When Spike Lee was a grad student living in New York, he’d call his grandmother, Zimmie Lee Shelton, every night. Shelton, the granddaughter of a slave and a graduate of Spelman College, helped put young Spike through Morehouse College and New York University Film School. Every night, their ritual check-in would end the same way. [...]
10:52 a.m. | Updated Executives of BP explained on a conference call on Tuesday that its operations would be “more focused” once the company sells $25 billion to $30 billion worth of assets over the next 18 months in order to meet liabilities from the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and restore its [...]
Salon’s Joan Walsh wrote about me today, so I figure I would return the courtesy. Walsh and I (along with Jane Hall of American University) appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, to discuss the Shirley Sherrod story, as well as the “JournoList” story. Things got rocky early on. During Walsh’s opening [...]
An apologetic phone call from Barack Obama and a new (and still unaccepted) job offer from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack should help end the media frenzy over the grotesquely unfair firing of Shirley Sherrod. There still are mysteries, like who doctored the tape that right-wing attack artist Andrew Breitbart ballyhooed to erroneously and maliciously claim [...]
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