If you wanted to see clearly into how all the various components of the modern media ecosystem interact, you could not come up with a better real-time experiment than the Donald Sterling story.
Mr. Stone was a passionate voice against racism, police brutality and political corruption, with credibility at both the statehouse and street levels.
Antiracism groups said that a Belgian newspaper’s images depicting the president and his wife as apes pointed to a normalization of hateful political speech in Europe.
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A sequel will run during the Super Bowl to a Cheerios ad that received an unanticipated quantity of baldly racist online condemnation for the interracial family at its heart.
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Mr. Grant, long a dominant voice on the airwaves, took advantage of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and thrived on the radio despite racist remarks.
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The movie industry is waiting to see if “12 Years a Slave,” a story focusing on an African-American, can garner a global audience.
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Nuance doesn’t do well on cable, so a topic as fraught as race often ends up being covered in cartoonish ways during signal events like the death of Trayvon Martin.
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Dora Charles, who lives in an aging trailer home on the outskirts of Savannah, said Paula Deen held out the promise that together, they might get rich one day.
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Mr. Dotson led The Akron Beacon Journal to a Pulitzer Prize for a series on race relations.
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The strong reaction to Paula Deen’s use of a racial slur reflects a simple truth: race remains one of the most difficult conversations to have in America.
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Among other topics, Mr. Miles, who specialized in unearthing lost material about forgotten subjects, made films about the history of Harlem and a black regiment that fought in World War I.
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The race, ethnicity and culture reporting in NPR’s series “Changing Races” is part of the network’s strategy to “do better about mirroring America,” the chief executive says.
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Philadelphia Magazine’s article “Being White in Philly” provoked a rebuke from the mayor, angry comments and the threat of a boycott, as well as a sales bump.
A Bloomberg Businessweek magazine cover published this week about the housing rebound in the United States — featuring cartoonish minorities holding fistfuls of money — has drawn intense criticism from readers and critics of the news media.
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