Curtis Bunn sure knows how to throw a book party. The National Book Club Conference, Bunn’s popular annual creation, was held this past weekend at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. The multi-talented Tyrese Gibson was there promoting his provocative new book, How to Get Out of your Own Way. Roland Martin received the Terrie Williams […]
LOS ANGELES — Charles “Bubba” Smith who played nine seasons in the NFL and starred in six “Police Academy” movies as officer Hightower,  has died at 66. TMZ reports: Law enforcement officials tell TMZ … LAPD received a 911 call at 12:54PM today — and officers responded to his home in the Baldwin Hills area. […]
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is suing the Obama Administration in response to a law that requires gun dealers along the Mexican border to report  bulk sales of semi-automatic rifles. Enacted to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain military style weapons from America, the law requires gun merchants in Arizona, California, […]
Despite successful efforts to quell the rate of new HIV infections among African-Americans, a particular sliver of the community — young Black gay and bisexual men — are being infected at an alarming rate. According to a new report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Black gay and bisexual men of all ages […]
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson likely will stay overnight at a hospital after suffering a seizure at training camp at Lehigh University, trainer Rick Burkholder said Wednesday. Patterson dropped to the ground between plays during a morning practice, and the player began violently shaking. He was immediately tended to by Burkholder and […]
Anybody who knows TV personality/journalist Gayle King knows she’s the last person you probably would invite to a Hip Hop after party, concert or the club. Not there’s anything wrong, but she just doesn’t seem like a serious club head who’s down to get high off marijuana in that type of setting. Maybe that’s the […]
Sean Kingston says doctors performed open heart surgery on him after his Memorial Day weekend jet ski crash. When Kingston was being released from the hospital, doctors discovered a heart condition that required immediate surgery, the singer told Sway Calloway during an MTV interview. “I had open heart surgery and I had two other surgeries […]
The Obama Administration filed suit on Monday against the state of Alabama’s enforcement of its newly passed immigration law. The suit challenges H.B. 56, a law set to take effect in September that enforces some of the toughest immigration efforts in the nation. If put into effect, H.B. 56 would enforce the detention of undocumented […]
CALIFORNIA — Organizers and inmates in California are rallying on Monday against the state’s prion system for poor living conditions and other practices they say amount to systematic abuse and torture. The rally comes after inmates in four of the states prisons waged a hunger strike that lasted nearly a month long in protest of […]
While the full details of the recent debt ceiling deal signed by President Obama have yet to be released to the public, many pundits and political experts are claiming that the hardest hit groups will be the poor and minorities. Since the deal was signed, President Obama has been criticized by the Congressional Black Caucus […]
WASHINGTON — Conservative groups are condemning new guidelines that require health insurers to cover birth control with no co-pay. The most extreme objection has come from Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) who said on Monday that offering free birth control to women could kill ofF the entire human race. Well if you applied that preventative medicine […]
(via Entertainment Weekly) Diversity has come to Metropolis!  In a surprising but exceptional act of color blind casting, actor Laurence Fishburne has been tapped to play The Daily Planet’s editor-in-chief Perry White in the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. Fishburne’s character  will  crack the whip when it comes his two star reporters, Lois Lane and […]
