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Protests Quash 'All My Babies' Mamas'
“Author Sabrina Lamb was looking forward to kicking off her New Year with a bottle of champagne and a quiet walk on the beach. Instead, on the first day of January she was greeted with a video link from a friend of a brand-new reality show that sent chills down her spine,” Allison Samuels wrote…
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100 Years of Sisterhood, Captured in a Night
(The Root) — I wasn’t entirely sure it would be worth all the fuss. It was a half hour before midnight on Sunday, and a surprise fog had dimmed the neighborhood’s streetlights to spooky. Recovering on the couch after a hard day of being out seemed like the smart thing to do. Did we really…
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MSNBC Makes Gains With Black Audience
MSNBC “. . . enjoyed significant (around 20%) ratings increases across the board” in 2012, “but made astonishing gains with their already-large African American audience, growing that audience by 60.5% for the Mon-Sun 8pm-11pm period,” Tommy Christopher reported Monday for Mediaite. “MSNBC President Phil Griffin told me, in a phone interview, that he is ‘thrilled’…
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'Scandal' Fans: Guilty by Association?
(The Root) — I love Scandal. The storylines are incredibly addictive; the show has a great blend of humor and drama; and the chemistry between Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope and Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant (Tony Goldwyn), the married love of Olivia’s life — and president of the United States — is crazy. However, since the ABC…
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Black Writers' Varying Views of 'Django'
“Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ has become embroiled in the second major controversy of awards season,” Steve Pond wrote Wednesday for the Wrap. “The director’s liberal use of the N-word, and his temerity in tackling the issue of slavery, has drawn fire from some prominent African-Americans and impassioned defenses from others. “Like the turmoil stirred up…
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Were Rob Parker's Racial Comments Right?
(The Root) — Though the Washington Redskins captured the NFC East title for the first time since 1999 after defeating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night, it’s still hard to forget the recent media firestorm centered on the winning team’s star African-American rookie quarterback, Robert Griffin III. During a December broadcast of ESPN’s First Take,…
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NRA: Inspired by Black Panthers?
The National Rifle Association was inspired by the Black Panthers? Yes, according to Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA School of Law and author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.” Winkler said over the weekend on NPR’s “On the Media”: “One of the surprising things I…
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ESPN Suspends Rob Parker for 30 Days
Others Disciplined, “Oversight” of “First Take” Pledged ESPN announced Thursday that it is suspending commentator Rob Parker for 30 days over his on-air remarks about Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, tightening editorial oversight of the “First Take” show and taking “appropriate disciplinary measures” against employees who played a role in allowing Parker’s remarks on…
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Tim Scott Doesn't Represent Black Progress
Adolph L. Reed Jr. argues at the New York Times that excitement over South Carolina’s newest senator doesn’t change the fact that modern black Republicans tend to be tokens rather than signs of real progress. WHEN Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina announced on Monday that she would name Representative Tim Scott to the Senate,…
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Newtown: Intersection of Thorny Issues
“There’s been a lot of talk about media in the wake of the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., as the world struggles to understand something that may be beyond rational thought,” media critic Eric Deggans wrote Monday in the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times. “Big picture-wise, I think America is experiencing…