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A Bag for HOPE raising thousands for homeless families

A Bag for HOPE raising thousands for homeless families

It started with two women sewing scraps of fabric in a living room. They had no idea what they were about to …

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For many Wilmington kids, summer is a struggle

For many Wilmington kids, summer is a struggle

For many kids, summer is a time spent with new friends at camp, hanging around a backyard pool or at the beac…

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Kinsey Collection: Life narrative of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Kinsey Collection: Life narrative of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

One of the few first-person slave narratives depicting the grim and gruesome life of a slave is "The Interest…

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FAMU grad trailblazing with new digital series

FAMU grad trailblazing with new digital series

Late one night while walking home in Los Angeles, James Bland found himself staring down the barrel of a gun,…

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Kinsey Collection: Charles White, 1943

Kinsey Collection: Charles White, 1943

EDITOR'S NOTE: Beginning today and continuing each day through Black History Month, the Tallahassee Democrat …

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Wilmington Urban Farm to be dedicated to late city councilman

Wilmington Urban Farm to be dedicated to late city councilman

The Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Farm will be renamed for Eric D. Robinson this Friday, in honor …

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Opinion | Journalism is serious business. That doesn’t mean it can’t be funny.

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By TyLisa Johnson Verified
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How will you learn that the world is ending? Maybe your phone buzzes with a news alert. Maybe you open Google News and see the headlines. But it’s also likely you sprint to social media and are met with a meme.
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Here are your favorite Poynter journalism memes from 2025

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By TyLisa Johnson Verified
| Poynter Online Verified
It’s a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from the nation’s most powerful people. At the same time, the work to share truth and report the news is needed now more than ever. It’s a nonstop grind, and a nearly nonstop news cycle. Well, as the saying goes, you have to laugh to keep from crying.
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When the White House press secretary says ‘your mom,’ it’s not a joke. It’s the message.

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By Ren LaForme Verified, Amaris Castillo Verified, TyLisa Johnson Verified
| Poynter Online Verified
This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Late last week, after President Donald Trump said he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine, HuffPost correspondent S.V. Dáte reached out to the White House with a straightforward question: Who picked Budapest?
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