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Twitter Makes Bad TV Awesome
It used to be when you watched something awful, you had to wait to clown it to your friends. At best, you could only talk to one pal at a time. With Twitter, now bad TV is a free-for-all. David Carr of The New York Times writes Today, the peanut gallery, digitally enabled by social…
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Family Affair: "Black Like Whom?"
Jacqueline Jones of Slate reviews Ira Berlin’s new book The Making of African America. Below is an excerpt of said review Ira Berlin begins this book by recounting a conversation he had several years ago with a small group of black radio technicians, most of them recent immigrants born in Africa or the Caribbean. He…
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Citing Labor Law, DC Exotic Dancer Sues Club Over Wages
Because someone removes their clothes for money doesn’t mean they deserve to be paid unfairly. A DC stripper know this and is taking a local club to court To hear Quansa Thompson talk of her life as an exotic dancer, to listen to her describe how men offer cash as she sashays, gyrates and jiggles…
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Listen Up! "Why Making Healthful Food Cheaper Isn't Enough"
NPR’s Morning Edition explains why targeting consumers who are not purchasing healthy food is more important than merely making the food more accessible. SOURCE: NPR
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The Return of Blackface
Broadway and Me blogger Janice C. Simpson takes a thoughtful look at the reappearance of black face in two recent theater productions.Who would have thought that in the age of Obama, black face and minstrel shows would be making a comeback? But over the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen two very different shows that…
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Fugees Video Director Faces Unspeakable Charges
In an extreme example of how evil can be lurking in plain sight, the identity of the man accused of raping and impregnating several daughters has been revealed. Aswad Ayinde, who directed 1996 MTV-award winning “Killing Me Softly” video featuring The Fugees, has been changed in Paterson, NJ with raping five of his daughters over…
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Smoking Gun, Gawker PWN Yele and Wyclef Again
Remember when Wyclef and Yele were on the up and up? Well, Gawker and The Smoking Gun are reporting that Clef might have been doing less than charitable things, putting his jump off on the Yele payroll Yele Haiti, the sketchy foundation that Wyclef Jean founded to help the Haitian people—which received millions in the…
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James Brown's Body Has Not Been Moved from Crypt
There was a rumor going around that James Brown’s body had been moved from its South Carolina crypt. TMZ is reporting that no such thing happened The morbid dispute arose when one of Brown’s illegitimate daughters, LaRhonda Pettit, told a UK newspaper that the singer’s body was mysteriously moved from the temporary crypt in South…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
