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Radio One Founder Cathy Hughes Named Second Most Prominent Black Woman in Media

Other familiar voices include Sybil Wilkes of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, former local on-air personality Egypt Sherrod, former Radio One Baltimore PD and on-air personality Neke Howse and Ebony Steele, co-host of the RIckey Smiley Morning Show.

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Larry Young

Jul 25, 2010 at 9:36 am

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Van Jones: Shirley Sherrod And Me [OPINION]

I UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt.

Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Partisan Web sites and pundits pounced, and I, too, saw my name go from obscurity to national infamy within hours.

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Larry Young

Jul 22, 2010 at 12:20 pm

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How Fox And The Right Wing Media Twisted The Shirley Sherrod Story

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Mar 29, 2010 at 4:00 pm

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VIDEO: C-Span Caller Complains “Too Many Black People Call In”

In defense of the GOP, just this one time, CSPAN callers are the nuttiest people in the world.

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Larry Young

Mar 3, 2010 at 10:55 am

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Minority Journalists: Media Does Poor Job Covering Race Issues

While minority journalists view the historic election of the U.S.’s first Black president as a positive step for race relations, many believe that their own industry has fallen down on the job in its coverage of race relations, according to the 2010 Journalism in Color Survey on Race and the Media.

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Larry Young

Aug 11, 2009 at 12:40 pm

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