By Miles Marshall Lewis As an occasional fiction editor, I’ve seen my share of short stories starring female protagonists variously described as black versions of the Icelandic avant-garde singer, Björk. In the real world outside the land of literature, the closest thing we have to that ideal in R&B is Dallas’s own Erykah Badu, as evidenced most recently by [...]

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As is currently the case in many sectors, broadcast journalism is scrambling to figure out how to tap into and employ (and exploit . . . hey, it’s capitalism) new media and the public’s relationship to the developing formats. NBC News seems to have found a clue, if not an answer, in their new Digital [...]

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