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ROLLING OUT MAGAZINE: Jeff Johnson of BET Talks About His New Book, Kanye West's Outburst and President Obama
10/21/09
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Jeff Johnson is interviewed by Clutch Magazine
10/14/09
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Jeff Johnson discusses his new book and his documentary about Kurdistan
9/14/09
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Everything I'm Not: An Interview with Jeff Johnson
9/21/09
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JEFF JOHNSON: ‘EVERYTHING I’M NOT’: Self-help book named after Kanye song; West wrote forward
9/21/09
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Baltimore Book Festival This Weekend
9/21/09
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Julie Duin @ The Washington Times talks to Jeff about Social Justice in Kurdistan Iraq
7/23/09
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Jeff on the The Michael Eric Dyson Radio Show
7/16/09
Tales from investigative journalist Jeff Johnson. He likes to look at race, pop culture, politics and socioeconomic issues. In some ways, they all intersect in northern Iraq where Mr. Johnson's been taping a documentary on the "nation within a nation", Kurdistan. On July 15, 2009 Jeff appeared live on the Michael Eric Dyson Radio Show on stations supporting the African American Public Radio Consortium. For more information visit www.dysonshow.org. The Michael Eric Dyson Show is a daily radio talk show that airs nationally and is hosted by preeminent scholar, author, and media personality Michael Eric Dyson.

Jeff Johnson Offers the Truth
July 2009
Through “The Truth,” Long-Time BET Host and Political Correspondent Jeff Johnson Tackles Today’s Top Stories and Delivers a Keen Analysis of the Issues Facing the Black Community
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Stirring the Melting Pot - Columbia University Eye to Eye Interview
May 2009
In honor of Black History Month, Columbia's 2009 Black Heritage Month planning committee invited Jeff Johnson to be the keynote speaker for the opening ceremony. Kelicia Hollis sat down with Johnson to talk to him about building community in diversity.
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Blacks at Odds Over Scrutiny of President
4/6/09
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 Jeff weighs in on NY Post cartoon controversy on CNN
2/18/09
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 "From Truth Comes Action"
WMDT-TV coverage of Jeff's appearance at University of Maryland Eastern Shores
2/17/09 
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BET's Jeff Johnson tries to balance objective coverage with the event's emotional appeal
1/22/09
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"Black TV is Wearing its Politics on its Sleeve"
11/5/08
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Jeff Johnson to speak at Indiana University's Men of Color Leadership Conference
10/30/08
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Grappling for 'The Truth'
August 2008
Jeff Johnson doesn't pretend to know the truth about everything. But he thinks he can help people find it.
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