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Roseanne Barr Says Valerie Jarrett Is the Result of ‘Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes’

Updated: Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 10:42 a.m. EDT: Of course Roseanne Barr issued an apology after yet another show of her racist slip, and wanted people to know that it was just a joke, just like the status of her career. Earlier: Roseanne Barr took time off from attacking Barack Obama on Twitter and took…

By

Yesha Callahan

Published

May 29, 2018
They Said It Was Private. She Said It Was on-the-Record. The Reality? It’s Complicated

In the nine years of BET Networks’ Leading Women Defined summit, Jeanine Liburd, chief marketing and communications officer at BET, had never seen anything like this. A journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, was booted from this conference, a first for the gathering of professional women. These women, about 150…

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Danielle C. Belton

Published

March 23, 2018
Valerie Jarrett, Top Adviser to Obama, Signs Book Deal

Valerie Jarrett, the most trusted woman in former President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, has signed a book deal. The former White House senior adviser’s untitled book is expected to combine personal history and civic advice. “From her work on ensuring equity for women and girls, protecting civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system and protecting working…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

July 11, 2017
News

Omarosa Manigault Is in Donald Trump's Army, but Who Is She Fighting For?

On Tuesday, a typical, but no less still unnecessarily combative, Omarosa Manigault spoke with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts about her role in the orgy of audacious idiocy and political amateurism known as the Donald J. Trump for President campaign. As Omarosa spoke very seriously about an unserious person, I noticed that she was listed as the…

By

Michael Arceneaux

Published

June 22, 2016