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Details of Malcolm Shabazz's Death Revealed
Jozen Cummings is the author and creator of the popular relationship blog Until I Get Married, which is currently in development for a television series with Warner Bros. He also hosts a weekly podcast with WNYC about Empire called Empire Afterparty, is a contributor at VerySmartBrothas.com and works at Twitter as an editorial curator. Follow him on…
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Black Singing Couple Goes Viral
(The Root) — For the past week, a conversation has been had over everyday black people going viral in the media — like Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who helped saved three women from their kidnappers and became an Internet meme after his live interview with his city’s news station. But there was another black…
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Meagan Good Drama 'Deception' Canceled
Welp, it looks like time has run out for Meagan Good to compete with or at least capitalize on the success of primetime television’s current black Hollywood queen, Kerry Washington. NBC is canceling Good’s starring vehicle, Deception, due to low ratings, according to the Hollywood Reporter. NBC’s attempt to capture some of the buzz surrounding…
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Serena Williams Responds to Sloane Stephens
Who got served? Last week, young up-and-coming tennis star Sloane Stephens came at Serena Williams through the pages of ESPN the Magazine. Stephens, whose shocking defeat of Williams at the Australian Open quarterfinals in January had many people calling Stephens the next Serena, said that she and Williams weren’t besties the way many thought they…
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Jason Collins' Ex-Fiancée Lands Book Deal
(The Root) — When Jason Collins announced to the world that he was gay on the cover of the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated, the announcement took the media by storm. As the first athlete in America’s four major professional team sports to come out, Collins was quickly crowned a hero by many people.…
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Images of a Scarred Chicago
Every year, the street-culture magazine The Fader publishes a special photo issue. Usually the issue features multiple photo essays, but this year the magazine chose to spotlight just one. Shot by photographer Daniel Shea, the essay, entitled “Chicago Fire,” features the city’s notorious South Side , but with a focus not on the neighborhood stars like…
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Obama Tells Ohio State 'Your Future Is Bright'
President Obama kicked off his annual commencement-speech tour on Sunday with a visit to Ohio State University. In front of a crowd numbering close to 60,000, according to the New York Times, the president steered clear of stumping or any partisan politics. Instead he chose a message of uplift and hope for the graduating Buckeyes…
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Hot97 Radio DJ Mister Cee Arrested Again
Popular radio DJ Mister Cee, of New York City’s hip-hop station Hot97, was arrested by an undercover cop Saturday for allegedly attempting to pay for sex. According to the New York Post, the arrest took place in Brooklyn, N.Y., and involved a male officer. The 46-year-old music producer allegedly asked for sex from a man of…
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PepsiCo Drops Lil Wayne
(The Root) — It’s been a tough week for PepsiCo. Earlier this week, they had to pull an ad created by Odd Future member Tyler, The Creator, due to complaints that its content was racist and insensitive toward women. Today, according to the Associated Press, the company dropped Lil Wayne for a controversial lyric in…
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Where Has Cory Booker Been?
Cory Booker has more than 1.3 million followers on Twitter. That’s impressive by any measure, but when you consider Newark, N.J., the city of which he is mayor, has a population a quarter of that size, you understand why he is known by many as America’s Mayor. Booker, even in the world of politics, is…
