Arturo R. Garcia, my new favorite blogger over at Racialicious has unearthed a doozy about the NBC series Heroes.  Now before I put my spin on it or reveal the juicy, let me say I used to love Heroes. During the first two seasons I’d tune in like an addict.  It was something about the…

Lincoln University, the historically black college in Pennsylvania, won’t let overweight students graduate unless they take a fitness course.  I have officially heard it all.  I would understand if the college encouraged overweight students to take the course, or offer the course as an elective, but mandatory?  Come on.  Diabetes and obesity is certainly an…

Arturo R. Garcia over at Racialicious brought something juicy to my attention.  He discovered the comedy Couples Retreat has opted for two promo posters. One for the American market, the other for the international market.  Couples Retreat stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and funny guy Faizon Love. However, if you’re strolling the streets…

Sarah Palin is angry about the cover photo of her in Newsweek.  So she says. When she chose to pose for Runner’s World in workout gear, pigtails, bare legs and a mid-zipped red top she allegedly had no idea what she was doing, or, that some other news magazine would use the photo.  Palin has…

I was looking through the photos of Anthony Sowell’s victims, and my heart dropped.  More than half of them were described as women with histories of drug and/or alcohol abuse. Nancy Cobbs, Tonia Carmichael, Janice Webb, all dead, all with histories of drug addiction.  I knew this, of course, but to revisit the information through…

I wanted to throw my sixty cents into the Root’s own Jada F. Smith’s “color in black Hollywood” conversation.  As an active participant in the Hollywood game I’d like to bring attention to a few facts.  Smith feels the Lee Daniel’s film Precious is a perfect template for the dysfunctional battle between good and evil,…

John Allen Muhammad is dead.  It’s been seven years since he and his 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, drove through Maryland, Virginia and D.C. shooting (and killing) innocent people.  Last night at 9:11 p.m. Muhammed, who still claimed his “innocence,” was pronounced dead after lethal injection.  And honestly, I don’t know what to feel.  …

Breaking news! Comedian Katt Williams did not break into the house. He was a guest. But I bet that perm had everything to do with him getting arrested. Katt Williams is in the hotseat, again.  Or should I say another Black man has a mug shot posted across the nation and all the trolls and…

Major Nidal Malik Hasaan, a Palestinian-American and Muslim, allegedly screamed “Allahu Akbar” before his shooting rampage.  So it’s no surprise that American Muslims and those who support them are concerned about a national backlash.  It’s also no surprise that some folk don’t like that other folk are ignoring the so-called Muslim-violence pattern taking place on…

So the latest crazy out of Charlotte, N.C., involves an African-American tour guide at the historic Latta Plantation. Brother Ian Campbell forced three black children to act like cotton-picking slaves during a hands-on Civil War history lesson. Oh, I’m forgetting the important part: in front of their white classmates. Campbell allegedly supplied the captive black…