Category Archives: Media

Advertising Agencies and Diversity – Part 2

September 25, 2008 – 7:26 am

 
 
 
 
 
While the crisis on Wall Street has most people eyes glued to the television or your favorite newspaper’s business section, unbeknownst to most, there was another hearing held in City Hall (New York City) about the efforts to improve diversity at some of America’s biggest advertising agencies.
Some may remember that a similar hearing was called [...]

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Is Bill Maher The Most Outspoken Black Man In America?

September 21, 2008 – 3:47 am

I think this is ridiculous. I was watching Bill Maher the other night, while he had yet another ill-informed negro celebrity on his show (HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher) NOT to talk about entertainment but instead about politics. And while I’m annoyed that he has an abundance of articulate, but nonetheless ill-informed negroes [...]

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Terrible Marketing

September 19, 2008 – 6:47 am

I can see why one of America’s top civil rights attorneys, Cyrus Mehri, has commissioned a survey of diversity in ad agencies. When agencies come up with creatives for these following commercials, it puts everyone on notice that there needs to be more voices, preferably ones of color, in the conference rooms on Madison Avenue.
I [...]

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Can Hip-Hop Do This?

September 15, 2008 – 11:05 pm

This is clip is a couple of days old, but I post this to underscore a point. Hollywood is informed about the political process, and makes it their business to stay abreast about the going ons of public policy. Hip-Hop on the other hand, even in the reporting by so-called hip-hop websites and blogs, its [...]

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Bristol Palin’s Baby Daddy

September 3, 2008 – 6:09 am

Well it looks like the controversy surrounding Sarah Palin’s candidacy for Vice President of the United States has just turned up another notch. As it well widely reported yesterday that Palin’s 17 year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant – and unmarried – now news has surfaced Bristol’s boyfriend and the father of her child [...]

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