A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to […] The post Gayle King's on-air fixation on holdout juror's race raises uncomfortable questions about media priorities appeared first on American Almanac .
A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to join the other eleven had been the only Black person on the panel. King, 71, stopped the conversation cold. "A black man is the holdout juror?" she asked. Then: "Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second." The moment, captured on video and posted to the show's official X account, drew immediate backlash from conservative commentators who said King's reaction laid bare a set of assumptions about how a…Open
The funniest thing you’ll see all week is the moment CBS Mornings content creator Gayle King found out the lone juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial who wouldn’t vote to acquit, resulting in a mistrial, was a black man. She nearly needed smelling salts. In an interview Friday, Paula Devlin, one of the witches on […]
Four weeks after Latarsha Sanders was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences for killing her 5-year-old and 8-year-old sons in Brockton, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children in nearby Duxbury, Massachusetts. CNN’s Laura Coates examines how Sanders’ case, which broadly resembles Clancy’s, is raising questions about the intersection of race and mental illness in the criminal justice system.
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, are warning that the institution's promotion of political issues involving race, gender, sexuality, environmental change and immigration diverts from its mission of being a steward of American history and culture.
