Soledad O’Brien has a schtick, and she sticking to it. That schtick is race and all things encompassing it. O’Brien was recently named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and during a speech last week, told the school’s Institute of Politics that she’s often confronted by whites who want to take issue with…
There has been word that CNN’s morning show “Starting Point with Soledad O’ Brien” has not been faring well (along with the network’s consistent low ratings). However, with a change of heads at CNN, NBC’s Jeff Zucker, who now leads CNN Worldwide, hopes to salvage talent and reposition CNN’s brand. One person who is getting…
A while ago, I took my little cousins to Toys “R” Us. Three of them. 8 years old, 6 years old, 4 years old. It was going smoothly enough until we came across a row of dolls. There were two on the end. A fully-adorned Black doll on the left. A fully-adorned white doll on…
What defines race in America? The answer is not always black and white. Biracial makeups and varied ethnicities complication delineations of race in American culture. Soledad O’Brien’s “Black In America” series attempts to address the weighted issue in its fifth installment, which airs this Sunday on CNN at 8 PM EST. The documentary follows the story…
