September 2009
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Tonight at The Black Snob’s Forum there will be a Live Chat on the President’s joint address to congress and the premiere of America’s Next Top Model. (8 p.m. Eastern; 7 p.m. Central Time Zone) Yes. We are watching both and commenting on both at the same time. Why? Because one is good for your
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Hot Topics is the deep fried Twinkie of news coverage! We ain’t no good, girl! Fine. She put on a dress. Did that solve it? In the case of runner Caster Semenya the answer is probably no. Another season of Saturday Night Live and no new black folks for the show. Just more perky white
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Tyra Banks let go of her weave and revealed to the world her real hair for the first time in an eternity it seems. The results were … well. She has hair and it grew out of her head. This is a big deal why again? Oh yeah. Black women. Hair traumas. The impossible beauty
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Some interesante news in the world of black media! Former long time Vibe editor and writer Danyel Smith has been named the new managing editor of the Washington Post-based Web site The Root! Congratulations to Danyel to landing the new gig! I love her writing and loved her work at Vibe, especially in the 1990s…
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Remember when Jon Stewart killed Crossfire? Good times. Well, it seems like the folks at CNN didn’t get the joke or point of that devastating exchange. They’re in the midst of casting a new “Hannity & Colmes” style show that is a roundtable dog fight between Liberals and Conservatives. I know, I know. That’s totally…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYMUCuodv4&hl=en&fs=1&] Ooo! Ooo! Good dirt. I haven’t found any good dirt worth writing about in AGES. Especially about my loathed BET. Seems someone got fired/let go/kicked to the curb and decided to fire off the email of the ages — and the threaten to write a book — about the mess that is BET.…
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She could have done a print mag but she crunched the numbers. Online is where it’s at. From WWD: Tyra Banks has produced a reality TV show about a fashion magazine, and now she’s launching a fashion title of her own. The former model-turned-media personality is taking her brand into the online publishing world with
Live Your Best Life. 