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Blog Entries by BlackAndBrownNews

Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers

Posted March 27, 2009 | 06:21 PM (EST)


I am embarrassed as the founder of a digital media source of news and information that I am only now learning of something that happened in 2007.

It seems that while those of us who follow the business of news media were fixated on News Corp's take over Dow...

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Letter: Thank You New York Post For Reminding Me Of What You Are

Posted February 19, 2009 | 02:16 PM (EST)


(originally posted Feb. 18 on BBN)

Dear New York Post: Thank you for reminding me of who and what you really are. Please don't bother to offer up an empty apology for this latest offense.

This illustration is your authentic editorial opinion, and you have every right to have...

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Barack Obama: "Black" Or "Biracial"?

Posted June 16, 2008 | 05:48 PM (EST)


At BlackandBrownNews.com we randomly asked our members should Barack Obama now be referred to as "Black" or "Biracial"? This question has touched off spirited and candid responses.

BBN did not invent the question. This is how the question was introduced to us and why we sought a broader-diverse perspective...

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The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are Supporting Obama

Posted April 10, 2008 | 05:44 PM (EST)


This article was written by Ariel Garfinkel, a sophomore at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts who's majoring in the Politics of Inequality.

The epic struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals strong fault lines between some older and younger women, first underscored by no less than Gloria Steinem who...

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