MediaSnob
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My grandmother embraces my cousin DeShawn as he becomes the first man in my mother’s family to graduate from college.A few people have asked me if I had the power, money and time, what would my version of CNN’s “Black In America” look like. As everyone already knows, I was somewhat disappointed in the series…
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Or cash, whatever works. From Folio: Less than a month after Vibe announced that it was going out of business, an angry subscriber this week filed a federal lawsuit claiming breach of contract. The reader, Enterprise, Alabama resident Kenneth Rogers, reportedly purchased a one-year subscription to Vibe three months before it folded. Rogers is petitioning
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From Galleycat: Essence reports that Michigan-born novelist E. Lynn Harris has died, leaving behind eleven novels about the African American gay community. Before his writing career, Harris studied at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he reportedly served as the first black yearbook editor and the first black male Razorbacks cheerleader. He self-published his
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From the New York Times‘ Arts Beat: For months, fans of Wendy Williams have wondered how the boisterous broadcaster would handle the demands of hosting a radio program and a television talk show. Now they have their answer: on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams said that she would leave her daily radio show, “The Wendy Williams
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It could be argued that no matter what CNN produced for Black In America 2 there would be gripes. There would be complaints about quality and whether or not the documentary was “for us, by us” or “for them, by them.” There was going to be hell no matter what. Still, that didn’t quite prepare
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Roland Martin of CNN and Chris Matthews of MSNBC took to the airwaves with the same mission: to kill the “birther” argument over whether or not President Obama is a citizen of the United States. How did they do? Well, the results were mixed. While Lou Dobbs was a wily, slippery, recalcitrant foe for my…
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I can’t say that I loved it. I can’t say that I hated it. I believe I am solidly apathetic towards Soledad O’Brien’s latest installment for her “Black In America” series. More after the jump.
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