-
Jada, Will and the Open Marriage?
(The Root) — Professor Jada Pinkett Smith is back in the building, and class is in session. Continuing her online university-esque lecture series disguised as Facebook posts on everything from haters and bullying to goddess energy and last-resort lesbianism, Pinkett Smith recently sort of addressed the persistent rumors of her alleged open marriage to fellow…
-
Gun Violence: What Do We Tell Our Children?
The Rev. Al Sharpton writes in a piece for the Huffington Post that it’s up to each and every one of us to show more courage than the 46 political cowards in the U.S. Senate. Almost every single day, someone walks into one of National Action Network’s (NAN) offices around the country consumed with the…
-
Black Male Teachers: Becoming Extinct?
(The Root) — Many media sources have propagated the view that black male teachers are “becoming extinct.” Currently, black males represent less than 2 percent of the nation’s teacher workforce. One article suggests that black males are underrepresented in the teaching profession because they prefer to pursue more lucrative careers. The article also postulated that…
-
Blame Liberals for Gun Control's Failure
(The Root) — When President Obama said, “This was a pretty shameful day in Washington,” after the Senate defeated a bill that would have expanded background checks for those purchasing firearms, he expressed the sentiments of many Americans, perhaps up to 90 percent of them. That’s the number of Americans that polls show support universal…
-
Robin Roberts on Her Hospitalization and Boston
Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, who underwent a bone marrow transplant in September 2012, used a Facebook post today to inform fans and viewers that she’d been briefly hospitalized after she fell ill during a trip to Key West, Fla., last week. She pointed out that it was “nothing serious.” Here is her message,…
-
Man Charged With Threats Against Obama
(The Root) — In a statement released Thursday afternoon, the Department of Justice announced that 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis, of Corinth, Miss., has been arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with making threats against President Obama and other suspicious communications. In an affidavit in support of the complaint charging Curtis, an FBI agent…
-
Does 'N-gger' Trump All Other Slurs?
Panam Jackson writes: A few weeks back, one of the homeys sent me a video of an incident on a Metro train in DC. See, some wayward white man on the Green Line (notoriously known as the “Soul Train” in the area due to its propensity to run only through Prince George’s County, MD and DC),…
-
Basketball Wives Movie: Smart Move or Marketing Disaster?
When you think of Basketball Wives, what comes to mind? You’re probably thinking of violent, self-absorbed, narcissistic women with a false sense of reality who represent all the negative stereotypes women have fought for decades to erase. Now, can you imagine that being brought to the silver screen? Well, it’s coming! When it was confirmed…
-
When Some People Think You're Marrying a White Woman
Damon Young writes, in a follow up to his pre-April Fool’s Day post, “How I Fell in Love With a White Woman.” You know, whenever I watch videos like the one where the father was beating his daughter after catching her making a twerking video, I wonder if people who believe in corporal punishment are on…
-
Jay-Z Gets a Time 100 Cover: 'He Even Put a Ring on Beyoncé'
On Thursday, Time magazine revealed the 10th annual Time 100, its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. No one will be shocked to learn that Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett were among the African-American leaders honored from the political realm. We probably could have called Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Shonda Rhimes, Miguel, Frank…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
