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Oprah Winfrey’s OWN has found at least one winning formula in its programming – the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pies.” The story of Miss Robbie Montgomery and her family-run soul food restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri has made fervent fans out of viewers who can appreciate her wisdom and her devotion to family and […]
Actor/comedian Tommy Davidson, best known for his work on “In Living Color,” has had a career as a standup comic for many years, and this weekend, he’s heading down to Texas to the Arlington Improv. Davidson has racked up credits in movies like “Bamboozled,” “Booty Call,” “Strictly Business” and “Black Dynamite” and was for years […]
This week, a grand jury met one last time over the cold case of Frank Morris, an African-American shopkeeper in Ferriday, Louisiana, who was brutally murdered in 1964, a victim of the Ku Klux Klan. Morris’ case was re-opened in 2007 as part of unsolved civil rights murder investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice. […]
It’s fitting that LL Cool J is hosting this year’s Grammy nomination show “The Grammy Nominations Live!” airing tonight from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on CBS at 10 p.m. EST. The veteran rapper/actor, now starring on the CBS hit “NCIS: Los Angeles,” is a two-time Grammy winner. If you’re not up on your hip-hop history, […]
Now that Dr. Conrad Murray has received his four-year jail sentence in his involuntary manslaughter conviction for the death of Michael Jackson, fans can now return their focus on Jackson’s legacy instead of his untimely death. Many can say they knew Jackson, but very few can say they’ve known him since they were four years […]
In the Old West, there was a black female slave named Mary Fields who was raised by nuns in Tennessee. She was an orphaned child who never married and never gave birth. After moving to Toledo, Ohio, Fields would spend all of her time in the Catholic Convent with a woman named Mother Amadeus. Though […]
Occupy Wall Street is now entering its third month, and black America has yet to show up. Oh, there are sprinkles of color here and there in the many protests and encampments scattered around the country. But, in large measure, Occupy is a white thing. It has been noted that the absence of black involvement […]
A poised Atlanta businesswoman appeared on a local television station Monday and told viewers that she had a 13-year affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, yet another bombshell accusation that involves Cain and alleged inappropriate relationships with women from his past. “It was pretty simple. It wasn’t complicated. I was aware that he was […]
Recently, the people of Lafayette, Indiana learned that a small cottage that once stood at 1009 Cincinnati Street was more than an abandoned building – it was a historic AME church for the free black slave community. Built in the early 19th century, blacks owned the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1846 to 1866. […]
The embattled band director of the famed Florida A&M University Marching 100 is fighting back after being fired last week following the death of a drum major in an alleged hazing incident after the Florida Classic football game in Orlando. Robert Champion, a 26-year-old from Atlanta who was slated to be head drum major next […]
There’s something so familiar about “Reed Between the Lines,” and it’s not just stars Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Tracee Ellis Ross. BET’s latest original sitcom is about an educated married couple living on the outskirts of New York City with their three children. Wait. Haven’t we seen this before? Well, if this sitcom reminds you of […]
President Barack Obama, who in 1979 won a Hawaii state championship playing basketball for his high school, the Punahou School, really misses NBA basketball. He misses it so much that he’s decided to do something about it. With the NBA lockout threatening to cancel the entire season, last week, the president’s re-election campaign announced that […]