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Black Icons Shun the Black Press | The Washington Informer
“Let me take the message to my people in the Black community and you take the message to the white community and, if it works out, we’ll meet.” – Bobby Rush
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‘The Black Writing Community Is Very Small’ | The Atlantic
The writer Ashley C. Ford and her mentor, Roxane Gay, discuss the professional advice they’ve gotten and how to cope with criticism.
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Jim Vance, Washington’s longest-serving local news anchor, is dead at 75 | The Washington Post
In a city of news junkies and scores of high-profile figures in politics and the media, the most-watched journalist in Washington may well have been Jim Vance. For more than 45 years at WRC-TV (Channel 4), he was the region’s longest-serving television news anchor. He presided over the area’s top-rated newscasts and became a public figure in his own right. He gained broad sympathy for his openness about his struggles with drugs and depression.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Alice Allison Dunnigan | Black America Web
Alice Allison Dunnigan blazed trials for future White House Correspondents like April D. Ryan when she became the first Black woman named in that role in 1948. Dunnigan is also the first Black woman reporter to gain credentials to the press galleries of the U.S. Congress, and also the first Black woman to be elected to the Women’s National Press Club.
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EBONY’s New Owners Set Sights on Expansion – Ebony Magazine
The two partners behind the newly formed Ebony Media say the company is just right for creating a new space in the multimedia landscape
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Gwen Ifill, Journalist and Debate Moderator, Dies at 61
Gwen Ifill, an award-winning television journalist for NBC and PBS, former reporter for The New York Times and author who moderated vice-presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died on Monday in Washington. She was 61.
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Black as We Wanna Be
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
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A C-SPAN caller asked a black guest how to stop being prejudiced. Here’s how she responded.
While a guest on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Aug. 18, a caller told public-policy organizer Heather McGhee he was a prejudiced white man, but he wanted to know what he could do about it. This is what she said. (C-SPAN)
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Discover The Unexpected (DTU) Coverage: Enhancing Black Owned Print and Digital Press In the Age of Social Media
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes the career development success of the Discover the Unexpected (DTU) NNPA Journalism Fellowship program that has just completed its first term of providing undergraduate students at the Howard University School of Communication the unique apprentice opportunity to work at NNPA member newspapers in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and Detroit.
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