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'The Help': Is the Ending Implausible?
“When I read ‘The Help’ two years ago (I couldn’t put it down) and watched the film last Saturday (which made me laugh and cry), I could feel the pain of another white 40-something Mississippian who wants to make it all better. “She’s pining for a happier ending for our state, and she’s using her…
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Jet Magazine to Add Opinion Pieces
Johnson Publishing Co. plans to address Jet magazine’s competitive disadvantage with Internet publications by adding opinions and perspective pieces to the print magazine, Johnson CEO Desiree Rogers told Journal-isms on Wednesday. “You can curate and have opinions on what happened over the week,” she said. Jet can also offer “more of what you’ve loved all…
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Media Coverage of UK Riots Questioned
Hundreds Complain About Racial Remarks on BBC “The BBC has received nearly 700 complaints about the historian and broadcaster David Starkey’s claim that ‘whites have become black’ during a discussion about last week’s riots on Newsnight,” Lisa O’Carroll reported Monday for Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Of those contacting the BBC, 696 were protesting about Starkey’s comments,…
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The Johnson Publishing Clan's Roots
In an episode of African American Lives 2 that aired in 2008, chairman and then-CEO Linda Johnson Rice talks about how the great migration played a role in the creation of her father’s publishing empire. Go to our Roots section to learn about tracing your ancestry.
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Ebony and Jet Increase Circulations
Ebony and Jet magazines reversed circulation declines in the first half of 2011, according to new figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, on the heels of a redesign of Ebony and the outsourcing of circulation duties at Ebony and Jet. Hispanic-interest titles also dominated the fastest-growing magazines, Lucia Moses reported for Adweek. “Poder Hispanic,…
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VIDEO: Sharpton Invites The Root's Readers to March
The day before the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is unveiled on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Rev. Al Sharpton and radio host Tom Joyner are leading a rally to draw attention to the need for “jobs and justice.” Sharpton told The Root that he expects 50,000 to show up on…
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NABJ 'Happy' for Al Sharpton Opportunity
Activist Says Black Journalists Would Be Part of His Show The Rev. Al Sharpton said Tuesday that if his show on MSNBC is made permanent, black journalists will be a part of it. In a telephone call to Journal-isms, Sharpton said he understood that only a few had complained that journalists, not Sharpton, should have…
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Greg Lee Jr. Elected President of NABJ
At a passionate and emotional business meeting that stretched for nearly three hours, members of the National Association of Black Journalists voted Friday to “seek reunification with Unity: Journalists of Color as soon as is feasible,” but “based on conditions involving the financial and governance structure of Unity that do not conflict with the best…
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Ex-OWN CEO Named Black Voices Top Editor
AOL is relaunching its Black Voices site this week with Christina Norman, the ousted CEO of Oprah Winfrey’s struggling OWN cable channel as executive editor, David Kaplan reported Monday for paidContent.org. White Huffington Post writers will produce content for Black Voices in an effort to “cross-pollinate the sites,” Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of Huffington…
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New York Times Won't Attend NABJ in 2012
Company Endorses Candidate but Won’t Support Conference The New York Times Co. is not attending the National Association of Black Journalists convention next year. “We are supporting Unity,” Desiree Dancy, vice president, diversity and inclusion, told Journal-isms on Friday. “We’re disappointed in the fact that NABJ pulled out of Unity and yet this is a…