Originals
03/05/14- Tom and the crew open the show talking about the NBA and women with new wombs.
Now that Being Mary Jane is on hiatus until it returns for its second season on BET, it’s hard to get an Omari Hardwick fix. He played cheating married man Andre Daniels on the show, and at the season’s end, it looked unlikely that he would be back. Fortunately, he and 50 Cent have teamed […]
9-year-old Asean Jackson has had it up to here with Chicago politicians. He lets them know in an impassioned speech to protest school closures in Chicago. The Chicago public school district shut down 49 schools most in minority districts last year, forcing children to go to unfamiliar schools in different neighborhoods. Although the idea was […]
03/04/14- Comedian Chris Paul runs through the day’s hottest stories including Obama’s handling of a heckler and a Kenyan preacher’s strange request.
”Dancing With The Stars” will return for its 18th season this month with a famous reality star and a Hollywood icon among the celebs vying for the Mirrorball. Announced among the cast this morning were NeNe Leakes of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta” and acting legend Billy Dee Williams. They’ll join “The Wonder Years” star […]
03/04/14- Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Audrey Davis, Director of the Alexandria Black History Museum about Alexandria, Virginia and it’s connection to “12 Years a Slave”.
A group of black students at Harvard are making a powerful statement about the institutional racism they say they have experienced through an eye-opening photography project. “Our voices often go unheard on this campus, our experiences are devalued, our presence is questioned,” their website, itooamharvard.tumblr.com, says. “This project is our way of speaking back, of […]
03/04/14- “Seriously Ignorant” correspondent Damon Williams gives us the most ignorant headlines of the week including a story about a man who shot up a tax return office.
President Obama to Heckler: ‘What the Heck Are You Talking About?’ (Watch) President Barack Obama had to deal with a heckler during a speech Friday at, of all places, a meeting of the Democratic National Committee. After slamming Republicans for getting “all stirred up” over his plan to unilaterally act to “help middle class families,” […]
For iPhone users: Let’s get this straight: yes, it’s rare for someone who looks like Lupita Nyong’o to capture the Hollywood spotlight. However, don’t dare fall into the trap of thinking that someone who looks like her … is actually rare. Nyong’o is gorgeous. But not because Hollywood said so, and dare I say, her […]
03/04/14- Sybil Wilkes discusses today’s news headlines including the latest on Ukraine.
In Richmond, Va, there are plans to build a minor league baseball park near and on top of a historic slave burial ground and former marketplace. The new park for the Flying Squirrels team would mean the construction of a 7,200 seat stadium, a new hotel, over 700 new apartments and a grocery store. It […]
