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14-year-old Elizabeth Smart and her family captured the world’s attention when she was kidnapped from her bedroom in 2002, tied to a tree and raped repeatedly during her captivity. In 2003, she was found walking down a street with her kidnappers – a mere 5 miles from her home. (One…
Deputy Washington Editor for The New York Times Jonathan Weisman has been demoted – but not fired – after he ignited fury on Twitter for racist tweets. In late July, Weisman deleted a tweet after he suggested Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were not truly from the Midwest and their colleague…
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on his show Tuesday that white supremacy is a “hoax” and not a major concern in the U.S. He’s faced intense backlash, but seemingly not from his network or advertisers, who have remained largely silent on the incident. His comments came just 72 hours…
CNN Anchor Victor Blackwell had an emotional response to President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking the district in Baltimore that he grew up in. On Saturday, Trump threw another Twitter temper tantrum. One of the people that he went after wasDemocratic Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a Black man who oversees the…
The hashtag #RacistPresident trended Monday morning in the wake of President Trump tweeting that the four freshman Democratic Congresswomen of color should “go back” to where they came from. All but one were born in the U.S. Often called “the squad,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Rashida Tlaib…
The Facebook video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is fake. It’s obvious. It was deliberately made to make Pelosi look drunk. It has been viewed about 2.6 million times. It has been viewed millions of times by now and YouTube acted fast and removed duplicates to stop the spread of…
Antoinette Love, a high school senior in New Orleans, has been accepted to 115 colleges and received more than $3.7 million in scholarship money. Love didn’t expect to hear back from so many of the colleges that she applied to. “At first I didn’t think I was going to get…
DiversityInc Chief Operating Officer Carolynn Johnson had a fireside chat with CNN anchor Don Lemon at the 2018 Top 50 Companies for Diversity event last May in New York City. Lemon talked about how being his authentic self transformed his life. He explained how important it was to be an…
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is calling for CNN to diversify its executive ranks, including executive news managers and direct reports to CNN President Jeff Zucker. NABJ stated this week that it is concerned about the findings of preliminary research, which points to a lack of diversity in top positions:…
We need a white homeland as Europe seems lost. By Frank Kineavy Authorities have arrested a 49-year old coast guard lieutenant plotting to conduct a mass killing. His hit list included prominent Democratic politicians as well as several journalists from CNN and MSNBC. According to CNN, Christopher Paul Hasson is…
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