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Featured A Monthly Ebony Unlikely to Return

richardJuly 13, 2020July 16, 2020

by richardJuly 13, 2020July 16, 202006875

The new chair of the company that owns Ebony magazine says "print, in all likelihood, will not come back,...

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Featured Ebony’s Parent Company Ousts CEO

richardJuly 5, 2020July 13, 2020

by richardJuly 5, 2020July 13, 202009783

The board of directors of the company that owns Ebony magazine ousts its CEO,...

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Featured Why This Journalist’s Death Shouldn’t Be in Vain

richardJuly 2, 2020July 6, 2020

by richardJuly 2, 2020July 6, 202008066

When Journal-isms reported the autopsy results in the death of Washington Post reporter Darran Simon, it was never imagined ohat that would be the only...

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Essence to Ask ‘Experts’ to Examine Charges

richardJuly 1, 2020July 2, 2020

by richardJuly 1, 2020July 2, 202003394

Essence Communications responds to scathing allegations of corporate misconduct and sexual misbehavior...

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N.Y. Times to Capitalize ‘B’ in ‘Black’

richardJune 30, 2020June 30, 2020

by richardJune 30, 2020June 30, 202006943

The New York Times announced that it will join the growing list of news organizations capitalizing the "B" in "black"...

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Featured A Racist President Swept Up in the Reckoning

richardJune 28, 2020June 30, 2020

by richardJune 28, 2020June 30, 202008569

Princeton University trustees voted to remove the name of Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school, a fitting coda to one of the most explosive...

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Suicide Ruled in Death of Darran Simon

richardJune 25, 2020June 26, 2020

by richardJune 25, 2020June 26, 202007979

Darran Simon, whose death at 43 in April stunned his Washington Post colleagues and those at his previous workplaces, died of suicide by hanging,...

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Featured AP Catches Wave Capitalizing ‘Black’

richardJune 21, 2020June 28, 2020

by richardJune 21, 2020June 28, 202008909

The news media's racial reckoning took an intense and extraordinary turn this week....

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Featured A Late-Night Ride in a D.C. Police Van

richardJune 19, 2020December 31, 2020

by richardJune 19, 2020December 31, 202008859

The consequences of driving while your license is still at home....

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Featured Racial Reckoning Here, Ready or Not

richardJune 12, 2020June 19, 2020

by richardJune 12, 2020June 19, 202007792

The national reckoning that is following the police killing of George Floyd is having an unprecedented effect on the news media...

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Featured Racial Clamors Force Changes in Philly, N.Y.

richardJune 7, 2020June 12, 2020

by richardJune 7, 2020June 12, 2020012890

Philadelphia Inquirer's top editor resigns;; one editor out, 2nd moved at N.Y. Times...

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Featured Why Prisons Deserve More Coverage

richardJune 7, 2020June 8, 2020

by richardJune 7, 2020June 8, 202004976

Our speakers raised a more deadly reason to pay attention to our prisoners: COVID-19....