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Slash of Guns N’ Roses Was My Junior High Crush
Did you know Slash was biracial? Journalist Kristal Brent Zook shares a sweet memory, adapted from her new memoir, “The Girl in the Yellow Poncho.”
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Can The Black Church Return After Covid?
Our special report on how churches took action to serve their flocks in the wake of a devastating pandemic.
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Steve Harvey: TV Relationship Guru?
Comedian Steve Harvey, who has made Family Feud the fastest-growing program in syndication, recently shot a pilot in Stamford, Conn., for his own syndicated daytime talk show to debut in late 2012. If sold, NBC Universal Television would distribute the show, which would be produced by Harvey and his longtime business partner Rushion McDonald. It…
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Unearthing Black History in Central Park
The William Godfrey Wilson home site. Wilson lived here with his wife and eight children. Bricks line the footprint of the stone foundation, and Madeline Landry provides scale inside one of the test cuts. Artifacts excavated from the house of William Godfrey Wilson (clockwise from top left): a bone toothbrush handle, a piece of a…
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Has Reality TV Become Black Women's Enemy?
Remember the ”real” housewife named Sheree? Whose only claim to fame is that she was once married to a professional football player? Remember how she yanked housewife Kim’s blond wig and called her white trash outside of a fashionable Atlanta restaurant? (Kim, the sole Caucasian Atlanta ”housewife” whose married lover’s checks allows her to pay…
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Death of Black Radio
Black radio was once among the most influential engines of political and economic power for African Americans. Today it remains an important source of news and inspiration for black audiences. But thanks to new ratings technology being introduced this week, black-owned radio may be embarking on a fierce fight for its very survival. For decades,…
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A Dying Breed
Ragan Henry, a little-known African-American pioneer in media ownership who quietly amassed a small empire of 60 television and radio stations between the early 1970s and 1990, died late last month in Philadelphia with as little fanfare as he had lived. He was 74. Henry’s death should be an item of conversation for anyone who…
