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Broadway and Me blogger Janice C. Simpson takes a thoughtful look at the reappearance of black face in two recent theater productions.Who would have thought that in the age of Obama, black face and minstrel shows would be making a comeback? But over the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen two very different shows that…

Imprisoning people for helping slaves flee bondage isn’t tight and a Kentucky group is working to have the convicted pardoned by the governor In the 19th century, Kentucky convicted at least 58 people for “seducing or enticing slaves to leave their lawful owners.” Defendants faced 20 years in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, where some died.…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement that nearly half of African-American women are infected with herpes has prompted reactions from panic and shock to outrage and disbelief. The study finds that women and blacks were most likely to be infected. The prevalence of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) was nearly twice as high…

Gabourey Sidibe’s star continues to rise Oscar® nominee Gabourey Sidibe will make her way from the mean streets of ‘80s Harlem in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire to the cushy, modern-day Connecticut suburbs in the new SHOWTIME dark comedy series, THE BIG C. Sidibe, who guest starred in the pilot episode, just…

“There’s some bad in the best of us. A little good in the worst of us. A little freak in all of us.” —T-Pain as Freaknizzle, the Ghost of Freakniks Past, remixes the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in Freaknik: The Musical. For much of the multicultural millennial generation, pop—and hip-hop—culture opened our often-small…

Ignoring the invention of the perm, black chicks are rarely—if ever—susceptible to magic. We don’t go up in pillars of smoke. We don’t disappear down suspect rabbit holes. And we don’t walk into coat closets, never to be heard from again. But somewhere along the journey from slave to soul sister to single lady, we…

When it comes to success, some find it through persistance and perseverance; others stumble upon it by simply being at the right place at the right time. But for Michael C. Martin, a former MTA worker, his big break came in the form of a major car crash. Martin, 30, originally from East New York,…

It’s the closest thing to Armageddon that many Black Greeks have seen since Laurence Fishburne’s character, Dap, ran around the fictitious Mission College campus yelling, “Wake Up!” in the classic movie, School Daze. Stepping, a bastion of black Greek life, has just undergone a revolution, and some black folks are pretty ticked off about it.…