The Truth in Black and White

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"Why isn't there a white journalists association?" she asked.

"As disturbing as these findings are, in one sense it's surprising they are not actually worse," Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a coalition of 200 groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and National Urban League, told The Associated Press. "Most African Americans believe the government response to problems is one of benign neglect rather than forceful action."

"Overall, incomes are going up. But not all children are benefiting equally from the American dream," Julia Isaacs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, told the AP.

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The Truth in Black and White

I vividly remember a heated discussion had with a white colleague at a mainstream newspaper many years ago about a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists.

She apparently felt left out of our "little" confab, which is designed to i...

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