A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
In Minnesota Assassination Attempt, Wife’s Split-Second Decision is a Testament to a Mother’s Love
KWN, ‘The Female Version of Chris Brown’ Got Black Men Worried And For Good Reason
Oklahoma Black Man Hit By Patrol Car During Jaywalking Arrest, and That’s Not Even the Most Infuriating Part
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Former NPR Host Farai Chideya Kisses the Sky
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Farai Chideya, the former host of NPR’s “News and Notes,” remixes the badass trifecta in her debut novel “Kiss the Sky,” a tale of a former rock star whose constant search for happiness in all the wrong places brings her to discover the power within.Chideya opened up to Books…
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05.12.09 Headlines: Sri Lanka Shells Hospital in War Zone, Says 'We Don't Know Nothin' about That'
WSJ: No Free Chicken, but Still Cool: Eight Tuition-Free Colleges WP: Homeownership Among Immigrants Remains Steady: Obama Yaaalll! NYT: Minority Gains in Homeownership Erodes: Um…Obama, Y’all? YH: Tim Brown Says Raiders’ Al Davis Hates Black Athletes from Notre Dame, All 19 of Them NC7: AMBER Alert Still Out for Missing North Carolina Boy ATC: A…
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John Lennon and the Bloody Clothes Exhibit
A new John Lennon exhibit at the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame Annex will be a welcome event for most of the music world. John Lennon was more than just a Beattle; he was an artist, a peace activist and the husband of a Yoko Ono. However, an exhibit that features a paper bag containing the…
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M.I.A.'s Latest Hit: Save Sri Lanka
On The Tavis Smiley Show recently, British-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A turned the much-needed spotlight onto the troubles in her native country. She described the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka as “genocide.” And said her own minority Tamil community was getting little public sympathy for their plight because the Bush administration had labeled them as “terrorists.”…
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Goodbye Beaches, Hello Sofas
The other day I spoke with a friend of mine who was going on a trip to Europe. She said she was “broke,” but I had to quickly bring it to her attention that broke people don’t casually fly off to Germany and then enjoy a quick stay in Paris. Granted, she’s staying with relatives…
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Check Up on The Shack-Ups
Back in the day, when I admonished biological fathers to be hyper-vigilant about who thier babymama’s hooked and shacked up with, I caught alot of flak. Naturally, I was called a “misogynist” (the preferred insult from people who can’t articulate a coherent counter-point) and the like. But there seem to be a rash of boyfriends…
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Whose Stimulus is It?
The Associated Press adds today to a distressingly small body of media-watchdog work on the still unfolding stimulus. AP dug into the transportation dollars, which the White House talked up as a centerpiece of the initiative’s job-creation potential. Turns out shovels full of money are pouring into counties with low unemployment, while the ones struggling…
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The Case of the Black Vulcan
Teresa Wiltz has written a great review for THE ROOT of the new Star Trek prequel. Having never, ever, seen an episode of Star Trek, I surely annoyed my theater companions, when I would ask, persistently: “Are we supposed to know that person?” But I will say that before long, nothing was lost on me,…
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Watching May 11, 2009
Is the end of Vibe near? http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/magazines-newspapers/e3i3afff90a1a8b37533c27f21ab6947f86 Sex-starved Kenyan husband sues over boycott. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/09/kenya.sex.lawsuit/index.html DC rapper Wale gets catching buzz http://bossip.com/109911/wale-the-next-dope-mc/#more-109911 Any thoughts on Wanda Sykes performance at nerd prom? https://www.theroot.com/blogs/browntable/wanda-sykes-sorry-no-marion-barry-jokes Obama’s Fourth of July speech will be in Egypt http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050803843.html Women bullying women more at the workplace? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/10women.html?_r=1&em ‘The Wire’ Writer George Pelecanos’ latest…
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A Cartoonist Says a Million Words
Can we just go ahead and give Tom Toles his next Pulitzer Prize now? If you haven’t been following the veteran cartoonist’s commentary in the WASHINGTON POST this year, you’re missing out. Never mind the millions of words spilled daily trying to sort out the economic disaster unfolding around us. Toles has been making plain…