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Significant news stories aren't necessarily guaranteed a space in the annals of public memory -- they're emblazoned there by gifted reporters. Soledad O'Brien is one of those journalistic storytellers who uses human interest pieces to…
Janelle Harris Dixon
If you live in Any Metropolis, USA, coming out of the neighborhood coffee shop with a frappuccino and a cheese danish for less than $20 can be a study in quantitative economics. So buying an…
Janelle Harris Dixon
The thought of zit-filled yearbook photos, SAT anxiety and awkward interactions with the opposite sex are enough to banish any and all high school recollections to the farthest corners of most people's minds. The thought of…
Andrea Williams
There are some TV personalities who, perhaps unbeknownst to them, become "friends" to their fans and viewers. You know how it is -- the rational part of you realizes they couldn't pick you out of…
Janelle Harris Dixon
"Mogul" in its present overuse, is like the retired boxer of dictionary words: it used to pack a lot of punch, but now it's gotten kind of flaccid and nondescript. Cathy Hughes doesn't care much…
Janelle Harris Dixon
As a publicist, Marvet Britto's roster is deep with celebrities (Angela Bassett, Kim Cattrall and the NBA's Tyson Chandler), blue chip companies (Motorola and Microsoft) and an entire island (Anguilla). And while many in the…
Andrea Williams
When David Karp was 15, he dropped out of high school to be homeschooled on New York's Upper West Side. At 17, he moved to Tokyo to work for UrbanBaby, an online parenting advice site…
Sammy Davis
Way, way back in 1995, when the first dot-com domain name was celebrating its tenth birthday and the World Wide Web was still an incredibly young four years old, the Internet was truly unchartered territory.…
Andrea Williams
If you're looking for the latest news on the economy these days, one place you might be turning to is American Public Media's flagship broadcast, Marketplace. If so, you're in the company of an estimated…
E.B. Boyd
If you were a black girl in the late 1990s threading together the elements of a fabulous life, you undoubtedly read Honey. If you were a black girl in the late 1990s who aspired to…
Janelle Harris Dixon