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Charles Branham-Bailey is an American newspaper columnist and journalist. His weekly column, "Can He Say That?," has run in the The Miami SunPost since May 6, 2010.

He writes frequently about the people and politics of Miami Beach, South Florida, Florida, the nation, and beyond.

He has not been afraid – oftentimes with humor, parody and satire – to tweak the noses of the "Powers That Be," be they at Miami Beach City Hall or Miami-Dade County Hall or Tallahassee or Washington. Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Luther Campbell, Glenn Beck, The Miami Herald – even the pope – are just a handful of those who have been on the receiving end of stinging barbs and funny put-downs that have flowed from Charles's word processor.

In the course of a journalism career stretching back over 30 years

Early career
Branham-Bailey's interest in journalism began when he began self-publishing a monthly newspaper for family and relatives at age 13. Years later, he went on to serve as feature editor for both his high school paper and yearbook.

He served as a staff writer and columnist for The Berea College Pinnacle from 1983 to 1984, interviewing, among others, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu and author Alex Haley. He was also an on-air broadcaster and copy writer for WDNA-FM, then the Berea College student radio station (1983-84), and a publicist for the Berea College Labor Department (1984).

He briefly served as a speechwriter for Lonnie Napier in Napier's 1984 campaign for a Kentucky House of Representatives seat.

Branham-Bailey was an occasional free-lance stringer during the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis (1988), Jerry Brown and Clinton-Gore (1992), Dole-Kemp (1996), and Al Gore and George W. Bush (2000), covering their forays into Virginia and Florida.

His contributions have appeared in The Fort Lauderdale Promenade (1994), ''Splash! The Entertainment Magazine (1994), The Miami Herald (1996), The Trust for Public Land in the Southeast quarterly (1997), and Model World'' magazine (1999). He co-edited Bookings, the Broward County Public Library newsletter (1994).

He was founder and managing director of a business support services firm from 1993 to 2008, providing administrative, consultative, marketing, public relations, and special event support to client companies and individuals in South Florida, central Florida, and Southern California.

In 1996, Branham-Bailey spearheaded The Trust for Public Land's public relations campaign to win voters' passage of the Safe Neighborhood Parks Act in Miami-Dade County.

Honors and awards

 * 1982 – Creative Writing Award, American Association of University Women
 * 1982 – Century III Leaders finalist, National Association of Secondary School Principals
 * 1983 – Journalism Award for Best Feature Writing, John Marshall University
 * 1983 – English Bowl Award, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
 * 1983 – Inductee, Quill & Scroll International Honorary Society for High School Journalists
 * 1984 – Awards for impromptu and persuasive speaking, Berea College