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Serena Williams Breaks Down How Much Money Her Daughter Gets For Her Weekly Allowance

Serena Williams Breaks Down How Much Money Her Daughter Gets For Her Weekly Allowance

Tennis legend Serena Williams and her husband negotiated a contract laying out the terms of their 7-year-old daughter's weekly allowance
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    Hillary Clinton to Address NABJ-NAHJ Convention

    Hillary Clinton will address the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Washington on Friday, the two groups confirmed on Monday. “The format is up in the air at the moment and it is unclear if Clinton will take questions, according to a source familiar…

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    Dems Flaunted Diversity at Convention, but to What End?

    “One implicit message on the first night of the Democratic convention: Even if you regard both major-party candidates as economic and foreign-policy disasters, recall the undocumented immigrants that stood on the stage, the black man with a Latino wife, the first black First Lady of the United States, the embrace of LGBT activists, and try…

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    How The Undefeated Got Michael Jordan Exclusive

    Michael Jordan’s surprise announcement Monday that he would give $2 million to organizations working to improve police-community relations was published first on ESPN’s recently launched site The Undefeated because “he had read some of the articles on The Undefeated and liked what we were doing,” editor-in-chief Kevin Merida said he was told. “Jordan’s declaration has…

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    ‘Dean of Sports Columnists’ Takes New York Times Buyout

    William C. Rhoden, the “dean of sports columnists” in one appraisal, told readers Sunday that he is leaving the New York Times after nearly 35 years, 26 of them writing the “Sports of The Times” column. The Times offered buyout packages and “50 Guild Newsroom colleagues will leave under this buyout and one Guild member…

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    Emperor Trump Has No Clothes

    Judging from columnists of color who weighed in this week, the declarations from Donald J. Trump that he is appealing to more than a handful beyond his white base are little more than pipe dreams. And that is by design, they said. “At the Republican Convention, this is what it boiled down to,” Julianne Hing…

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    Twitter Moves on Hate Speech

    “Twitter is on an anti-hate speech tear, suspending multiple accounts associated with racist and sexist messages targeting Ghostbusters’ star Leslie Jones earlier this week,” Lauren C. Williams wrote Wednesday for thinkprogress.org. “Chief among them was conservative critic and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. “Yiannopoulos, who gained popularity during the Gamergate movement, is a polarizing figure known…

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    Hampton U. Cancels J-Student Trips to Party Conventions

    “A 50-student trip to both conventions has been canceled by administration officials of a historically black college citing security concerns,” Darren Sands reported Monday for BuzzFeed. “In a memo made available to BuzzFeed News, Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC) Dean B. Da’Vida Plummer said there were ‘unresolved personnel, operational, and…

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    Facebook Blames Schools for Its Poor Diversity

    “Facebook says it’s having trouble hiring people of color because public schools are failing to educate them properly,” Damon Beres reported Friday for the Huffington Post. “The company is 52 percent white, 38 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black, according to diversity numbers released Thursday. Sixty-seven percent of Facebook employees are male…

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    CEO of TV One Parent Company Calls Google a Threat to Black Ad Dollars

    TV One’s hour-long NewsOne Now with Roland Martin has regained the viewers it lost with its September shift from 9 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET, Alfred C. Liggins III, president and CEO of the parent Radio One, Inc., told Journal-isms on Wednesday. Liggins said he would like to “ultimately expand the show to a full multi-hour…

  • #PowerThursdays: Are Ghost and Angela Destined to Fail?

    Let’s cut to the chase: Love, for Ghost (Omari Hardwick) and Angela (Lela Loren) on the hit series Power, is no walk in the park. Forget the fairy tale—this is New York City. And being in love with a separated (i.e., not divorced, but, yeah … it’s coming), reformed hustler is a super-messy situation. But…