Rich, Famous and Black, on CNBC and HBO

New York Times by Ginia Bellafante | Feb. 26, 2009 (Review)

One of the immediate repercussions of Barack Obama’s journey to the White House has been a frenzied eagerness by the news media to showcase the lives of prominent and well-to-do African-Americans.

We have read about the vacation preferences of the Harvard-educated lawyers and bankers and real-estate developers in the president’s friend circle. We have seen the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” in their limos and gated worlds and arena-size ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kristin Gorski - Feb 26, 2009 - 5:02 AM PST
Reviewed by: Fabrice Florin (review), Kenneth Sibbett (review), Dwight Rousu (review), Allison Robinson (review)
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Feb 26, 2009 - 10:21 AM PST

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Dwight Rousu
3.3
 by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 26, 2009

The story is a culture piece, showing that making advances in a materialistic society is being celebrated with material things.

Showing poverty does not sell ads.

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Kenneth Sibbett
3.1
 by Kenneth Sibbett - Feb. 26, 2009

I don't get it. Is the author trying to say that the rich Black athletes are being opulent and should live a different lifestyle? Are the intellectual in a different world and try to bring the lower class up? Whats the point?

Maybe I should have watched Vol 1.

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Fabrice Florin
3.5
 by Fabrice Florin - Feb. 26, 2009
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Allison Robinson
2.7
 by Allison Robinson - Feb. 27, 2009
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