Film Historian Donald Bogle Talks Oscar Micheaux in TV Documentary
Filed under: Movies, Interviews Currently playing on the cable channel TCM is an amazing new documentary series called 'Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood,' which tells the epic story of...
View ArticleNotable/Quotable: T.I. Talks Drug Addiction
Filed under: Music, Star Quotes "I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff...
View ArticleKim K. Card a Piece Of Crap: Kardashian Card Has Massive Fees
Filed under: Celebrity News, News, Credit Card A few weeks ago,I told you about the Kim Kardashian MasterCard, a truly terrible example of celebrity endorsement gone bad. I didn't blame Kim K. herself...
View ArticleBlack Friday 2010: How to Avoid Holiday Debt and Over-Spending
December is right around the corner, and that means you can't walk into any retail establishment or department store without being inundated with sales offers, promotions, and other marketing gimmicks...
View ArticleSchomburg Center Director Choice Controversial for Black Scholars
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights Khalil Gibran Muhammad appears to be a great choice to head the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. A 38-year old assistant professor of...
View ArticleKim Zolciak Confirms Pregnancy
Filed under: Television, News It's confirmed that 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star Kim Zolciak and her boyfriend, Kroy Biermann, are three months pregnant and expecting their first child together. The...
View ArticleJay-Z Admits to Shooting Brother at Age 12
Filed under: Music, News Prior to Jay-Z's rise to the top of an estimated $450 million empire, the 40-year-old mogul once thought that he would never see the light of day as a free citizen due to his...
View ArticleThe Stripper Party That May, or May Not, Have Happened
Filed under: News, Media Somehow, Detroit just can't get past the Kwame Kilpatrick soap opera. For the past several years, there has always been a running street-level rumor in Detroit about a wild...
View ArticlePrince William Wedding: Spendthrift British Royalty vs. Bargain Basement Obamas
Filed under: Celebrity News, News Everyone is weighing in on the coming wedding between commoner Kate Middleton and Prince William -- on both the material and emotional nature of the merger. Recently,...
View ArticleLeslie Frazier: Vikings Fire Childress, Promote Black Coach
Filed under: FootballThe Minnesota Vikings have a tumultuous season under the leadership of head coach Brad Childress. Everything from beefing with his quarterback Brett Favre to tension in the locker...
View ArticleBlack Historian Margaret Burroughs Dead at 93
Filed under: News, Politics, Race and Civil Rights Margaret Burroughs, founder of Chicago's famed DuSable Museum of African American History, died in her sleep this weekend at the age of 93. Burroughs,...
View ArticleSick of Paying for Deadbeat Parents? It's Time to Smoke Them Out
Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money, News My entire life, I've seen the costs and consequences of parents who don't want to pay to take care of their own kids. My father abandoned me when I was child, and to...
View ArticleBishop Eddie Long Update: Trial Date Now Set for Next Summer
Filed under: News Bishop Eddie Long appeared in a courtroom Friday to deal with accusations of sexual coercion being brought by four young men who were once members of his church. The judge decided...
View ArticleIn Commemoration of World AIDS Day: Black Stars Lost To HIV/AIDS
Filed under: HIV/AIDS These days, AIDS awareness and HIV prevention should continue being a prominent topic of discussion. Like Annie Lennox the legendary pop singer who has worked with the United...
View ArticleFace-Off: Whoopi Goldberg Versus Bill O'Reilly Take 2
Filed under: Television 'The View' panelist Whoopi Goldberg appeared on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show 'The O'Reilly Factor' Tuesday night to promote her new book, 'Is It Just Me?: Or is it Nuts Out...
View ArticleArsenio Hall: Is He Returning to Late-Night TV?
Filed under: Gossip, Television'The Arsenio Hall Show' was once the hottest thing going on late-night television and though the show ended in 1994, host Arsenio Hall is still bombarded with fan...
View Article'Burlesque' Film Review: Cliched, But Really An Enjoyable Guilty Pleasure
Filed under: Reviews As campy and clichéd the film is, Christina Aguilera's film debut in 'Burlesque' is not an updated version of 'Showgirls.' In fact, with the big screen return of Oscar winner Cher,...
View ArticleChristina Milian Gets $4 Million 'Dream' Divorce Settlement
Filed under: Celebrity News From Clutch Magazine: The love lost between artists Christina Milian and The-Dream came with a lot of zeros. Not long after mega producer and rapper The-Dream was spotted...
View ArticleDoctor Fights the Stigma of HIV/AIDS in Our Community
Filed under: HIV/AIDS When she was a young resident at New York City's Harlem Hospital in the 1980s at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Dr. L. Jeannine Bookhardt-Murray (pictured right) longed to know...
View ArticleWoman With HIV/AIDS Preaches Compassion
Filed under: HIV/AIDS Maria Davis (pictured) was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 and AIDS in 1998. She has since become an outspoken advocate for the disease. She is a peer counselor at Harlem United, a...
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