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Courtesy of: Robin Akinwale – Radio One Baltimore, WOLBBatimore.com Pictured: Cathy Hughes with Radio One Baltimore Cathy Hughes, Founder, Chairperson of the Board and Secretary of Radio One, Inc. was honored with the Distinguished Civil Rights Advocate Award by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in conjunction with the National Bar Association Wednesday […]
President Obama isn’t the most popular man in the country according to many polls right now, so a gift is probably the last thing he’s expecting aside from the people in his inner circle. But we wanted to come up with a list of things we think he needs after going through 2 stressful years […]
Ever seen two children play fighting out on the street, in your neighborhood or a nearby park? What would you do? What if one of those children were your own and they were getting the wind knocked out of them? Would you join in? Would you help them fight? Ever been approached by another parent […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
This morning, Roland Martin invited former NPR reporter Juan Williams to call in the show this morning to talk about his book, “Muzzled”. In his book he tells his side about being fired from NPR, and how he believes the company’s actions were an assault on free speech. In case you missed the interview, you […]
(via BlackThespian.com) Will and Jada Pinkett Smith grace the cover of September’s Architectural Digest. Â Hollywood’s First Family welcomed the magazine into their 25,000 sq. ft. Malibu residence, which features 9 bedrooms, basketball and tennis courts, a lake, and a meditation room. For Jada Pinkett Smith, the most important consideration in designing their home was that […]
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 […]