Diddy’s Daughters’ Tearful Exit From Trial Ignites Black America’s Outcry
Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
A White Waitress at a St. Louis Restaurant Calls a Black Woman Customer the B-Word on Video, and It Only Gets Worse From There…
Mama Duke Just Dropped Another Banger and Fans Say It’s As Good As Her ‘America’s Got Talent’ Hit
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Gina McCauley: What Would Happen If Black Women Walked Away?
BV Money’s Gina McCauley poses a very real scenario: Suppose black women got tired of the litany of bad statistics and frequent character assassination in popular culture and decided to throw up the deuce? What if they walked away and took all of their resources with them? McCauley suggests that the black church, civil rights…
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Kanye Tweets 'I Don't Mess With Matt Lauer or the Today Show'
Kanye West is hopping mad yet again. This time his target is Matt Lauer of the Today show, who interviewed West about his comments about Bush during Hurricane Katrina. You may recall that Kanye shouted during a telethon that “George Bush doesn’t like black people.” In case you’ve been asleep at the wheel, W. has…
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Black Feminism, Tyler Perry Style
Leave it to Tyler Perry, a man best known for playing Madea, a modern-day Mammy, to try to redefine black feminism for the mainstream. Perry admits that he didn’t know much about Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, but that didn’t stop him from taking on this…
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. . . Or Maybe It Was Just Bad Medicine
It’s 12 hours later, and I’m feeling better. The worst part was the vertigo. Now, I’ve had a problem as long as I can remember with bouts of dizziness with doing something as simple as planting a flower. Whatever was rocking my world today, the feeling was not unlike motion sickness. Except I was sitting…
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Welcome to Retirement! Ready for Your Funeral?
A presidential commission convened to cut the budget deficit today recommended raising the Social Security retirement age to 69. Also today, the American Human Development Project released a report showing that, at 71 years, African Americans living in Washington, DC, have the lowest life expectancy of anyone in the United States. In other words, on…
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Not Dealing With Depression
Recently I shot a film that I am very proud to be a part of — For Colored Girls, directed by Tyler Perry, based on the award-winning choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange. For Colored Girls is about dysfunctional relationships of all kinds. The personal…
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Child Discipline: It's About the Golden Rule, Not Blackness
After years of speculation, one of the claims that the late icon Michael Jackson made about his family was confirmed. Katherine Jackson, the Jackson-family matriarch, told her estranged husband, Joe Jackson, that he may as well tell the truth: that like most black families — back in the day, anyway — of course he beat…
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NOPD Post-Katrina Shooting Trial Begins
Colorlines is reporting that the trial for five New Orleans police officers charged with killing a black man in the days after Hurricane Katrina, and then later covering up his death, has kicked off this week. On Monday, attorneys gathered in New Orleans to begin jury selection, which is expected to continue today. Opening arguments…
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Lawsuits Challenge Defense of Marriage Act
According to the Associated Press, gay civil rights groups trying to build momentum for a possible Supreme Court showdown filed two lawsuits Tuesday that seek to strike down portions of a 1996 law that denies married gay couples federal benefits. The lawsuits, which were filed in federal courts in Connecticut and New York, come just…