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...Though “The Wire” focused on the open-market drug trade as a phenomenon of urban black communities, Simon disputed the notion that it was a commentary on race. “‘The Wire’ is not a depiction of the African-American experience in America,” he said. “Nor is it a history of white folk in America.”Canada disagreed, arguing that racism had played a role in making the drug trade such an integral part of American life, and black life...
Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly dominate America's talk radio while white liberal voices are mere squeaks on the airwaves. But now syndicated black radio hosts like Tom Joyner, Bev Smith, Michael Baisden and Warren Ballentine and other African-American radio personalities are not only increasingly audible to a wider audience but visible and influential as well. Says April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): "My phone has been ringing off the hook with Fox News and MSNBC wanting interviews with me. Black radio has always been here, covering the important...
...critical role of African-American voters during this election cycle has compelled both the Clinton and Obama campaigns to turn to influential black syndicated radio hosts, such as Bev Smith (whose show on AURN claims to reach 25 million listeners) and Tom Joyner (whose Dallas-based syndicated program says it has 8 million listeners every week), in an effort to spread their campaign message. It also helps them with damage control in the aftermath of negative mainstream media coverage, such as the backlash from controversial statements made by Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright...
...black radio hosts] have an opportunity to be griots, the front person that people turn to and listen to, just like black radio was in the '60s," says Smith, host of the nation's only syndicated African-American nightly talk radio show. She says, "We [in black radio] have been here covering the issues that matter to the black community for many years, but the mainstream media did not come to us. With the emergence of Barack Obama we have been vindicated. His candidacy has put the issue of race into the 21st century much in the same way that...
...Does the African-American vote in Philadelphia top 65% of the city's total...