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CNN devoted significant time recently to profiling the St. Louis police officer who shoved their host Don Lemon on camera. It appears that, after the…

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  Rapper Talib Kweli has been marching among protesters in Ferguson, Mo. , so he had a few choice words for Don Lemon about his…

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It’s pretty well documented that Don Lemon is against the use of the “n-word.” In fact, he’s described it as one of the five things…

Jesse Williams is one of few entertainers who is lending their voice to speak about Michael Brown’s shooting by police and the aftermath of the…

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During this year’s Annual Rainbow Push Coalition Conference, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. reminded attendees and members of the black press that black stories matter. He stressed that, if the…

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As admirable as it is to pretend that if we just ignore George Zimmerman and his pathetic attempts at turning the infamy he gained from…

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Former NBA player Dennis Rodman has apologized for a bizarre interview during which he screamed at CNN’s Chris Cuomo, slurred his words throughout and made…

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Ever since CNN anchor Don Lemon (pictured) decided to start editorializing, he has not shown himself to be a serious thinker. Lemon has developed a…

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PLAY AUDIODon’t shed any tears for Soledad O’Brien. The former CNN jack of all trades who covered nearly every human tragedy and big news story during her tenure there has moved on to new challenges. O’Brien will continue producing the “Black In America” series for CNN Docs through her production company which will also be […]

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  During the coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing,  it became sort of a syndrome when covering the story: premature news reporting from “reliable sources” that got it really wrong.  In fact, trying to be first over getting it right caused plenty of embarassment for CNN anchor John King and the entire network.  One is […]

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Another one bites the dust. Roland Martin is now the latest political commentator to leave CNN. Today,  the author, journalist and TV host announced to his nearly 200,000 Twitter followers that he will be leaving the network next month. After one of Martin’s Twitter followers wrote, “Roland I am really missing not hearing your view point […]

Politics

A gun advocate stirred up the pot, last week on TV, saying that if blacks were given the “right to keep and bear arms” since the country’s inception, “perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.” Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day (Jan 19), told CNN in a panel discussion, “The […]