culture
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Stars of Color Dominate Vanity Fair 2014 Hollywood Issue Cover
Something is different about this year’s Vanity Fair Hollywood issue cover, and it may have a lot to do with the array of brown faces staring out from the glossy pages. This year, six black stars share the cover alongside six of their white counterparts, all stylishly attired and flawlessly done up. Up-and-coming idols Lupita…
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Dissecting the Chocolatey Cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue
The cover of Vanity Fair’s 2014 Hollywood issue is just oozing chocolate goodness: Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan and Naomie Harris—just to name a few. Below is an impromptu interview, in the form of a Gchat conversation, with Elizabeth Ozemebhoya, a former staffer at a Los Angeles entertainment agency. She waxes about who’s…
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Alleged Aaron Hernandez Shooting Victim Shot Again Outside Connecticut Club
Alexander Bradley, who was allegedly shot in the face by former football star Aaron Hernandez, was shot again—this time in the right thigh—Sunday night at Vevo Lounge Bar and Grill in Hartford, Conn., New York’s Daily News reports. The wounded man then left the building, retrieved a .45-caliber gun from a car and fired 11…
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Black Quarterback Wins Super Bowl: Where’s the Fuss?
Disney couldn’t write a better story: A short kid, much too short to play quarterback, won’t let that fighting spirit in him die. So he plays in high school, both ways: quarterback on offense and cornerback on defense. Hell, he even punted the ball. His high school coach called him a one-man wrecking crew. He…
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Study: Frequent Discrimination Leaves Young African Americans at Risk for Disease
Frequent discrimination during youth puts African Americans at risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and even stroke later in life, a new study has found, EurekAlert reports. According to the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia and Emory University, 20-year-old African Americans who had reported repeated discrimination during their childhood…
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Study: Black Children Twice as Likely to Be Readmitted to a Hospital for Asthma
African-American children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma, a new report from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has discovered, according to The Enquirer. About 23 percent of black children were readmitted to the hospital within a year, while only 11 percent of other children participating…
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Promoters Worried About George Zimmerman’s Safety in Fight
Looks like George Zimmerman’s celebrity boxing match could take a drastic turn for the worse—or at least that’s what promoters of the fight are worried about. According to TMZ, the boxing match will take place in a secret location. The promoter are worried that if the venue becomes public, people will attend merely to hurt…
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The Realities of Being the Other Woman
Television viewers turn on their flat screens and computers in an effort to escape the realities of life. However, current dramas and reality shows may force us to confront conflict in our own homes. After watching the movie and the first three episodes of Being Mary Jane, the memories of my own adulterous affair have…
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When White Men Mess Up, All Is Forgiven
This was not a great week for white men. And what we may have learned is a lesson that should be obvious but is not always apparent, with the media spotlight usually affixed on people of color and their poor choices or misfortunes. The lesson is that white men can succumb to drugs, even if…
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Black Boys and ADHD: Biology or Culture Clash?
A black Brooklyn couple sit in their car waiting to hear what New York City’s elite Dalton School has to say about their son now. The dad wonders: “The question is, what is it about Idris that makes him disruptive?” They take turns reading the school’s latest communiqué: “Talks out of turn continuously … impulse…