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It was only a week ago that a fictitious story about mega-church pastor Creflo Dollar endorsing Donald Trump went viral.
[READ: Anatomy of A Rumor: Creflo Dollar is NOT Endorsing Donald Trump + How the Tale Started… ]
While Dollar’s endorsement has been proven to be a hoax, a new report about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s niece is in fact factual and she’s actually doing interviews about her political stance.
More details + watch full interview below… Continue Reading…
NEWSFLASH!! Atlanta based CNN (Cable News Network) routinely passes over black employees and denies them on-the-job training… at least according to producer Ricky Blalock.
Blalock makes his claims against the Time-Warner owned network in a $500,000 racial-discrimination lawsuit filed last week and his action marks the second such legal action against CNN in just over a year.
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CNN anchor Don Lemon was the target of an angry heckler yesterday as he was covering the church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina.
[READ: MUGSHOT MANIA: Dylann Storm Roof aka The ‘Charleston Shooting’ THUG…]
During a live CNN segment, an angry Black woman heckled Lemon and co-host John Berman, calling both Lemon and President Barack Obama “Uncle Toms” and referring to the POTUS as a ‘puppet’.
“Are you angry Don? Are you angry? We’re mad, we’re angry — tell the truth!” says the woman, who walked up behind the newscasters.
“White people are terrorists!”
Lemon tried to diffuse the situation when he was introduced, saying the hosts were also joined by “a friend,” but then he eventually decided to just ignore the woman’s taunts.
“Terrorists! The president’s a puppet!” the woman continued. “Stop the lies, stop the lies. He’s an Uncle Tom too. President Obama’s an Uncle Tom too.”
“Black folks, get off your knees and start praying… STOP praying.” she said.
MSNBC has officially issued an apology for what they call an ‘ill-advised’ Cinco de Mayo segment.
Thomas Roberts, the anchor of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early” show, apologized Tuesday for references made about Mexicans and Cinco de Mayo.
[FLASHBACK: CNN’s Don Lemon Asks, ‘What’s a ‘THUG’?’ (VIDEO)]
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Last week I had the pleasure of attending a CNN Dialogues event held at The Ray Charles Performing Arts Center of Morehouse College in Atlanta (October 12, 2011).
CNN, the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference of Emory University, and the National Center For Civil and Human Rights, partnered for the second version of the series designed to provoke thought and dialogue on various subjects.
The topic of the evening? “Living in the Age of Social Media – the Good, the Bad, and the Surprising.”
Since I consider myself somewhat of a “social media strategist,” it piqued my interest to hear what others felt on a subject that I hold so near and dear to my heart.
CNN anchor Don Lemon facilitated a dynamic discussion on the subject of social media between the following four social media-savvy panelists:
Maggie Jackson, journalist and author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention & the Coming Dark Age (2008)
Shaun King a self-described ‘techie-humanitarian’ who is founder of Courageous Church, as well as the founder of the social media humanitarian aid site, TwitChange
Baratunde Thurston, comedian, co-founder of Jack & Jill Politics (a blog targeting politically-minded African-Americans), and director of digital for The Onion (a multi-media platform for satirical news and information)
Pete Wentz, musician and lyricist for the rock band, Fall Out Boy, record label manager, and co-founder of the group Black Cards.
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed my live blog from the event, but if you missed all that, check out a recap of CNN Dialogues: “Living in the Age of Social Media”… Continue Reading…
Chris Brown released a statement regarding the 30 second snippet of his upcoming Larry King LIVE interview that was released recently. In that interview, Chris is asked if he remembers beating Rihanna and he says “No,” well now he has admitted he lied on his memory:
“There have been reports on the internet that I didn’t remember what happened that night with Rihanna. I want to try and set things straight.
That 30 seconds of the interview they used of me was taken from a one hour interview during which that same question was asked something like 4 or 5 times — and when you look at the entire interview you will see it is not representative of what I said.
The first four times – or how ever many times it was – I gave the same answer — which was that I didn’t think it was appropriate for me to talk about what happened that night. I said it was not right for me and it really wasn’t fair to Rihanna. The fifth time – or whatever it was – I just misspoke. I was asked, “Do you remember doing it?” and I said, “No.”
Of course I remember what happened. Several times during the interview, my mother said that I came to her right afterwards and told her everything. But it was and still is a blur. And yes, I still can’t believe it happened because it is not me or who I am or is what happened like anything I have ever done before.
As I have said several times previously, I am ashamed of and sorry for what happened that night and I wish I could relive that moment and change things, but I can’t. I take full responsibility for my actions. What I have to do now is to prove to the world that this was an isolated incident and that is not who I am and I intend to do so by my behavior now and in the future.”
Another snippet of the upcoming interview under the cut: Continue Reading…
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