The 10th Annual State of the Black Union, hosted by Tavis Smiley, convened in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 28th, again bringing many of the best and brightest African-American thinkers together to air their concerns for the community during an a ...
Posted Wednesday, March 4th 2009 at 12:02PM
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Born in Newark, New Jersey on April 9, 1979, Keshia Knight Pulliam entered showbiz at an early age, making TV commercials as a toddler and already landing a recurring role on Sesame Street by the age of 3. But it was on The Cosby Show that she wormed ...
Posted Wednesday, March 4th 2009 at 11:37AM
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During the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, while I was still the resident political commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, I caused quite a stir among the listeners, who are largely African-American, by insisting that we hold then Sena ...
Posted Wednesday, February 25th 2009 at 3:55AM
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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. was born in Piedmont, West Virginia on September 16, 1950 to Henry, Sr. and Pauline Coleman. Today, he is a world-renowned scholar and educator and the Alphonse Fletcher Professor at Harvard University.
In his capacit ...
Posted Monday, February 23rd 2009 at 12:26AM
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Tyler Perry is a master at making modern morality plays which address an array of concerns of the African-American community. What makes his films feel so authentic is that his characters invariably reflect black culture in a manner which is instantl ...
Posted Friday, February 20th 2009 at 3:42PM
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A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 15 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."
The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-f ...
Posted Tuesday, December 9th 2008 at 12:32AM
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According to the Daily Mail, a newspaper in the UK, a man was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs.
Is this the beginning of violence towards Blacks because of ...
Posted Tuesday, December 9th 2008 at 12:04AM
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More and more people hate are saying that hate when Blacks are referred to as "African American". Some say that he term African-American should only be used for a person who was born in Africa, but currently have U.S. citizenship. What do you think? ...
Posted Monday, December 8th 2008 at 11:41PM
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Actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry testified in a copyright infringement lawsuit Wednesday that he did not steal material from a woman's play for his blockbuster movie "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."
Donna West is suing Perry in federal court, arguing t ...
Posted Monday, December 8th 2008 at 11:25PM
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Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.
Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that minority status comes from who you ...
Posted Monday, December 8th 2008 at 11:23PM
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"Oops, People of Color Live There" has been published. This book provides absolute proof that a Person of Color trying to sell their home in a mixed neighborhood does not have access to the full market. Oops, People of Color Live There will provide t ...
Posted Monday, December 8th 2008 at 11:22PM
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The first child born at the White House was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. The second child born there was his property — the African-American baby of Jefferson's two slaves.
Slaves not only helped build the White House, but also for ...
Posted Monday, December 8th 2008 at 10:59PM
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