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Unity Drops 'Journalists of Color'
The board of Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc. voted Monday to drop “Journalists of Color” from its name, saying members of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association “would not or would seriously consider not attending” its August convention “if ‘journalists of color’ remained as part of the name.” The vote was 11 to 4…
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Soledad O'Brien: 'Named After a Prison'?
Fox Chief Roger Ailes Takes Swipe at Soledad O’Brien Roger E. Ailes, chairman of Fox News, referred to anchor Soledad O’Brien of rival network CNN as “that girl that’s named after a prison” after a lecture Thursday before journalism students at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Chapel Hill, Melody Guyton Butts reported…
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Hip-Hop Lessons for the Business World
Tech investor and entrepreneur Ben Horowitz joined Marcyliena Morgan, founder and director of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, on April 6 to discuss the hip-hop world’s influences on business and entrepreneurship during the Archive’s Cutting Edge Series. Introduced by The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Horowitz talked about his youthful fascination with rap and hip-hop and the music’s daily impact…
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MSNBC Seizes on News of Zimmerman Arrest
Sharpton Appears With Martin Team, Then Interviews Them MSNBC, the cable news network that claims the highest ratings among African Americans, accorded the announcement of George Zimmerman’s arrest in the Trayvon Martin killing the greatest amount of coverage on Wednesday. That coverage included a news conference hosted by its “PoliticsNation” host, the Rev. Al Sharpton.…
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Media Cautious on Tulsa Killings
Reluctance to Label Shootings Racially Motivated “Maybe it’s the Trayvon Martin case, or maybe it’s just the system working as it should, but news organizations are moving cautiously on the story of this weekend’s shootings in Tulsa, Okla., which may — may — have been racially motivated,” Andrew Beaujon reported Monday for the Poynter Institute.…
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Mike Wallace Even Made Black History
“CBS News legend Mike Wallace, the 60 Minutes’ pit-bull reporter whose probing, brazen style made his name synonymous with the tough interview – a style he practically invented for television more than half a century ago – died last night, CBS News reported on Sunday. “He was 93 and passed peacefully surrounded by family members…
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'Like It Is' Chronicled the Black Experience
Long-Running “Like It Is” Chronicled Black Experience Gil Noble, the legendary chronicler of the African diaspora in New York, the nation and the world as host of the long-running WABC-TV show “Like It is,” died Thursday. He was recovering from a stroke he suffered last year. Dave J. Davis, general manager of WABC-TV, told “Journal-isms” that Noble…
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Catlett Opens Up About the Art World
In April 2011, scupltor and print artist Elizabeth Catlett sat down with The Root’s editor-in-chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Researc to discuss her artistic inspirations, life in Mexico and the struggles blacks and women faced, and continue to face, in the modern art world.…
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Tablet Computers Called Newspapers' Future
Will Devices Attract Blacks, Hispanics as Smartphones Do? The tablet computer — the most popular of which is Apple Inc.’s iPad — represents the future of the newspaper business, members of the American Society of News Editors were told on Monday. “This is the primary revenue generator in the digital generation,” said Roger Fidler, whose…
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Trayvon, Shooter Photos in PR Battle
“First it was the hoodie. Now photographs used in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing are the subject of widespread debate, as supporters of both the slain 17-year-old African-American and the shooter, George Zimmerman, say selectivity by some news outlets in which photos they use is proof of bias,” Dylan Stableford wrote Wednesday…