Tyler Perry’s Netflix Drama ‘Straw’ Has Black Internet Divided
New Details Reveal the Man Behind Sade Robinson’s Death is Far Sicker Than We Thought
Could L.A. ICE Riots Stop the BET Awards? Here’s All the Tea
Elon Musk is Leaving the Trump Administration and Black Twitter is Buzzing
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BET is the Bargain Basement of Television
I’ll admit I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to my pop culture. Like the small-screen equivalent of a “label whore,” I let a select group of networks command my DVR playlist just as DVF crams my closet (in my dreams). Trained grizzly bears in tutus buying push-up bras from Kathy Griffin? If it’s on Bravo,…
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BET Could Redeem Itself With 'The Game'
BET is on the cusp of making one of the best decisions they have made in years … maybe even decades. According to the official Twitter page of the canceled CW sitcom, “The Game,” the process of BET ordering a new season of the majority black sitcom has begun. Seeing as how BET is, in…
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Michelle Obama Takes Chicago 2016 Bid Overseas
President Barack Obama has long been known as an enthusiastic supporter of the Second City’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic games. Now we know how enthusiastic—the White House is sending its biggest guns to bat for Chicago: Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett. The first lady and her old friend will travel together to the…
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Tyler Perry: The Right Choice
There’s been alot of outrage in certain circles behind reports that filmaker Tyler Perry is on-board to write and direct a screen adaption of Ntozake Shange’s play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” Shange’s work resonates with a generation of young black women eager to define themselves outside of society’s…
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Banks Go For (The) Broke
I’d rather sell my organs on the black market than get a payday loan. There’s something all too seedy about them. The fact that they’re mainly found in low-income neighborhoods doesn’t help. It’s obvious these lenders are taking advantage of cash-strapped residents. As a product of these types of neighborhoods, such blatant exploitation only makes…
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Banks Won't Clean Up Their Mess Voluntarily
Update on the president’s foreclosure relief plan: Still no relief. White House spin and credulous headlines notwithstanding, the Treasury Department’s own numbers make it clear that the modest program is no match for the extraordinary problem. Why? Because if more than two years of timid, piecemeal federal initiatives have proved anything, it’s that banks cannot…
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VIDEO: ACORN Workers Allegedly Giving Streetwalking Advice
While there are always two sides to a story, this looks pretty not great in any way. From CNN: Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring…
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9/11 Testimonies – 8 Years Later
Between 2000 and 2001, I worked at 7 World Trade Center for Salomon Brothers. Three to five times a week, I would take the elevator to the 37th Floor, put on a tux, and serve fresh fruit and coffee to VPs in lavish conference rooms. The job didn’t pay well [no tips], but it was a…
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Obama Remembers 9/11
On the eighth aniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, President Barack Obama and the entire presidential staff, from maintenance men and cooks to Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod, gathered on the South Lawn of the White House to remember. The rain in Washington let up just before 8:46 a.m.—the time the…