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Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists who became an international symbol of opposition to the death penalty, is being subjected to “worse” prison conditions today than when he was on death row, his supporters say. Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, was liberated from…

MSNBC to Decide Whether to Return Commentator to Air After years of complaints that commentator Pat Buchanan’s diatribes were racist and anti-Semitic, MSNBC is ready to make a decision about whether to return Buchanan to the air. “Pat and I are going to meet soon and a decision will be made,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin…

“I was one of twenty or so reporters in the room, but according to Dylan Byers I was first to tweet it,” Dave Weigel of Slate.com wrote from New Hampshire on Friday. He was referring to this town hall comment Thursday from Newt Gingrich: “So I’m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to…

Muted Coverage of GOP Candidates’ Posture on Race No Blacks, Latinos on Time Magazine Political Team Black Women Contributing to New Washington Post Blog New Yorker, Miami Herald Join Univision-Marco Rubio Feud Ken Ward, 44, Dies Before Starting New Job in Tampa Claudia Pryor Malis, Television Producer, Documentarian Melissa Harris-Perry Awarded Weekend MSNBC Show Short…

Bernard Seabrooks first walked through the doors of CBS News in 1955 — a year after the historic Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He was Bernard Seabrooks ‘has been like a Godfather to many of us at CBS News,’ Russ Mitchell said. (Credit: CBS News)the first African American in what CBS called…

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Forbes magazine Monday unveiled its list of “30 Under 30” — “These are the people who aren’t waiting to reinvent the world. FORBES, leaning on the wisdom of its readers and the greatest minds in business, presents the 30 disrupters under 30, in each of 12 fields, making a difference right now.” One field was…

Managing Editor Title Comes With Move to Local Station “Russ Mitchell, current anchor of the CBS Evening News weekend editions and The Early Show on Saturday, and national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, the CBS Evening News, and The Early Show will be joining the staff of WKYC as Managing Editor Evening News and…

It’s been a while since a young black man wrote such an opinion piece in the New York Times, and on Monday, the comments were cut off at 634. There were more, though, in other social media. “. . . One evening in August of 2006, I was celebrating my 18th birthday with my cousin…