. Carter, whose youngest son is…
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Haiti, Botswana and Other Alleged ‘Shithole’ Countries Clap Back at ‘President’ Trump
The “shithole” countries that the “president” of the United States disparaged during an Oval Office meeting Thursday would love someone from the administration to say that shit to their face appreciate some clarification of Donald Trump’s explicitly racist and incendiary comments. To recap for everyone just emerging from rocks, boulders or other similarly heavy and…
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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…
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Watch: The Root 100 Gala Was the Blackest Event on TV
On Sunday The Root 100 gala aired on Fusion TV. Hosted by The Root 100 honoree Angela Rye and A.J. Calloway, the gala—which took place Nov. 9 in New York City—featured other honorees such as Franchesca Ramsey, Yamiche Alcindor and S. Lee Merritt, along with special guests Common, Rapsody and many others. In case you…