Akiba Solomon of ColorLines is reporting that Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell placed fourth in the Miami mayoral election. Since none of the candidates in Tuesday’s election secured the required 50 percent to win, two career politicians — Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and former Dade County Commissioner Carlos Gimenez — will proceed to a June 28…

Fresh from our “You’ve gotta whole lotta nerve” file, Osama bin Laden’s former mistress Kola Boof has taken to Twitter to attack rapper Wale for perpetuating dominant standards of beauty in his music video for “Pretty Girls,” calling him self-loathing. John Hudson reports that Boof went slap-off on Wale, who is Nigerian and from Washington,…

Our News Now is reporting that a new Black Entertainment Television study finds that 81 percent of the movies seen by African Americans don’t prominently feature an African-American cast, lead actor or story line. Matthew Barnhill, senior vice president of market research at BET Networks, said, “The African-American community has diverse tastes, an appetite for quality movies…

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver II is irate that all but five Senate Republicans voted for a “Leadership Budget” that will change Medicare as we know it. Cleaver released the following statement after the Senate voted on the Republican Leadership’s budget that ends Medicare as we know it and raises costs for seniors: Today the Republicans in…

CNN is reporting that U.S. colleges are coming to terms with their slave-owning pasts. In the article, Debra Goldschmidt cites the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., which held an all-day symposium about slavery and reconciliation last March. In 2009 the school acknowledged that it “owned and exploited slave labor from its founding…

You hear that? Not a shot or outcry heard ’round the world. Drew Kolar of All Media NY is reporting that ex-Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent will not face animal-cruelty charges, even though he had four dead dogs stored in containers in his home. Police made the discovery when the musician was arrested in Rutherford County,…

The Brazil Show is reporting that Brazilian civil rights leader, actor, painter and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Abdias Nascimento has died. He was 98 years old. An activist since the 1930s, Nascimento founded the Experimental Theater of the Negro (TEN) in 1944 and created the Institute for Research and Studies Afro Brazilian (Ipeafro) in 1981…

The end of an era has arrived. Talk-show host turned media mogul Oprah Winfrey is ending her run with The Oprah Winfrey Show, a talk show that literally changed the face of daytime television. The end of the talk show has brought up many memories, some of which she shared in an interview with David…

It’s official. Dr. Cornel West has “stepped in it” with his controversial comments about President Barack Obama. West’s “petty” lambasting of the president over his alleged racial allegiances and confirmed racial composition have resulted in a Twitter war among scholars, a viral video that literally went to every corner of the blogosphere and the complete…