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Black Georgetown Employee Finds Out School Sold His Great-Great-Great-Grandmother
One Georgetown University employee recently found out that he was tied to the school by more than a paycheck. Jeremy Alexander, an executive assistant in Georgetownâs Office of Technology Commercialization, recently found out that his paternal great-great-great-grandmother, Anna Mahoney Jones, was one of the hundreds of slaves sold by two Jesuit priests at Georgetown to…
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Reporting by Women Declining at Networks
âA Womenâs Media Center report examining who provides coverage for 20 top news outlets shows that female journalists continue to report less of the news than do male journalists â with the disparity especially glaring in television,â the center reported Wednesday. âThe WMCâs âDivided 2017′ study finds that at ABC, CBS, and NBC combined, men…
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What Journalist Jimmy Breslin Taught Us, or Didnât, About Diversity
Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was described by the Associated Press as âthe Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker.â Others hailed his shoe-leather reporting from what seems like another era, and some used the adjective âwhiteâ before âworking classâ…
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Guy Who Shot Himself Blames Imaginary Black Guy in NYC
As a very smart colleague of mine notes, âNot even imaginary black people can catch a break.â When under suspicion or in trouble, just use a tactic as old as Methuselah: Blame a black guy. Racism makes the explanation plausible, and even chief executives do it. Anywho, the beat goes on. This time, in New…
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Colin Kaepernick Jumps Into Campaign to Get Food to Somalis on Brink of Starvation
Even without a team, Colin Kaepernick continues to put these athletes to shame with his good deeds. The former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers jumped feetfirst into an ongoing campaign to get food and water to the African nation of Somalia, which is facing a famine that could affect more than 6.2 million Somalis.…
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Marissa Alexander Speaks: The Current System Is âa Messâ
Unfortunately, Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville, Fla., is a living embodiment of the vicious discrepancies of our criminal-justice systemâboth against black defendants and against women. In late January, Alexander was finally able to be done with her debt to the stateâone she paid for with years of her life and more than $10,000 in cash (in…
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Donna Brazile Flatly Denies Giving Questions to Hillary Clinton
Donna Brazile, the veteran Democratic political strategist who parted ways with CNN last year amid WikiLeaks revelations appearing to show that she provided the Hillary Clinton campaign with questions she would be asked in a televised CNN town hall, flatly denied Saturday that she had done so. âAt no time did I receive or participate…
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Black and Brown Elementary School Winners of Indianapolis Robotics Championship Told to âGo Back to Mexicoâ
Some bigoted parents in Indiana prove that the rotten apple doesnât fall far from the diseased tree. They tried to ruin what should have been a very special moment for five black and Latinx 9- and 10-year-olds after they won a citywide robotics championship in Indianapolis. âGo back to Mexico!â two or three kids and…
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Trump Totally Disrespected Angela Merkel. WTF?
There have been rumorsâOK, there was a tapeâthat our current president has a problem with women. He continually disrespected them during his campaignâcalling them slobs, disgusting, blood coming out of their whereverâbut his (complicit) daughter Ivanka Trumpâs presence sought to absolve him of that. And apparently many women fell for it. In fact, 48 percent…
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Iowa Papers Want âRacistâ Congressman Out
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, must go, two of his home-state newspapers say. King tweeted over the weekend, âWe canât restore our civilization with somebody elseâs babiesâ and predicted Monday that blacks and Hispanics âwill be fighting each otherâ before overtaking whites in the U.S. population. Kingâs ârampant racism is an opportunity for Iowa Republicans and…
