Thursday
06Sep2007
Two of My Sites Won Black Blogger Awards
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 10:53
Thanks to all who nominated and voted. The tallies are in and both Jack & Jill Politics (where I blog as "Jack Turner") and goodCRIMETHINK (what you're reading right now) won the judges vote for the categories of Best Political/News Blog and Black Blogger Achievement, respectively. I'm a black blogger achiever!From the site:
After 7,000+ nominations and 1800+ votes for our 91 finalists, here are the winners of the 2007 Black Weblog Awards.Unique to this year was the addition of our panel of ten judges, authorities in the fields of blogging, design, the Internet and good writing. Each category has two winners: a popular vote (the ones which you, the users, casted your ballots for) and the judges’ vote (the top ranked picks from our judges).Best Political/News BlogPopular Vote: The Field NegroJudges’ Vote: Jack and Jill PoliticsBlack Blogger Achievement AwardPopular Vote: Keith BoykinJudges’ Vote: Baratunde ThurstonIt's an honor to be in such great company. Check out all of the winners if you get a chance. Special shout to Racialicious, What About Our Daughters, TIffany B. Brown, Crunk & Disorderly and Blackprof.com
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Reader Comments (7)
Congratulations, Baratunde! Keep the great news coming. Cheers to your continued success.
Congrats, bruh! First time in and you touchdown with the big-league achiever award!!! Nice.
Congratulations my Boston friend. Your schedule is insane but your talent and creative juices don't seem to suffer at all. Thanks for sharing the good news, Lady J
Congrats!!
Well deserved congratulations, Baratunde! Aren't you the hardest working man in comedy by now?
congratulations!!!!! (now PLEASE get some sleep...)
I've reviewed your award among the many other distinguished awards, and decided that it should be given my personal high excellency award award.