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Trump Tells Lester Holt He Asked Comey if He Was Under Investigation
‘I Was Going to Fire Regardless of Recommendation’ Two Latinas Added to Fox News Lawsuit ASNE Leader: Scant Diversity Progress ‘Palpable’ Editor & Publisher Explains Pale List of Achievers ‘Maverick’ Black Site Boasts ‘Superstar Team’ Parties Disagree on Role of News Media Puerto Rico, Colonial Relationship Both Bankrupt BET Leaving D.C. for N.Y. After 37…
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Conservative Outlets, White House Pushed Hispanic-Teen Rape Allegations—Which Were Then Discredited
‘Dozens and Dozens of Segments on FOX News’ Sinclair Buys Tribune Media in Epic Merger Grambling J-Program Denied Re-Accreditation Medill Not Applying for Re-Accreditation Comedian Goes Where Many of Us Fear to Tread Chinese Exclusion Act Commemorated ‘America’s Growing News Deserts’ South Sudan Suspends Al Jazeera Bureau Short Takes The White House was questioned sharply…
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Ebony’s Owner Michael Gibson: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
The owner of Ebony magazine sought to reasssure doubters Sunday that despite recent upheaval, “We are absolutely going to survive. This is a profitable business. We’re 100 percent committed.” “We really want to expand our brand,” Michael Gibson, co-founder and chairman of CVG Group, owner of Ebony and Jet, told Journal-isms by telephone, calling plans…
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Ohio Teacher Fired for Dragging Preschooler Down Hallway
More news of a serious breach of duty by those entrusted to care for our most vulnerable: An Ohio preschool teacher has been fired after a colleague snapped a photo of her dragging what looks to be an African-American tot down a hallway. The unnamed teacher was an employee with Alta Head Start, a program…
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Yet Another 15-Year-Old Shot and Killed by Police, This Time in San Diego
On the very same day 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was laid to rest after being fatally shot by a police officer in Texas, an unidentified teenager, also 15, was shot and killed by San Diego police. NBC San Diego reports that the teen called 911 just before 3:30 a.m. Saturday asking officers to conduct a welfare…
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Desiree Rogers to Leave Johnson Publishing Co. Along With Most of Ebony’s Masthead
Jet Editor To Lead Both Publications Black Writer Loses Column Over NRA Ties Disrupter Chooses Activism Over Column Was That Trump in the Stands at Fenway Park? In Spanish, the News Priority Is Immigration Gannett Layoffs Hit Small Papers Hardest The Story of Two Who Ran From Police Short Takes “Desiree Rogers, CEO of Johnson…
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#BringBackOurGirls: 83 Chibok Students Released by Boko Haram
Slowly, surely, more of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram are finding their way out of captivity. The Associated Press reports that Nigeria’s government confirms that 82 kidnapped Chibok, Nigeria, schoolgirls have been released and are expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in the capital, Abuja. Buhari’s office tweeted the…
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15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Laid to Rest as Family, Friends, Classmates Remember His Short Life
At a funeral service that included a touching photo montage, soaring gospel music and the names of those Americans slain by police ringing out from the pulpit, more than 800 family and friends packed into a Baptist church in Mesquite, Texas, on Saturday to remember the life of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Jordan was shot and…
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Rape Charges Dropped Against Hispanic Teens Trump White House Used to Justify the Bullshit
In what surely has to be a disappointment for a White House that used this case to dubious and distasteful political advantage, prosecutors have dropped charges against two Hispanic teens accused of raping a girl in a Maryland high school bathroom. At least one of the teens was an “illegal” immigrant who handily fit the…
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Trump Suggests Certain Federal Financing for HBCUs May Be Unconstitutional
Oh, Omarosa, what will you now tout as your justification for aligning with our anti-black commander in chief? We refer, of course, to the fact that the White House director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison has pumped up Donald Trump’s support of HBCUs with silly photo ops that really amount to nothing…
