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A Veep Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
The Buzz gives props to Vice President Joe Biden (and to the nation’s Second Lady, Dr. Jill Biden). And Friday, President Barack Obama did as well—not wanting to squander the considerable abilities of Smokin’ Joe, the former U.S. Senate lion also known as Amtrak’s best customer, today he introduced Biden as Chair of The White…
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Flipping the Script
A funny thing happened to the movie New in Town on the way to your local multiplex: Angela Bassett morphed into Gabrielle Union, who then became Renée Zellweger. This is not entirely shocking. “Colorblind” casting has been around for a while. Remember that the drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman was slated to…
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A Jury of Your Peers
Come 2015, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be standing on the National Mall, 800 feet away from the National Monument. What exactly will be standing in that space, hasn’t been decided. But The New York Times’ Arts Beat blog says, six architectural teams will be duking it out for the…
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Who Chooses the Super Bowl Host City?
On Sunday, the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers will duke it out in Super Bowl XLIII. This year, the game will be held in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.—far from the intense wintry weather in the North. The last three Super Bowls were played at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.,…
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Black Coaches, Now What?
When Coach Mike Tomlin leads his Pittsburgh Steelers on the field Sunday evening for Super Bowl XLIII, he will be the third African American to coach in the big game in two years. In 2007, two black coaches, Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears, led their teams into…
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Redman’s Compass, Ever Steady
When saxophonist Joshua Redman arrived on the jazz scene 18 years ago, it marked a new phase in a healthy jazz revival that has propelled the music into Lincoln Center and other upper reaches of institutionalized culture. Redman’s latest release, Compass may, again, signal a new and important phase in jazz. The release is Redman’s…
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Black Conservatives Listen Up
The GOP stands poised today to elect its first black party chairman and/or its first black female co-chairman at its annual winter meeting in Washington, D.C. Whatever happens, most black people will hardly care because most blacks simply do not care what Republicans do. Ninety-six percent of us voted for President Barack Obama, and more…
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Sandra Laing: Born Black with White Parents
The story has been circulating from quite some time. South African Sandra Laing was born and classified as “coloured” in the 1950s, but both parents were “white”. And certainly that’s genetically possible: white parents bringing home a bouncing baby girl whose complextion is a bit more golden than theirs and whose hair shows a bit…
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Blags is OUT
Even a tour of talk-shows couldn’t save Gov. Rod Blagojevich from the inevitable impeachment, by a vote of 59-0. Blags can no longer hold elected office in the state of Illlinois ever. I think there is a book deal on the horizon, almost certainly, so I wouldn’t cry for dude just yet. Lt. Gov. Patrick…
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Barry Bonds may be busted yet.
Somehow, somone found some “classic piss” that may yet prove that baller Barry Bonds was taking steroids. I guess I want to know who kept this pee, and how we know it belongs to Bonds? I’m pretty sure Bonds was juicing, but have never been altogether comfortable with the way he’s being singled out—like half…