Tag: CNN

  • Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’ Cable News Network 2012-11-27 What makes someone black in America? Skin color? History? Culture? Soledad O’Brien reports on Sunday, December 9 at 8pm ET/PT.

  • Obama makes history, again Cable News Network 2012-11-08 Moni Basu, CNN (CNN) — A black man is returning to the White House.   Four years ago, it was a first, the breaking of a racial barrier. Tuesday night, it was history redux.   And more.   In the midst of national splintering and a time…

  • The recent discovery of Richard Greener’s papers could fill some of the gaps in his biography.

  • ‘Brown babies’ long search for family, identity Indianapolis Recorder 2011-11-23 Stephanie Siek (CNN) — Daniel Cardwell’s obsession consumed three decades of his life and $250,000 of his money, he estimates. His energy has been devoted to answering one basic question: “Who am I?” Cardwell was a “brown baby”—one of thousands of children born to African-American…

  • Pain of ‘Trail of Tears’ shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-02-25 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s Note: Tiya Miles is chairwoman of the Department of Afro-American and…

  • Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-30 Alex P. Kellogg, Special to CNN Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness…

  • Don Lemon: Legacy of ‘one drop’ rule inspires search for family history Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-29 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This is  final installment of  a three-part series about the (1)ne Drop Project. Read Don Lemon’s column, “It only takes one drop,” and Yaba Blay’s…

  • Opinion: What does Blackness look like? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-21 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Editor’s note: Yaba Blay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Africana studies who teaches courses at Lafayette College. Her research focuses on black identity, with…

  • Author, Yaba Blay, to appear on CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon CNN NewsRoom: Weekend Primetime 2012-01-14, 19:00-20:00 EST Don Lemon, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Lafayette College (1)ne Drop author, Yaba Blay, will appear on the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon on Sunday, January 15, 2012 during the 7:00…

  • Even discussing ‘angry black man’ stereotype provokes anger CNN 2010-06-16 John Blake (CNN) — Here are some sound bites from the post-racial era: “The long legged Mac Daddy in the White House is angry this morning. Seems to me we should change the name to the Black House for the next few years. Your news…