Soledad O’Brien, Not Black Enough?
Can anyone ever really revoke your Black card? In her new memoir “The Next Big Story,” CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien says that Rev. Jesse Jackson did just that. During an off-air exchange, O’Brien recounts how Jackson told her she “didn’t count” as a Black anchor on the network. The daughter of an Afro-Latino mother and a White father, O’Brien writes:
