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Bryan Monroe to Lead CNN Online Politics Team
Ex-Knight-Ridder, Johnson Publishing Exec Moves to D.C. Bryan Monroe, former news executive at the defunct Knight Ridder and at Johnson Publishing Co., has joined CNN as editor of CNNPolitics.com, CNN announced on Monday. Monroe told Journal-isms he considered it his “dream job” and had started on Monday. “In this newly created role, Monroe will lead…
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Most Memorable Award-Show Moments
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer earned a standing ovation for his attempt to do the Dougie at the 2010 Soul Train Awards. The dance’s namesake, Doug E. Fresh, joined The Situation Room host onstage for a little bit of encouragement. Michael Jackson died just days before the 2009 BET Awards aired; many people complained about the…
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Tavis Smiley Comes to Washington
Tavis Smiley is unabashed about bringing his controversial road show to President Obama’s turf. The talk show host, a persistent critic of the president, has been an advocate of a “black agenda” that would focus federal resources directly on issues that affect black America. Next week Smiley will preside over a three-hour discussion in Washington,…
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More than the Queen of Soul
If one were to do a search using only the word “soul,” there is a strong possibility that the searcher in question might encounter instructions to “see Aretha Franklin.” Her ethereal essence, in equal measures cultural and spiritual, only begins to define the everlasting contributions of this nation’s dearly departed music royalty, otherwise known as…
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Good News for Juan Williams, Star Jones
Juan Williams Signs Contract for Two-Book Deal “Since his contract as a senior news analyst at NPR was terminated in October, Juan Williams has found no shortage of platforms from which he can express himself,” Dave Itzkoff wrote Tuesday in the New York Times. “In addition to the new contract he signed with the Fox…
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Logo's 'The A-List': A Symbol of Gay Apartheid?
Like many American gay men, I’ve got a little secret — and it’s called The A-List New York. Currently showing on Viacom’s LGBT-focused network, Logo, this same-sex send-up of Bravo’s hit Real Housewives franchise charts the high-drama antics of six gay New Yorkers working in fashion, media and modeling. The A-Listers, like the real Real…
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White Robber Fools Cops With Black Disguise
We all know that black men have been so identified with crime in the public mind that white perpetrators have successfully cried “the black man did it” and sent authorities looking for African American suspects. But a case from Cincinnati has them topped. “A white man who pleaded guilty to six robberies in Ohio used…
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Obama Pardons Reformed Moonshiner, 8 Others
President Barack Obama issued the first pardons of his presidency today, all for relatively minor offenses. Clearly he’s playing it safe, because six of the nine people didn’t even go to prison. One of them, Georgian Russell Dixon, was caught making moonshine 50 years ago. The pardoned people are: • James Bernard Banks, Liberty, Utah.…
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Still Down With Our Communities? Meh
There was a time when blacks were so closely tied to their communities that adult neighbors were almost like a second set of parents to children. From hulking high-rise housing projects in Detroit to single-story houses on tree-lined streets in Gary, Ind., neighbors would inform parents what time a child arrived home from school and…
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Single-Minded: Takeout on Thanksgiving
I ate lukewarm Thai food for Thanksgiving. The original plan was to fly home to Los Angeles — a place I haven’t lived in since the ’90s but will always refer to as “home.” Expedia.com, however, made it painfully obvious that eating for one day would replace eating for the rest of the month. So…