When you hear that a football star has written and produced a movie, you’re probably not thinking it’s one you should run out and see. Well, Baltimore Ravens All-Pro linebacker Terrell Suggs might be the exception. With a fresh Super Bowl ring in hand, maybe an Oscar is next? Well, no, but his movie “The […]

Originals

Have a question for the doctor? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH). — Dr. Sampson Davis often says too many people wait until it’s time to visit the emergency room, but for a lot of conditions, it’s too late for treatment. Davis, perhaps best known for making a pact with high school friends Rameck Hunt and […]

Call it the stadium that got its name by way of the new Jim Crow. Scores of football players, many of them black, will be making money for Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., by catching passes, making tackles, and scrambling into the end zone. And from the looks of things, those FAU Owls […]

Little Known Black History Facts, Originals

Conrad O. Johnson was a legendary music composer and former director of the Kashmere Stage Band in Houston, Texas. Also called “Thunder Soul,” the award-winning band was founded by Johnson at the predominately black Kashmere High School. Under Johnson’s direction, the school band recorded eight albums and became national champions from the 1960’s to 1978. […]

Forget those rumors of trouble in paradise for LeBron James and his fiancée, Savannah Brinson. “Some people have nothing better to do than starting rumors,” Brinson told Gossip Extra‘s Jose Lambiet at a recent Miami society gala. “It’s not because we’re not together 24/7 that we’re having problems.” So, Savannah, are you guys still getting […]

National News, News

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — After attacks by religious extremists, the assassination of an opposition politician and the resignation of the prime minister, Tunisia is now being assailed by… an Internet dance craze. The YouTube phenomenon of the “Harlem Shake” has popped up in spots all over the world, but in Tunisia it’s more than just […]

Life & Style

NEW YORK (AP) — You know the whole thing about a woman’s prerogative to change her mind? Venus Williams can’t do it — at least not when it comes to her tennis wardrobe. She already knows that come August at the U.S. Open, she’ll be wearing a black floral tennis dress, and for tournaments earlier […]

News, Top News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers seeking a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion imprisoned a century ago for his romantic relationships with white women, renewed their efforts on Tuesday. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., John McCain, R-Ariz., and William “Mo” Cowan, D-Mass., joined Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., to reintroduce a resolution […]

National News, News

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup attempt, winning re-election three times and using his country’s vast oil wealth to his political advantage. A self-described “subversive,” Chavez fashioned […]

News, Top News

OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scrawls of racially offensive graffiti and, more recently, a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus have shaken students at historically liberal Oberlin College, one of the nation’s first universities to admit blacks. A day after the school canceled classes and students marched […]

Some people think that celebrities shouldn’t be role models, that role models should be parents, teachers and people who play a part in children’s every day lives.  But let’s face it, many people, me included can point to various ways that famous people have had impacts on our lives. Since it’s Women’s History Month, it’s […]