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While minority journalists view the historic election of the U.S.’s first Black president as a positive step for race relations, many believe that their own industry has fallen down on the job in its coverage of race relations, according to the 2010 Journalism in Color Survey on Race and the Media.

From CNN: Washington — President Obama is likely to lay out a political road map Wednesday for passage of sweeping health care legislation, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday.

Have you experienced similar thoughtless insensitive treatment at your campus? Tell us about it and click here to read more about incidents of racism on college campuses across this country. Be sure to contact your campus’ minority affairs office if such an incident occurs and you need help. -NewsOne Staff From HuffingtonPost.com: The woman who […]

You would think that a professor teaching a class of diverse students might have a bit more prudence and sensitivity when using charged words like the N-word, in whatever context he may have meant it. Do you think this professor is racist or just misunderstood? Click here to read about professor actually fueled by racism. […]

From the NY Times: ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson personally directed two state employees to contact the woman who had accused his close aide of assaulting her, according to two people with direct knowledge of the governor’s actions.

From the NY Times: Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman who has sought to parlay his star power and Wall Street connections into a political career in New York, has decided not to challenge Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the Democratic primary this September.

D.C.’s Mayor Fenty is commonly thought of as part of a “new generation” of Black politicians that includes men like Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker, former Tenn. congressman and N.Y. Senate hopeful Harold Ford, Jr., and President Barack Obama.

There seems to be no shortage of horrific stories about neglected and abused children across this nation. After today’s heart-breaking news that the mother previously charged in the murder of Shaniya Davis, her 5 year-old daughter, was released, NewsOne is committed to telling the stories the mainstream news suppresses. To learn more about child abuse […]

For weeks now I have sat back and watched how many people in the media have used different code words when describing the president and many issues involving African people.