Entertainment

The director is planning to make a post-slavery Black Western, likely because he hated “Django,” according to a report by The Root. “I was deeply hurt by the movie. I was deeply offended by the movie. The movie made me angry,” Daniels said. “[Quentin Tarantino] has no right to our word; he has no right […]

If You Missed It, Originals

Chris Paul runs through sixty-seconds of the disgusting diss on Quvenzhane Wallis, Donald Trump’s opinion on “Django Unchained”, Negro being deleted from the Census and Jermaine Dupri’s concert. ——————- This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. Tempers are still on hot over […]

TV & Film

“Django Unchained,” still the number one film outside of the US, has caused some of the most passionate discussions and debates in a long time. But something less controversial came up recently when Quentin Tarantino admitted Idris Elba was on the list of possible cast members, but he didn’t recruit him because he’s British. “Yeah, […]

Entertainment, Gossip

Lavar Burton contributed, perhaps, the most salient commentary on “Django Unchained” any celebrity of note has made when asked about the film while in New York this week. Burton was in town for the taping of “Pioneers of Television“–which includes an installment focusing on “Roots”–when a TMZ photographer caught up with him. The interview got […]

What better way to get Black people to oppose gun control than to evoke everyone’s new favorite slave, Django — and the thought of being…

News, Top News

OK, I’m going to make one final appeal to black folks to simply stop the nonsense. That would be this business of us dismissing – and dissing – each other as “Uncle Toms,” “house slaves,” “house Negroes” or well, just fill in any term that fits this pattern. Usually, it’s black conservatives and/or Republicans that […]

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Chris Paul jokes with the crew about Beyonce’s alleged lip-synching, the Washington Wizards’ losing, and the “Django Unchained” dolls.

Gossip

Django Unchained star, Jamie Foxx, is the latest entertainer to sharply criticize legendary director Spike Lee over his blanket negative assessment of the film and…

Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Weinstein Co. has asked a toy maker to discontinue a line of “Django Unchained” action figures after receiving complaints that they were offensive. The studio said Friday that such collectibles have been created for all of director Quentin Tarantino’s films, including “Inglourious Basterds,” and that they were meant for people […]

Commentary

Boy, it didn’t take long for haters of “Django Unchained” to get cranked up, did it? If I read between the lines correctly, some people were even hating the film BEFORE it was released on Christmas Day. Enter author, television talk show host and commentator Tavis Smiley, who admits that he hasn’t seen the film. […]

Entertainment

2 Live Crew alum Luther Campbell has jumped into the debate over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” In an op-ed for the Miami New Times, the former rapper weighs in on Spike Lee, who has publicly taken issue with Tarantino’s repeated use of the n-word in “Django’s” script. “Screw Spike Lee,” Campbell begins. “Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django […]