- Black Journalists Question Plans by MSNBC to Hire Al Sharpton
- Pointing out that he and MSNBC have not yet consummated a deal, the Rev. Al Sharpton responded to black journalists questioning his credentials for an MSNBC hosting gig in an exclusive interview with The Root.
- Sharpton emphatically stated that he is an advocate, not a journalist. If he accepts the offer, he said, it would be in that role. The format under consideration at MSNBC is not for news but for opinions and advocacy, he said.
- Murdoch: A Unified Theory of Sleeze
- [This] might be the largest criminal enterprise ever involving a journalistic institution. The ripples threaten to become a tidal wave: 10 arrests so far, the resignation of England’s top cop, more resignations and one death (maybe coincidental) among senior and former News Corp. officials, the abrupt shutdown of a 160-year-old tabloid, an FBI probe into Murdoch practices in the U.S. and a Conservative government in Britain so damaged that its survival is a serious topic of discussion.
- Ronald Reagan: Debt Ceiling? Raise Taxes
- Faced with a debt ceiling, the Gipper would do the right thing: raise taxes.
- The New British Soul Invasion
- Step aside, American R&B singers. British imports — think Adele, V.V. Brown and Sharlene Hector — are taking over. Check out our who’s who of soul singers from across the pond.
- NAACP Convention 2011 Los Angeles: Man on the Street
- We asked attendees of the gathering in Los Angeles (July 23-28) about the NAACPs relevance, modern civil rights issues and Barack Obama.
- Debt-Ceiling Talks Last 50 Minutes
- …waiting on a debt deal is starting to feel like waiting for Godot.
- Republicans: Gaining Ground Among White Voters
- In three years, the GOP has made a 6 percent gain among non-Hispanic whites, with 52 percent now identifying as Republican. New York Times columnist Charles Blow point out that the greatest gains have been made among the poorest (10 percent), youngest (10 percent) and least educated (8 percent).
- Malcolm X Assassination: No New Investigation
- The best-selling and controversial biography of Malcolm X by the late Manning Marable renewed long-standing questions about whether the right men were convicted of the murder of the civil rights leader in 1965. But those who hoped for a new probe were sorely disappointed Saturday when a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department said that the government had no intention of reopening the investigation. The spokesman said the statute of limitations had expired on the federal laws that might apply to the case…
- Harlem Sewage Plant Has Ugly Racial History
- Last week’s fire at New York City’s North River Wastewater Treatment Plant and subsequent sewage spill highlights just one of a vast number of reasons no one wanted it built in Harlem in the first place.
- …discharging millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the Hudson River…
- Harlem Renaissance: Gay Authors
- In the last few decades, a number of authors and filmmakers have revised the revisionist history of the period and unlocked history’s closet. The book Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (2003), by A.B. Christa Schwarz, puts the life and work of Cullen, McKay, Nugent and Hughes in an LGBT context.
- Petition: Cobb County GA: Release Grieving Mother of Hit-and-Run
- Raquel Nelson of metro Atlanta faces up to 3 years in jail [for vehicular manslaughter] after her child broke from her side and ran in front of a driver who may have been impaired. It was outrageous that a jury convicted her. It is more outrageous that the Solicitor prosecuted her to begin with.
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