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PostBourgie
PostBourgie was a blog on race, culture, politics and media founded in January 2008 by Gene Demby. Demby also hosted an accompanying podcast by the same name. Founding Demby founded PostBourgie in early 2008. He had begun blogging a few years earlier, prompted by frustration with the state of media conversations about race. Speaking to ColorLines in 2012, Demby recalled in particular an occasion when a CNN reporter approached him on a basketball court to ask for comment on Bill Cosby's Pound Cake speech at the 2004 NAACP Image Awards. Demby said, "I pushed back on him pretty hard...There are people who think black people's condition in the world would be better if we just looked better. 'Pull up your pants.' It seemed so petty that we were having these conversations." In search of an alternative, Demby founded PostBougie as a group blog, inviting collaborators who shared his desire "to have conversations that assumed that black people were human beings who were complicated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Demby
Gene Demby is an American journalist. He is lead blogger on NPR’s race, ethnicity and culture team Code Switch and cohost of the podcast by the same title. He's also the founder of the blog PostBourgie and its accompanying podcast. Early life Demby grew up in South Philadelphia, and attended Hofstra University. Career Prior to joining NPR, Demby worked for ''The New York Times'' and then as managing editor for ''Huffington Post's'' BlackVoices vertical. NPR Code Switch Demby debuted the NPR project Code Switch on April 7, 2013 with an introductory essay that met with immediate acclaim; writing at ''Complex'', Jason Parham said that if the essay "'How Code-Switching Explains The World' is any indication of the content to come, we couldn't be more excited." In 2016, Demby and cohost Shereen Marisol Meraji debuted what Harvard's Neiman Lab called "the long-awaited podcast" from Code Switch. PostBourgie blog Demby began blogging in 2004. Speaking to ''ColorLines'' in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Clayton
Tracy Clayton (born c. 1982/1983) is an American writer known as the co-host of the BuzzFeed podcast ''Another Round (podcast), Another Round'', which has been on hiatus since 2017. Her work has been recognized by ''Fast Company'', ''Ebony'', and ''The Root,'' who described her as "a superstar at BuzzFeed, the millennial-driven media powerhouse where she writes big, funny things." Clayton was laid off from BuzzFeed in September 2018 amid company-wide downsizing. She hosts the Netflix podcast ''Strong Black Legends'', for which she interviews African Americans in the entertainment industry. Early life Clayton was raised in Louisville, Kentucky and received her bachelor's degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington. Career Before joining BuzzFeed full-time in 2014, Clayton wrote for ''MadameNoire, Madame Noire'', ''Uptown magazine, Uptown Magazine'', ''The Urban Daily'', ''PostBourgie'' and ''The Root (magazine), The Root''. She developed the popular Tumbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media. Based in New York City, BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of ''The Huffington Post'', started as a co-founder and investor in BuzzFeed and is now the executive chairman. Originally known for online quizzes, "listicles", and pop culture articles, the company has grown into a global media and technology company, providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, DIY, animals, and business. In late 2011, BuzzFeed hired Ben Smith of ''Politico'' as editor-in-chief, to expand the site into long-form journalism and reportage. After years of investment in investigative journalism, by 2021 '' BuzzFeed News'' had won the National Magazine Award, the George Polk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, and was nominated for the Michael Kelly Award. BuzzFeed generates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BlackPlanet
BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service for matchmaking and job postings; it also has forums for discussion on political and social issues. BlackPlanet was launched on September 1, 2001 by Omar Wasow, an Internet analyst, who in 2001 was running "New York Online", a pre-web community he started in 1993 from his living room in Brooklyn. It was the brainchild of Wasow and Community Connect's CEO Benjamin Sun. Launched in 1999, it was a relative latecomer to social media sites, with three already in existence targeting people of color. Benjamin Sun would also launch AsianAve and MiGente.com. Company The website is run by Community Connect of New York City. Community Connect has also run AsianAvenue.com and MiGente.com In April 2008, Community Connect was purchased for $38MM by Radio One, a Lanham, MD-based media begun by Cathy Hughes. Along with BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com and AsianAvenue.com were also purchased. This move was taken by Radio One to diversif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
