No, Anderson Cooper is the *new * black. 
Ed Bradley I knew. Wayne Brady shocked me though.
If I am not being whooshed, I suspect the reference is to the fact that Anderson Cooper is gay - and (drum roll) can be mistaken for straight!!
Although I suspect this isn’t a phenotype thing…
I don’t know if anyone looked at my links, but a couple people have said that everyone mentioned so far in this thread looked black to them…I’m pretty sure Lacey Chabert is white.
“Hold it, Ed Bradley was a man??? You’re kidding. I never notice gender.”
Stephen Colbert, is that you?
Didn’t see her. I agree she looks white. Stacy Dash and Rashida don’t look white to me.
Can I just say that, as a non-American this thread makes for truly bizarre reading! Those are some weird hang-ups about race y’all got there
“People tell me I’m a man, and I take their word for it.”
No. It is entirely possible that he is the whitest man in broadcast journalism.
And, that’s saying a lot. 
What I meant was this: He made his bones by going to war, like Bradley, like Rather, like Murrow.