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  • “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.

  • Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5′

    Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5’ NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-07 Navarrow Wright This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the “Black In America” series, which is hosted by Soledad O’Brien. In this episode, O’Brien asks the question, “Who is Black in America?” as…

  • Annette John-Hall: CNN series cuts to the core of black identity

    No surprise that “Black in America,” Soledad O’Brien’s documentary series on African American life and culture, was among CNN’s most-watched programs. No other show has offered a deeper look at what it means to be black, in all its complexities.

  • CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule

    CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule ColorLines: News for Action 2012-12-07 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters New York, New York Keep the concept of privilege-clinging in the back of your mind as you check out the work and words of Dr. Yaba Blay, the driving force behind “Who Is Black…

  • 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…

  • Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’

    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.

  • but in this racialized society he is seen as a black man.

    Everyone seems to be negating President Barack Obama’s own story. The man himself has said publicly in print that, yes, his mother is white; yes, he is technically bi-racial, mixed race, whatever the language is people choose to use, but in this racialized society he is seen as a black man. And for that reason…

  • Who is Black in America? A Soledad O’Brien Report

    Who is Black in America? A Soledad O’Brien Report Cable News Network 2012-12-09, 20:00 EST Soledad O’Brien, Host Black in America is a documentary series reported by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. In its fifth year, CNN’s Black in America takes a look at “Who is Black in America?” Soledad O’Brien follows two 17-year-olds, Becca Khalil and…

  • Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America?

    American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it.  Scholar Yaba Blay offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project (1)ne Drop…