“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…

“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…

“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…

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…

“One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites—including seven policemen—in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police,” begins a summary of Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 by William Ivy Hair, published in 2008. “An…

It is possible that contemporary America has seen three days as stunning, violent and racially charged as those that ended this week, but the nation certainly did not have the technology then to bring so much to the public so swiftly. Cellphone videos. Live transmissions via social media. 24-hour news cycles. For good measure, a…

With the exception of ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” according to the Rev. Al Sharpton, the broadcast network morning shows ignored Tuesday’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, an African American, by a Baton Rouge, La., police officer. On cable news, meanwhile, Tyler Cherry and Alex Kaplan of Media Matters for America reported that their analysis…

The news media, once criticized as giving Donald Trump free publicity for thinly veiled racist pronouncements, pounced so hard on a tweet sent Saturday by the GOP candidate that Trump quickly altered its controversial image and accused the media of being “dishonest.” “Donald Trump tweeted a meme Saturday that used dog-whistle anti-Semitism to announce that…

“Donald Trump’s support among African-American voters has plunged to a new low—and the New York Daily News wanted to make sure the Republican presidential candidate knew it,” Ed Mazza reported Wednesday for the Huffington Post. “According to the Quinnipiac University poll, just 1 percent of African-American voters supported Trump. That was well behind the 6…

The trade organization representing the black press called out Facebook Monday as the latest threat to its existence, declaring that because of its inscrutable choices about stories what to display, “Our readers are at the mercy of powers unheard and unseen as never before.” Denise Rolark-Barnes, chairperson of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and Benjamin…