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Charles Fountain
Associate Professor of Journalism

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The Christian Science Monitor

Why a KKK newspaper is backing Donald Trump

“What is different about the here-and-now is the impact that those editorials have,” Charles Fountain, an associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, previously told The Christian Science Monitor. “Those editorials would have had a profound influence on voting habits 100 years ago, maybe even 50 or 60 years ago, but today they move the […]
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Why Shoeless Joe Jackson is better off banned from baseball

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. There was a moment this week when the legions of Shoeless Joe Jackson fans who have long worked for his reinstatement by Major League Baseball had a flutter […]
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George Frazier’€™s duende

THE ECHOES grow ever more faint as we move ever farther from their source. George Frazier has been gone for 37 years, and we don’t hear as much about him anymore.

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