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For 40 years, Black New Yorkers counted on the host and producer to tell it "Like It Is." Who will pick up the baton to carry on his legacy?
For more than 40 years, Like It Is with Gil Noble was one of the…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: April 6, 2012
Tags: blacks on television, Gil Noble, Here and Now, journalism, Like It Is, Melba Tolliver, minorities on television, Off My Chest, Our World, television news
Depending on the job, access to the social media communications of a potential hire may be in your company's best interest
Employers asking prospective hires for their Facebook password is a hot button topic but it’s…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: April 2, 2012
Tags: Eli Pariser, employee rights, employment law, expectation of pricacy, Facebook, hiring, human resource management, human resources, invasion of privacy, JJ Ramberg, job application, job creation, MSNBC, password, privacy settings, social media, social media privacy settings, social media tools, The Filter Bubble, Your Business
This history-making television event breathed credibility into the idea that I could, indeed, do and be anything I wanted to.
While the miniseries’ place in the firmament of American television history is firmly established, the…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: January 16, 2012
Tags: Ben Vereen, black history, Black History Month, blacks on television, Cicely Tyson, filmmaking, John Amos, Leslie Uggams, LeVar Burton, Lou Gossett, Martin Luther King Day, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN, Roots
A Dutch fashion mag's racist slur against singer Rihanna shows that racism is still one of America's biggest exports
The worst thing about Dutch fashion mag Jackie’s racist slur against Rihanna? Basic, good journalism…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: December 23, 2011
Tags: censorship, Eva Hocke, Gene Marks, Jackie Magazine, journalistic integrity, Lady Gaga, Madonna, niggabitch, pop culture, racial slurs, racism, racist, Rihanna, social media
What would I do? I have no idea. Which is exactly what Forbes should have concluded before proffering advice to poor black kids.
A former poor black kid responds to Forbes’ Contributor Gene Marks ill-considered advice.
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Use this campaign to support local enterprises to conduct your own "empowerment experiment"
This Small Business Saturday make an effort to devote some of your holiday shopping budgets…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: November 25, 2011
Tags: American Express, Buy Black, consumer empowerment, holiday shopping, job creation, John Anderson, Maggie Anderson, New year's resolution, recession, Small Business Saturday, supporting black businesses, Thanksgiving, The Empowerment Experiment, urban business
Well, yes—and no. It's another example of how facts about black people, without context, can be dangerously misleading
Author Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness cites…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: October 28, 2011
Tags: Andreas hale, criminal justice, Jim Crow, justice system, media bias, Michelle Alexander, prison industrial complex, prison reform, slavery, social justice, The Well Versed
The good old days of Mad Men, Pan Am and The Playboy Club all send a familiar message to Black actors: no positions available
I have zero interest, at least so far, in the new shows Pan Am, ABC’s…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: October 3, 2011
Tags: ABC, black actors, Blacks in Hollywood, blacks on television, Diversity, Diversity in Hollywood, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Emmy Awards, Hugh Hefner, Jack Baker, Jennifer Jackson, Mad Men, minorities on television, Mohawk Airlines, Naturi Naughton, NBC, NBC Universal, Pan Am, Playboy, Ruth Carol Taylor, student activist, The Emmys, The Playboy Club, TV-Video
It's what you do once you've signed off and engaged the real world that is the true measure of your activism.
I cared about Troy Davis—not just him, but the millions of others like him behind…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Posted: September 22, 2011
Tags: Amnesty International, Big Boi, capital punishment, Casey Anthony, criminal justice, death penalty, Facebook, justice system, Mark MacPhail, Off My Chest, Outkast, Penny Freezeman, social media, Troy Anthony Davis, Troy Davis, Twitter, Will Packer
