Yesterday, President Obama honored this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This year’s recipients included Bob Dylan, Dolores Huerta, and the incomparable Toni Morrison.
The fallout from Cory Booker’s appearance on Meet The Press Continues. The communication director for Newark (NJ) mayor, Corey Book has resigned, effective immediately. Do you think Booker will recover from his disastrous appearance on Meet The Press?
When Queen Latifah signed on to perform at Long Beach, California’s gay pride parade, many figured she would finally seize the opportunity to come out. And she did…sort of. Does it matter if Queen Latifah explicitly comes out or not?
Jasiri X and Van Jones at RebuildWI in Milwaukee (Photo by Paradise Gray) At Rebuild Wisconsin, One Hood Media (Jasiri X and Paradise Gray) spoke with Van Jones about why Rebuild the Dream got involved in the Recall of Governor Scott Walker, and what we need to do before and after the Presidential election. We […]
“…This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that for the heart of the matter is here and the crux of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and […]
David Clowney shared his HIV status on Twitter; he tweeted the test results, and even supplied a picture, too. Is knowing Clowney’s status beautiful and/or inspiring? Or is he just the latest to prove, via Twitter, why athletes need publicists?
Reality TV show drama has been in the news a lot lately. Petitions urging the networks that produce these shows to reconsider have gained a lot of traction. The masses are finally growing disgusted with the petty, sometimes violent behavior of reality TV stars. While it seems many are finally ready to dismiss the violent […]
15 year-old honor student Brittany Rowley has put the NYPD back in the headlines after being “roughed up” by two of its officers in a case of mistaken identity. Her harrowing experience is just another example of the NYPD’s outrageous, overly-aggressive tactics in our communities.
Maryland politician Pat McDonough has called on state troopers to patrol Baltimore’s upscale Inner Harbor in order to protect it from dangerous, roving mobs of violent black youth. This kind of outrageous, over-the-top vilification of our youth has to stop!
Last night Monday I stumbled across an article with the headline, “Man who had 30 kids with 11 women wants child-support break.” Of course the ethnicity of this father turned out to be Black. My first reaction to this story was a shaken head, because Black male bodies seem incapable of accountability. Missing fathers, no […]
Issa Rae’s popular webseries, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is now part of hip hop producer/entrepreneur Pharrell Williams’ new YouTube channel, ‘i am Other.’ Will this bring greater success for Issa Rae?
Lupe Fiasco’s new single, “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” samples Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth’s classic “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.),” and Pete Rock is NOT happy about it. Does Rock have a legitimate beef or is he just being cranky?
