culture
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There’s No Formula for Being a Great Black Dad
As Father’s Day approaches, I recall that my father, Randall Keith Benjamin Sr., never sat my brothers and me down when we were kids and told us his entire life story. The memories that he shared with us about his childhood were more general summaries than detailed accounts. But he’d offer occasional moments of exposure.…
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Watch: President Obama’s Father’s Day Message
In a Father’s Day message released Saturday, President Barack Obama encouraged men to become more involved in their children’s lives, saying he missed the support of a father while he was growing up. “I know how important it is to have a dad in your life, because I grew up without my father around. I…
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Man Freed by DNA Evidence Faces New Murder Charge
A 53-year-old Chicago man who served about 32 years in prison on a murder and rape conviction before being cleared by DNA evidence in 2012 has been charged with murder in another case, Reuters reports. Andre Davis allegedly told people attending a party at his nephew’s home on Chicago’s South Side in October that he…
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Black TV Dads We Wish Would Adopt Us
To celebrate Father’s Day this year we look back at the black television dads who graced our screens and worked their ways into our hearts. 1. Heathcliff Huxtable, The Cosby Show Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable is perhaps the most revered TV dad. With his humorous life lessons, Cliff made everyone, including the audience, feel like…
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Chicago Steps Up Push to Win Obama Library
Four institutions and one individual in Chicago are making a big push for the city to be the home of Barack Obama’s presidential library, with plans to submit separate bids ahead of Monday’s deadline, Pantagraph reports. The city’s Bronzeville neighborhood, a landmark in the Great Migration, is in competition with the University of Chicago, where…
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Waffle House Customer Shot Dead by Cook, Police Say
A dispute involving unruly costumers at a Georgia restaurant turned deadly early Friday when a cook fired shots, killing a man, WSB-TV 2 reports. Customers reportedly watched in horror as the scene unfolded at 4:30 a.m. at a Waffle House in Fulton County, Ga., the report says. Police told the news station that Adrian Mosley,…
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Black Music Month: Celebrating the Soulful ’70s
What makes the soul, funk and R&B music of the 1970s so unique and powerful? Beyond the fact that it creeps into, nourishes and elevates your mind, body and spirit, it’s the soundtrack of profound change embodying the most prolific and lush period of black cultural expression that we’ve ever experienced. Its beginning was like…
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Watch: New Orleans Woman Sits Down With Wine Glass for Her Own Funeral
Funerals are used to commemorate and remember what we loved best about our loved ones, and Miriam Burbank was sent off with a bang. Propped up in a chair in a dining table-type setting, Burbank was posed with a case of Busch beer at her feet, a menthol cigarette tucked between her fingers, with a…
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Forbes: Michael Jordan Is Now a Billionaire
Legendary basketball player Michael Jordan is now a member of the billionaires’ club, according to Forbes magazine. The Associated Press reports that on Thursday the magazine estimated Jordan’s equity in the Charlotte Hornets at $416 million, and his net worth—not including the NBA team—at $600 million, bringing his total value to more than $1 billion.…
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L.A. Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Hiring Private Eyes to Dig Up Dirt on NBA
The NBA regime better hope they don’t have anything to hide because embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is reportedly hiring a private investigator to look for dirt on all them. According to the Associated Press, Sterling, who is suing the NBA for $1 billion after Sterling was heard making racist remarks to alleged…