{"id":26854,"date":"2012-12-09T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26854"},"modified":"2012-12-10T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:28:17","slug":"who-is-black-in-america-soledad-o%e2%80%99brien-cnn-find-out-in-%e2%80%98bia-5%e2%80%b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26854","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Black In America? Soledad O\u2019Brien, CNN Find Out In \u2018BIA 5\u2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/newsone.com\/2097196\/black-in-america-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Who Is Black In America? Soledad O\u2019Brien, CNN Find Out In \u2018BIA 5\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsone.com\" target=\"_blank\">NewsOne: For Black America<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Navarrow Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the \u201cBlack In America\u201d series, which is hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/obrien.soledad.html?iref=allsearch\" target=\"_blank\">Soledad O\u2019Brien<\/a>. In this episode, O\u2019Brien asks the question, \u201cWho is Black in America?\u201d as they tackle the issues of colorism and racial identity. The documentary centers around young women who are part of a poetry program in Philly who are dealing with these issues. I had the opportunity to sit down with Soledad to get her take on what may be one of the most talked about \u201cBlack in America\u201d episodes yet.<\/p>\n<p>[Note from Steven F. Riley: Ms. O&#8217;Brien also mentions what topics are <em>not<\/em> discussed in the hour-long documentary.]<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?width=610&amp;video_pcode=F0d2w6C6y6zFuGkzg-oSKxM7zsM9&amp;deepLinkEmbedCode=Q4eWVoNzptJ-DgPjBFW2dlU2fxGycpIm&amp;height=343&amp;embedCode=Q4eWVoNzptJ-DgPjBFW2dlU2fxGycpIm\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Is Black In America? Soledad O\u2019Brien, CNN Find Out In \u2018BIA 5\u2019 NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-07 Navarrow Wright This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the \u201cBlack In America\u201d series, which is hosted by Soledad O\u2019Brien. In this episode, O\u2019Brien asks the question, \u201cWho is Black in America?\u201d as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,394,20,842],"tags":[13044,13046,13045,12774,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-26854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-navarrow-wright","tag-newsone","tag-newsone-for-black-america","tag-soledad-obrien","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}