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09.18.2009 11:05 am

What grade would you give the local media in covering race?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman asks his readers what grade they would give the media for the way we cover race relations in America? And we’re wondering what grade you’d give the local media in covering race?

In Friedman’s commentary leading up to that…

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09.16.2009 11:15 am

Debate continues over whether Wilson’s outburst was racially driven

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Colleague Doug Wong wondered in a blog post earlier this week if some members of the media were using the race card too much concerning criticism of President Barack Obama’s policies. Specifically, Moore noted Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York…

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04.15.2009 12:13 pm

Article examines reactions to biracial kiss, why this blog exists

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Why does A Conversation about Race exist?

Poynter, the media training center, tackles that question in an article today titled “Biracial Couple Photo Sparks Negative Comments on Post-Dispatch Blog.”

In her Diversity at Work blog on Poynter.orgMallary Jean Tenore examines the reactions to…

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03.05.2009 8:23 pm

Whites break down barriers to teaching black studies

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is the 40th anniversary of the beginning of African-American studies programs on the nation’s campuses. The Chicago Tribune takes a look at the irony of the challenges whites have faced in becoming teachers in the field. According to the Tribune…

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02.12.2009 6:33 pm

Writer on Native American affairs shares responses — good and bad

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What follows is a guest column from Jodi Rave, a national reporter and columnist who covers Native American issues for the Lee Enterprises newspaper chain, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Suburban Journals.
Ms. Rave wrote this column to share readers’…
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01.28.2009 11:51 am

No charges in hanging of Barack Obama effigy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Two men who hung an effigy of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on the University of Kentucky campus won’t face charges, the Associated Press reports.

The Kentucky case was perhaps the most publicized of a series of effigy hangings just…

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01.15.2009 10:50 am

So was that episode in Oakland a riot?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dori J. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. reflects on the … unrest, violence, protest, demonstration, riot, rebellion … last week in Oakland and wonders which, if any, of those words is appropriate.

A blog post…

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01.14.2009 10:31 am

Does it matter if White House reporters are black or white?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A debate of sorts has emerged over whether it matters that the group of reporters still assigned to covering the White House is mostly white.

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby says it doesn’t. In an article on boston.com, he says:

“Barack Obama will…

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01.12.2009 8:31 pm

Is it right to say the suspect is black? Or Latino? Or white?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From time to time, we get calls — or comments on online stories — asking why we didn’t identify the race of a crime suspect, particularly when police are seeking someone.

Whenever readers ask this, I am reminded of a seminar…

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