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Article: `New kid on the block' ; Stephens grad helps Don Imus repair his image after race flap.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- December 6, 2007
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A Stephens College graduate is playing a major role in Don Imus'
return to the airwaves after the controversial radio personality was
fired for racially and sexually charged on-air remarks he made about
eight months ago.
Karith Foster, a Plano, Texas, native who graduated from Stephens
with a broadcast journalism degree in 1996, is one of two black
comedians who have signed on as cast members of the rehabbed "Imus
in the Morning" show, which is nationally syndicated. The other
newcomer is Tony Powell, a comedian from Brooklyn, N.Y.
On Monday morning during the show's first broadcast on its new
station, WABC-AM in New York, Imus said Foster and Powell will help
in his efforts to continue the ...
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