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Entertainment, Movies

‘The Bridge to Opportunity’: Netflix Honors Music Executive Clarence Avant in New Documentary The Black Godfather

“He wasn’t there, but he was right there.” These days, when you hear the term “influencer,” one may think of perfectly placed and filtered sponsored ads on Instagram racking up hundreds of thousands of likes within minutes. Well, when you think of the original meaning of the term, one man who embodied it was Clarence…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

May 23, 2019
News

Feds Charge Ex-Fugees Pras of Campaign Finance Fraud in the 2012 US Presidential Election

Pras, aka the “other” Fugee, is facing federal charges of campaign finance fraud in the 2012 U.S. presidential election in a case involving an international fugitive financier and a Malaysian investment fund. Pras, government name Prakazrel Michel, is accused of helping Malaysian financier Jho Low, who’s been on the run from authorities for years, make…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

May 10, 2019
News

Barack Obama's Memoir Could Arrive Just in Time to Disrupt Trump's Reelection Campaign

For those eagerly anticipating Barack Obama’s post-White House memoir, you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer. USA Today reports that Publisher Penguin Random House began alerting foreign partners and others about the status of the memoir on Tuesday, and the word on the street is that the book won’t be released until 2020,…

By

Jay Connor

Published

May 9, 2019
News

Kellyanne Conway, Asked by No One, Offers Opinion on Obama After Clinton Loss in '16

Kellyanne Conway has managed to run afoul of quite a few people during her time as a member of Donald Trump’s braintrust. While using nearly every appearance on national television to muddy the waters of dialogue with half-truths, whole lies and missing hairspray, she has managed to flummox, flabbergast, and vex nearly every on-air personality…

By

Ibn Safir

Published

May 4, 2019
Politics

Trump Nominee Stephen Moore Fails Miserably at Defending Racist Public Housing Joke About Obama

If there’s a redeeming quality for racists, it’s that they’re generally crystal clear on where they stand. Their flawed logic is brazen and upfront. They do a terrible job of concealing their bigotry and xenophobia, so why even try to? They call me a “shining monkey” or a “nigger” to my face so I can…

By

Jay Connor

Published

May 1, 2019
Entertainment

Presidential Production: Barack and Michelle Obama Announce New Netflix Slate, Including a Frederick Douglass Biopic

In case you needed a reminder, Barack and Michelle Obama became the strongest black leads when they signing an exclusive multiyear production deal with Netflix in 2018. Now, the time has come to see what they’ve got cookin’ (with ample seasoning, because black) in the production house. The former (and forever) president and first lady…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

May 1, 2019
Black Excellence, Culture

Now That Obama Boulevard is Officially a Thing, Here's How Los Angeles Plans to Celebrate

On the 2018 Beyoncé-infused “Black Effect,” Jay-Z nonchalantly professed “I’m good on every MLK,” keenly aware that civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. has roads sprinkled throughout the country carrying his namesake. But on the flip side, our forever president Barack Obama—whose own iconic status wasn’t solidified until January 20, 2009—is understandably running a…

By

Jay Connor

Published

April 30, 2019
Politics

Obama Had Biden Pump His Breaks on '16 Presidential Bid: Report

According to a New York Times feature describing the relationship between the former presidential partners, President Barack Obama urged Joe Biden, his Vice President, not to run. According to the times, Obama “gently pressed” Biden on his 2016 aspirations over the span of a few weeks before having a strategist deliver a sobering assessment to…

By

Ibn Safir

Published

April 28, 2019
News

69-Year-Old Militia Leader Accused of Harassing Migrants on the US-Mexico Border Boasted of Aim to Kill Obama, Clinton: Report

Guess we could have seen this one coming. The 69-year-old leader of an armed militia group accused of rounding up migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and holding them at gunpoint before turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol told the FBI his group was training to kill Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and prominent Democratic donor George…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

April 23, 2019
Entertainment, Music

Nipsey Hussle Celebrated as a Visionary Activist at Public Memorial in Los Angeles

Tens of thousands of people packed Los Angeles’ 21,000-capacity Staples Center Thursday while many others stood outside and gathered throughout the city as fans, friends and family bid farewell to Nipsey Hussle at a public memorial. Billed as a “Celebration of Life,” the memorial brought people together from throughout Los Angeles and beyond. Scripture was…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

April 11, 2019