As you well know, or I hope you do, this Sunday is Mother’s day. And I just wanted to spend a moment celebrating ALL the mothers out there. And I do mean ALL the Moms. You know those "single, I never wanted to do this by myself, but this guy just can't get right, so […]

Entertainment

Will Smith isn’t getting older, he’s just getting better. It may have been 22 years since he starred on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and longer than that since he started his rap career, but Big Will, 43, has been doing big things ever since. He is the highest-earning male movie star in Hollywood […]

Entertainment

Single black women on TV didn’t start with “Basketball Wives” and “Single Ladies.” The show “Living Single,” which ran on Fox for five years from 1993-1998, predated those shows, as did “Girlfriends” which started airing in 2000, picking up where “Living Single” left off. For those five years, Queen Latifah, Kim Fields, Erika Alexander and […]

Kevin Frazier discusses the latest Entertainment News Jay-Z, Samuel L. Jackson and The Avengers, Will Smith on his kids

Gossip

We thought Deion and Pilar brought the drama. Well, they do not have anything on Usher Raymond and his ex, Tameka Foster. Wednesday, his ex-wife’s lawyer dropped the bomb in the courtroom,  accusing Usher of havinfg sew with one of Tameka’s bridesmaids, reports TMZ. Usher was being cross-examined by Foster’s lawyer yesterday in Fulton County […]

English athlete Viv Anderson, a.k.a. “Spider,” was the first black football player to represent England in a full international match. In 1974, Anderson joined the Nottingham Forest team, helping them advance to first division, then win the European cup in 1979. As the first black player, Anderson was often in the middle of heavy discrimination […]

TV & Film

The reports of Sony Pictures/Screen Gems’ “Think Like A Man” being banned in France because it was too black are false. Various media outlets, including EURweb, ran the story based on a report in Global Voices which used this quote: “Surprising as it may be, the answer lies in the fact that the film has […]

Gossip

Looks like times have gotten tough for TLC’s T-Boz. T-Boz, whose real names is Tionne Watkins, is being sued by Honda for failing to make payments on her 2005 Honda Odyssey, says TMZ. In the lawsuit, filed in Georgia, Honda asks the judge for the green light to take the car back. It’s unclear how […]

National News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards. The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states more power […]

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Little Known Black History Facts

Jasper, Texas drew national attention in June of 1998 when James Byrd, a black man, was killed by three3 white supremacists. Byrd’s body was discovered by Rodney Pearson, who was the first black highway patrolman in Jasper. For a short while, the city was united, and they even tore down the segregated cemetery walls. Now, […]

The presidential campaign is turning ugly and race will become one of the most emotionally-charged story lines six months before the November election. Here’s why: Republicans plan to spend as much as $500 million to oust Obama from the White House by mounting a series of racially-provocative ads linking President Barack Obama to his former […]