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Who Really Has the Right Journalistic Perspective on Africa?
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Ben Edokpayi/The Times Senior Contributing Editor In the dying days of 2014 during the Nigerian presidential elections, and as I worked on a column for a Nigerian news magazine – Tell – I had read an inflammatory dispatch by Reuters on the […]
Why this trial was different: Experts react to guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Scholars analyze the guilty verdicts handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Outside the courthouse, crowds cheered and church bells sounded – a collective release in a city scarred by police killings. Minnesota’s attorney general, whose […]
Court TV Records Highest Viewership For The George Floyd Verdict
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Court TV viewing peaked April 20 between 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET – during which time the verdicts were read – at 402K viewers 2+. Court TV was ranked in the top 15 ahead of such networks as ID, ESPN, TBS, TNT, FX, Discovery Channel […]
French President Macron Chimes in on racism on both sides of the Atlantic
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The United States and Europe are both facing “common challenges, arrays of inequalities,” and “tensions” within their societies when it comes to racism, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a recent interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program that aired April 25. And […]
Leading US Black Bank Announces Financial Literacy Youth Contest
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email Students from across the country between the ages of 8 and 12 are encouraged to read a financial literacy book of their choosing, and either write a 250-word essay or create an art project to show how they would apply what they learned […]