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“America’s Dad” Admits Giving Women Sedatives for Sex “Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he got Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he admitted giving the sedative to at least one woman and ‘other people,’ according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press,”…

More Dump Trump Columnist Sees Irony in Univision’s Defense of Mexicans “Rapper Flo Rida, the Macy’s department store chain and football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith all had something in common on Wednesday: They’re the latest to distance themselves from Donald Trump following his remarks about Mexican immigrants,” David Bauder reported Wednesday for the Associated…

Company Drops Miss Universe, Miss USA After Protests “Today, hundreds of thousands of Latinos and non-Latinos cheer NBC Universal and its parent company Comcast for severing their relationship with Donald Trump for his bigoted, racist, anti-Latino rant,” the National Hispanic Media Coalition said on Monday. “NBC Universal/Comcast, to its credit, moved to disassociate itself from…

President’s Eulogy in Charleston Made for Riveting TV In full preacher mode, President Obama delivered riveting television Friday when he eulogized the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator, rising political star and one of the nine people killed last week at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. “President Barack Obama used his eulogy for…

NABJ President Rebukes Don Lemon Over N-Word Stunt A stunt by CNN anchor Don Lemon in which he held up the ultimate racial slur and asked viewers whether they found it offensive has drawn a rare rebuke from the president of the National Association of Black Journalists, which only two years ago saw Lemon co-host…

New NBC Anchor Sensitive to Race, Tech, Western Issues Lester Holt says he has “a strong sensitivity” to the story of race and that “It’s a story that, among others, we’ll be going at aggressively” as newly named permanent anchor of “NBC Nightly News.” In a telephone interview as he began his role as the…

The State Out Front; Black Paper Most Hardline South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call for removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol grounds Monday continues a decades-long fight in which the state’s newspapers have played a role, though it was not always clear whether they were leading or reflecting public opinion. “Two…

Post and Courier Has Less Diversity Than 15 Years Ago The massacre that killed nine worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday left news organizations with a wealth of decisions. Do they call the suspect a “terrorist”? Do they deploy reporters to the scene? How much coverage does it warrant? How…

Media Can Affect a Community’s Confidence in Itself In Teach for America and AmeriCorps, citizens fan out across the country and work in service to local communities. Now, how about a “Report for America,” with journalists? Steven Waldman, described as “a serial news entrepreneur,” made the proposal at a conference sponsored by journalism organizations that…

Pacific Northwest Outlets Made Public Record Requests The story that created so much buzz at week’s end started at a 22,000-circulation newspaper in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and the ABC-TV affiliate in nearby Spokane, Wash. It was about Rachel Dolezal, the president of the Spokane NAACP who claimed that she was African American but whose parents say…