This remake of Shaft should be good, if you think the ABC series Black-ish is comedic and cultural genius, as I do. That’s right; according to the Hollywood Reporter, the 1971 blaxploitation film is getting a reboot, and Kenya Barris, the force behind Black-ish, has been tapped to write the script. Reports say that Barris will infuse some…

It seems that the n-word was a regular part of Hulk Hogan’s vocabulary. He didn’t just use it when he was mad, or speaking disparagingly of African Americans. Looks like he also used it the way some black people do: endearingly. Except the problem is, well, he’s not black.  According to the Daily Mail, more…

There’s nothing wrong with Whoopi Goldberg’s and Raven-Symoné’s defense on Wednesday of Fox co-anchor Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s recent question about the Sandra Bland incident; it’s the other stuff The View co-hosts had to say about “people of color” who harp on race that is off the mark.  But let’s start at the beginning. Bland was pulled…

The executives over at Fox are going to have to do something very soon about Terrence Howard’s character on Empire if allegations keep popping up that he beats women.  It’ll only be so long before the streets start buzzing, and women-advocacy groups and black Twitter will say they’ve had enough and start calling for something…

Styles P recently reminded everyone about the importance of putting family first. Losing a daughter made him realize that a person’s interactions with friends and loved ones is what matters the most in life, not material success. He’d probably love to hear that Janet Jackson is demonstrationg that point.  After hearing that her dad, Joe…

Whenever mainstream news organizations cover Africa, they always seem to want to show the bad stuff: the poverty and the hunger that plague some communities. It irks my dad no end; he says that if they turned their cameras to a few neighborhoods right here in America, they’d see people who are living in very…