Article: `New kid on the block' ; Stephens grad helps Don Imus repair his image after race flap.

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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