Plus, CNN to launch digital news bureau in Nigeria and Hillary Clinton holds VP interviews at her Washington home.
In his last year in office, POTUS vows to “stand up and fight for the change that we seek.”
Veteran writer and producer Ricky L. Blalock is suing CNN for discrimination after the network allegedly only offered promotions and paid on-the-job training to his Caucasian colleagues.
Is there a petition to get him removed yet?
Wolf Blitzer tried it. On Tuesday, the CNN host interviewed community organizer DeRay McKesson, a rising star in the modern day Civil Rights movement, questioning him on the events in Baltimore. When Blitzer tried to push McKesson to denounce the protesters as violent and reckless, McKesson politely shut him down. “The people that have been […]
It was unanimous across the Internet that CNN’s Don Lemon was a total wreck of a reporter for most of 2014 and basically in life. A week into the new year, he’s already giving us our first clip to cringe at. While interviewing Arsalan Iftikhar, a Muslim human-rights lawyer, Lemon had no chill in asking the gentleman, “In […]
https://twitter.com/Awkward_Duck/status/545001288875134977 It must have been bad idea day at CNN. The reputable news source hosted a call and response on Twitter, asking people to use the hashtag #AskACop for their “Cops Under Fire” segment. Has anyone at CNN ever used the internet? Twitter? That hashtag was clearly setting them up for epic failure. On the […]
NBC Legal Analyst Lisa Bloom and State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal appeared on MSNBC on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night to offer their reactions on the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson and they both effectively dispelled any residual and silly thoughts that we don’t deal with systematic racism within our government. Basically, they […]
Soledad O’Brien is releasing the latest installment of her “Black In America” documentary news series and it will premiere on Tuesday, November 18th at 9 p.m. EST on CNN. This installment is called “Black & Blue” and it will take us into the lives of the police officers who insist they’re fighting crime and […]
CNN has decided that it no longer wants to support the National Association of Black Journalists after the organization called it out. The cable news network has donated to the NABJ for years, and its acted as a sponsor for the association’s annual convention and career fair for quite some time. That all changed last […]
CNN invited the mothers of Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown to speak with Don Lemon about healing and survival, character assassinations of their sons and more in an emotional interview that offered hope to Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden. It’s almost like an unfortunate sisterhood of mothers who have lost their sons when there […]
