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  • Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors

    Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-15 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s note: Historian and author Tiya Miles is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Afroamerican and African…

  • When no one else looks like you

    When no one else looks like you Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-12-15 (CNN) – “Who is Black in America?” explores how color affects identity. In this video, Danielle Ayers, a biracial woman, discusses her search for identity and the challenges of being color blind after growing up…

  • CNN’s Who’s Black in America: Some Thoughts

    CNN’s Who’s Black in America: Some Thoughts Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-12-12 Michelle Clark-McCrary So here’s an audio journal with my reflections on last Sunday night’s CNN Who’s Black in America special. Ultimately, my view of this special and the entire series as a whole is that conversations about race cannot…

  • Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham

    Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham Project RACE 2012-12-10 Susan Graham, Executive Director CNN aired a show hosted by Soledad O’Brien Sunday called “Who is Black in America?” I have been disgusted with the public misunderstanding of multiracial people on so called news shows in the past, but this one wins the prize…

  • Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5

    Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5 The Huffington Post 2012-12-10 Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer Interactive One I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial…

  • Soledad O’Brien and three of the interview subjects from her docu discuss the fifth installment of CNN’s Black in America series

    Soledad O’Brien and three of the interview subjects from her docu discuss the fifth installment of CNN’s Black in America series Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-10 Soledad O’Brien, Host The fifth installment of CNN’s Black in America Series focused on the question, “Who is black in America?” That single, seemingly…

  • “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien” with Dr. Yaba Blay

    “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien” with Dr. Yaba Blay Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien Cable News Network (CNN) Monday, 2012-12-10, 12:00-14:00Z (07:00-09:00 EST) Soledad O’Brien, Host Dr. Yaba Blay Professor, Scholar and Co-Producer of “Black in America 5” will appear.

  • Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone?

    Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-05 Has “colorism” disappeared? CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asks author and Activist Tim Wise.

  • Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am

    Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-07 Editor’s Note: In today’s United States, is being black determined by the color of your skin, by your family, by what society says, or something else? Soledad O’Brien reports “Who Is Black in America?” on CNN at 8 p.m. ET/PT this…

  • Did one-drop rules have a positive side?

    Did one-drop rules have a positive side? Cable News Network (CNN) Black in America: A Soledad O’Brien Report 2012-12-05 Soledad O’Brien, Host   Ethnographer and professor Dr. Yaba Blay explains why she thinks the one-drop rule has a positive side. [Transcription by Steven F. Riley] Soledad O’Brien: Why do so many black people—me included—embrace the “one-drop…