By Sabirah Mustafa - What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. It’s an ad slogan with some truth to it. People take the phrase seriously, shunning those who come back from Sin City with perpetually loose lips. I just came back from Vegas, with stories. I’m a storyteller. I like to talk. But the slogan gave me pause when deciding whether to share the details of my recent trip.
By Katherine Brown - When trying to identify what makes my neighborhood healthy, I was hard pressed to find glaring examples of what is traditionally associated with “healthy living.” There aren’t any farmers markets, open green spaces, bike lanes, etc. The street that I live on is residential and is pretty quiet, and in some instances, kind of boring.
By Debora Gordon - I drove down to visit Lam in the Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) the weekend of December 7ththrough December 10th. I checked in by phone and email with the Public Information Officer, Lt. Jeff Smith, to help plan my visit. I learned what I could bring into the prison with me during my visit: almost nothing except my identification and a plastic bag filled with quarters, if I wanted to treat Lam (or myself) to any of the vending machine foodstuff available in the visitation area.
By Debora Gordon - One of the coolest things happening in the Oakland Unified School District right now is the high tech mobile adult education classroom, an RV outfitted with Wi-Fi and laptops, driven by Teacher Don. The bus, which spends several weeks at about eight different elementary and middle schools around the district, is a hopeful note, in what has been a somewhat dismal prognosis for adult education throughout California for the last several years.
By Ronald Owens - Mass murders get some people all stirred up. TV news shows become obsessed and devote all their attention to the homicides and to peoples’ reactions to them. You go to work or to the supermarket and that’s all people are talking about. The President of the United States even breaks into national television programming to deliver a speech decrying violence and the use of guns to shoot innocent victims.
I had better not bury the lede: The sequester is going to rip apart higher education in Indian Country. It’s going to be ugly, folks, and worse, self-defeating. Haskell Indian Nations University is facing a budget cut that’s almost 30 percent. This is what “deep” spending cuts look like.
Now let’s explore the logical, make that the illogical, progression.
Antoine Sanfuentes Gains Increased Responsibilities
Jeff Zucker, then NBCUniversal's president and CEO, left; David Wilson, founder and managing editor of theGrio.com; Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, and Steve Capus, president of NBC News; at a 2010 breakfast after Morial appeared on "Today." (Credit: NBC)
Maynard Grad Is First Black Journalist to Assume the Title
Post's First Black Reporter Says It "Damn Near Killed" Him
Super Bowl Drew Huge Audience, but Not a Record
As Candidate, Geraldo Would Have to Quit Fox
Misreading Guns and the Civil Rights Movement
Ballentine's Lawyers Say He May Win Hollow Victory
By Debora Gordon - After my visit with Lt. Smith, I had some time to kill that Friday evening in Delano, California. While there may be more than meets the tourist eye, what the casual passer-through will see is mile after mile of strip malls and giant shopping complexes. The prison appears to the main industry there, except for retail and fast food.
By Howard Dyckoff - Food surrounds us in our daily lives. We share food at family and community events. But where do we get our food and how fresh is that food?
The Asian American Writers' Workshop is looking to hire an editor for Open City (http://opencitymag.com), our magazine of Asian American New York that’s been covered in the Wall Street Journal and NPR.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
Managing editor says new boss deserves own team (1/29/13); Obama sees media role in ending gridlock; Chicago mother loses all four kids to gun violence; ethnic media jointly urge immigration reform; does "rodent community" mean M.L. King admirers?; no date for return of T.J. Holmes'"Don't Sleep"; film on Oscar Grant shooting wins at Sundance; mainstream columnist bemoans black abortions; Iran arrests more than a dozen journalists. (1/28/13)
New CNN president plans to replace morning show; Famuan reappears with J-director's blast at critics; Univision viewers' immigration concern: Deportation; black-press chief says Obama campaign retaliated; network story count favored Romney over Obama; cartoonist denies "Mallard Fillmore" racism; interviewing prisoners of war can add to their abuse; war pushes Mali far down on press-freedom list (1/30/13).
Antoine Sanfuentes gains increased responsibilities (2/1/13); speculation on Soledad's fate; Famuan reappears with J-director's blast at critics; Univision viewers' immigration concern: Deportation; black-press chief says Obama campaign retaliated; network story count favored Romney over Obama; cartoonist denies "Mallard Fillmore" racism; interviewing prisoners of war can add to their abuse; war pushes Mali far down on press-freedom list (1/30/13).
Maynard grad is first black journalist to assume the title; Post's first black reporter says it "damn near killed" him; Super Bowl drew huge audience, but not a record; as candidate, Geraldo would have to quit Fox; misreading guns and the civil rights movement; Ballentine's lawyers say he may win hollow victory; Spanish-language paper sees pols'"canny politicking" (2/4/13)
Keith Clinkscales praises "strong voice at ESPN"; poll: Blacks trust Fox far less than other groups; Shirley Carswell leaving Washington Post after 25 years; U.S. black journalists join global news operation; Rep. Cardiss Collins, media diversity advocate, dies at 81; two-thirds don't pursue "pathway to citizenship"; blacks have used firearms for defense, survival; how diverse is your coverage of business, finance? (2/6/13)