I heard someone the other day who said 'How can Colin Kaepernick lead this because he's mixed and he was raised by adoptive White parents. I wonder if those people feel the same way about President [Barack] Obama. — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this part is not hype. After a while particularly in the case of Sybrina Fulton, they've become celebrities and people forget that they've become celebrities because of the death, the murder of their child. So I wanted people to… — Ed Gordon Copy Share
I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about. — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I feel like, I mean, there's no new wheel, you know. A newsmagazine is what it is. — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought… — Ed Gordon Copy Share
We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but… — Ed Gordon Copy Share
I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I heard someone the other day who said 'How can Colin Kaepernick lead this because he's mixed and he was raised by adoptive White… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image