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Black Face Ain’t the Same As Being Part of the Black Race

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

BLACK FACE AIN’T THE SAME AS BEING PART OF THE BLACK RACE Prairie View A&M (PVAMU) freshman student, Brooke Merino Here in recent years, several White people have chosen to make increasingly popular again, an […]

Original Dreamgirls Star Sheryl Lee Ralph to Return to Broadway

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

The New 411 Sheryl Lee Ralph, who was Tony-nominated for her performance as Deena Jones in the original company of the award-winning musical Dreamgirls, will join the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Wicked” next month. Beginning […]

Film Review: Tyler Perry Back in Drag for ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

by Kam Williams Tyler Perry in ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ No one has ever accused Tyler Perry of being short on ideas. After all, the prolific writer/director has been the brains behind a profusion […]

Gunmen Shoot Up Sign Commemorating Where Emmett Till’s Body Was Found

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley, his mother. Gunmen recently fired bullets into a sign commemorating where Emmett Till’s beaten body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955 after Roy Bryant and his half […]

Renowned White Racist Will Participate in U.S. Senate Debate at a Historically Black College

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

White supremacist David Duke has qualified for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate debate scheduled for November 2 at Dillard University, a Historically Black University based in New Orleans. Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, […]

Black American Author wins Man Booker Prize

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

Black American Author wins Man Booker Prize U.S. author Paul Beatty wins Man Booker Prize Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout, was named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize this week, the first American […]

Felony Disenfranchisement Will Keep Many Blacks From Voting

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

by Frederick Lowe With the 2016 Presidential election around the corner on November 8th, The Sentencing Project is reporting that 6.1 million individuals will be prohibited from voting because of felony convictions and most of […]

How Kevin Hart Made $87.5 Million Last Year

October 25, 2016 Staff 0

For the very first time in several years, Forbes’ annual list of celebrity money-makers has a new comedian topping the list. For years, Jerry Seinfeld topped the list. But for the first time since 2006, […]

President Obama’s Last 100 Days

October 25, 2016 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux The countdown to President Obama’s last one hundred days began on October 13. Already, the President has committed to spending his waning days in office by campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic […]

Netflix’s ’13th’ Explores ‘Modern Slavery’ in Incendiary New Documentary

October 25, 2016 Staff 0

By Pamela Kruger, Fortune.com Ava DuVernay was finishing up her civil rights drama, Selma, when she got a call from a Netflix executive: Would DuVernay be interested in making a documentary? DuVernay, who had previously […]