October 2007
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Fox Host Blames Hip-Hop For Success Tech Shootings
Chris Richburg, AllHipHop.com Shades of Don Imus’s controversial radio scandal arose this week, as nationally syndicated Fox News host John Gibson placed the blame of a recent school shooting in Cleveland, Ohio on Hip-Hop culture. During a Wednesday (Oct. 10) broadcast of Gibson’s radio show the John Gibson Show, Gibson said he “knew” that the [...]
Stanley Crouch: BET’s ‘Gangster’ a public service
Stanley Crouch For all of the easily understood protests against Black Entertainment Television, or BET, for crude and vulgar programming, the second season of the station’s “American Gangster” is continuing a public service of stellar significance. By providing well-written and well-researched documentary work, each episode is quite important because it deglamorizes the sort of criminal [...]
Do Missing Black Women Matter?
Kevin Eason, EURweb.com When it comes to missing persons, the media has been consistent on two points. One, if the missing person is female, white and attractive by media standards, that case is going to get plenty of attention. There will be interviews with the victim’s family, friends, teachers, pastor, and family pet. There will [...]
The Crossroads of History: America’s Best Black Colleges
Diane Cole, U.S. News & World Report Tryan McMickens recalls the “huge blow” he felt when, as one of only a few dozen African-American students at a large, predominantly white public high school in suburban Atlanta, he heard his favorite teacher advise him not to even consider applying to a historically black college. “She told [...]
Sharpton Seeks an Apology Over Thomas’s Language
RICHARD SANDOMIR and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, New York Times Four days after Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas was held liable for sexual harassment, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday that Thomas must apologize if he felt there was a different standard between black and white men in using a derogatory term toward black women. In a [...]
