Brazil is celebrated for its abundance of exotic feminine beauty in all shades of the rainbow, but according to the New York Times, the modeling world (stupidly) passes over darker complexions for a whiter shade of pale. Indeed, [model] scouts say that more than 70 percent of the country’s models come from three southern states…

Once again, racial profiling leads to bad decisions and injustice. On Monday in New York City, it led a group of people protesting a proposed Islamic center near the site of the September 11 attacks to turn on two men they thought looked and sounded suspicious: At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly…

That’s right. The new owner of Gatwick Airport, Britain’s second largest, is a brother. Adebayo Ogunlesi, president of Global Infrastructure Partners, an independent investment fund in New York City, struck a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire Gatwick. Talk about a-ballin’ for real. In an exclusive interview with Jeff Randall, Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners,…

It seems Chris Brown can’t escape the past. The singer, who is trying to get his career back on track after suffering a public image flogging for assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna, has been denied entry to the U.K., where he was scheduled to perform three concerts. According to reports, Brown was refused a visa for…

The growing canon of hip hop biopics is about to get a long-awaited addition: Director Antoine Fuqua, whose previous flicks include Training Day and Brooklyn’s Finest, will show Cali some love now that a film about the tumultuous life and tragic death of Tupac Shakur has been green-lighted. After two years of legal battles between Morgan Creek production company,…

In a statement released by the Tiger Woods Foundation, the pro-golfer announced that his charity will be establishing two Tiger Woods Learning Center campuses in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy. Construction of the campuses should be completed by mid-August and they are set to open by…

In a “Black Spin” posting for Black Voices, Boyce Watkins, Ph.D., blasted the New Bedford Standard-Times for inadvertently publishing a racist ad placed by a law firm. The advertisement announced property for sale to “whites only” — an alleged slight on the part of the law firm, Harmon Law, as well as, the newspaper. A complaint has been…

Marvin Isley of the psychedelic soul and funk band, The Isley Brothers, died yesterday in Chicago at the age of 56. With his guitarist sibling, Ernie, Isley joined elder brothers Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly in 1969; the Cincinnati-vocal act had already scored such indelible R&B hits as “Twist and Shout” and “This Old Heart of…

If you found yourself perplexed upon learning that the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial intended for our nation’s capitol is being built in China, a new Web cam designed to take you behind the scenes might help quell your outrage over the outsourcing. The group leading the controversial project has launched a “construction cam” that will document progress on the…

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