Gary Dauphin is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in Bidoun, Essence, Interview, Lacanian Ink, The Root.com, Vibe magazine, the Village Voice, and other print and online publications. In addition to his writing, he has held a number of senior positions at leading African American-market websites, including founding Director and Editor-in-Chief of AOL Black Voices, Editor-in-Chief of Africana.com and Editor-in-Chief and Site Manager of BlackPlanet.com. He also maintains an active new media consultancy where he assisted organizations such as NPR with technical and strategic issues around online community, ethnicity, and editorial programming. He is currently engaged by KCET 28 in Los Angeles, one of the nation’s leading public television stations, where he has been charged with the development of blogging, community and social media strategy for a Southern California-focused initiative called KCET Local.



Gary was born and raised in New York City to Haitian parents, and studied film theory at Yale University. He is a proud graduate of the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. He can be reached via his blog, www.ebogjonson.com, or you can always tweet him.

Blog Entries by Gary Dauphin

Oh, Shut Up, Mel

Posted March 24, 2007 | 08:12 PM (EST)


I'm not really surprised that Mel Gibson told Cal State Northridge assistant prof Alicia Estrada to f**k-off, this after teach called his Mayan blood-orgy Apocalypto racist. What does surprise me is that usually tough-minded folks, like, LA Weekly's usually spot-on Nikki Finke (or some HuffPo commenters), think Gibson...

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ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)

Posted April 27, 2006 | 06:24 PM (EST)


Did anyone else notice that of the "ATT 5" (hat tip on the moniker to MyDD) -- the five Dems who crossed party lines to join the Republicans on yesterday's net neutrality vote -- three are Congressional Black Caucus members (Edolphus Towns, Albert Wynn, and...

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Wiretappie, you’re doing a heck of a job!

Posted December 17, 2005 | 05:05 PM (EST)


Of his recently revealed, illegal, and impeachment-worthy authorization of extracurricular wiretaps within US territory, King George II says:


"The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I...

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White Women – The Ultimate Weapon?

Posted December 6, 2005 | 07:16 AM (EST)


From the NYT:

Muriel Degauque, believed to be the first European Muslim woman to stage a suicide attack, started out life as a good Roman Catholic girl in this coal mining corner of Belgium known as the black country.

…her story supports fears among many law enforcement officials...

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Oreos Bursting in Air

Posted November 15, 2005 | 04:26 PM (EST)


From the Baltimore Sun:

[Maryland] Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.

Versions of the story have...

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