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    New Art-School Grad Has Already Landed New Yorker Cover

    Loveis Wise Is in Rare Company Seeing No Diversity, Philly Papers Drop Ad Agency Harold Jackson Leaving Philadelphia for Houston Report on Massive Puerto Rico Toll Overshadowed Outrage Builds on Separation of Families Spanish Again the Most Polarizing Language in U.S. ‘We . . . Got the George Takei Assault Wrong’ ‘Asian American’ at 50:…

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    Angela Helm

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    Roseanne Train Wreck Raises Issues of Race in TV Coverage

    In the fallout over ABC’s cancellation of “Rosanne” over star Rosanne Barr’s racist tweet, much of the commentary congratulatory, some critics raised a challenging question: How can the media cater to red-state voters without mainstreaming the racism that too many of them embrace? “What is America going to do about the normalization of racism?” (video)…

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    Angela Helm

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    NFL No-Knee Rule Blasted as Slap at Blacks

    Opinion Writers Ask Whether Protest Isn’t Patriotic Debra Lee Departs BET After Three Decades Detained Mexican Journalist Wins New Hearing Reporter’s Experience With Freeman Led to ExposĂ© What It’s Like to Win a Lawsuit Against Trump Why We Still Need a Month for Asian Americans Shaun King Says He Was Duped by Woman’s Story Short…

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    Angela Helm

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    Fox & Friends Pans NABJ’s ‘Journalist of the Year’

    Black Conservative Gets Facts Wrong on Jemele Hill A Penalty for Nondisclosure of Diversity Info? Patricia Thompson to Direct Accrediting Group Obamas to Produce Shows, Films for Netflix 9-Year St. Louis Reporter Agrees to Drug Program Ticketing Disparities Linked to Class as Well as Race Wedding Drew Big Audience, but It’s All Relative He Wisely…

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    Angela Helm

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    Media Noticeably Stingy on Naming Racial Profilers

    Falsely Accused Named, but Accusers Often Aren’t Group of 10 Reports on Being Black on Campus Few Takers on Georgetown Offer to Slave Heirs What? No Animal Planet Special on Royals? Freedom Riders 50 Years After Their Mug Shots Joanna Hernandez Joining U. of Fla. J-School Suzette Hackney to Lead Indy Opinion Pages Donna Nadine…

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    Angela Helm

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    Fox Reaches $10 Million Discrimination Settlement

    Kelly Wright, Sole Black Male Anchor, Agrees to Leave Literary Lion Tom Wolfe Had His Critics on Race Amazon Adopts ‘Rooney Rule’ for Board Vacancies Watchdog Group Wants Probe of Gaza ‘War Crimes’ Senate Votes to Hold Line on Net Neutrality ESPN, Netflix Plan 10-Parter on Jordan, Bulls Tegna Foundation Awards 9 Grants for Diversity…

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    Anne Branigin

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    Black Cop’s Tale of Infiltrating KKK Is a Hit at Cannes

    New Spike Lee Joint Gets Standing Ovation Israeli Drone With Tear Gas Targets Journalists Chinita Anderson, Playwright, NPR Staffer, Dies Hundreds Arrested in New Poor People’s Campaign Baquet to Be Honored by Press Freedom Group Pot Arrest Rate Higher for Blacks, Latinos Offensive Mascots a Disqualifier, Foundation Says Ex-Radio Manager at Morgan State Alleges Fraud…

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    Angela Helm

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    For Many Moms, ‘Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair’

    Media Remind Us of Those Not on Holiday Cards Citizens See Journalists as Powerful in Own Right Critics Target April Ryan After Melania Comment Does ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Apply to Food Media? Philly Responds to Report on Housing Bias N.C. Paper Says Let Public Decide on R. Kelly Dallas to Memorialize 1910 Lynching Victim Congress…

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    Angela Helm

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    Univision Bosses Incompetent, Staffers Write

    Critical Report Appears on Own Websites USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’ From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens…

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    Anne Branigin

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    ‘Street Talk’ From Huckabee Sanders?

    Ryan Offended by ‘You Don’t Know Much About Me’ Coates: I Didn’t Have the Luxury of Avoiding Racists Camille Cosby: Media Too Easily Believed Accusers Reporters Link Some White Nationalists to Military Hostility Toward Press Found Worsening in U.S. Pair Create Positive Space for Black Millennials Coping Advice Offered for Career Women of Color Sun-Times…

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    Angela Helm

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