Friday, January 30
*LOS ANGELES – OneUnited Bank, the nation’s largest black-owned bank, and the prestigious African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) present “Money On My Mind: Film & TV Industry,” on Saturday, Jan. 31st from 4:00p.m.-7:30 p.m., at OneUnited Bank (3863 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90016). The event, scheduled to coincide with the Association’s 6th Annual […]
*(Via MSN News) – A Texas man convicted of killing a 38-year-old woman nearly two decades ago while he was on parole for a triple slaying years earlier was executed Thursday evening. Robert Ladd, 57, received lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments he was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty. […]
*(Los Angeles) – The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), the premiere organization of black film journalists, is launching its first ever AAFCA Awards Weekend of events, featuring an entertainment industry career panel and an exclusive, invitation-only dinner leading up to its signature AAFCA Awards ceremony, which honors the best in film and television content, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of an unarmed man fatally shot by a police officer in a Brooklyn housing project stairway said Thursday that…
*In praising his co-stars of the film “Black or White,” Anthony Mackie has revealed a rather dubious practice that happened to him on a past film set. The 36-year-old actor and veteran of close to 50 films says that some of his award winning co-stars in the past have pulled him to the side and […]
*The school that Deion Sanders founded in 2012 is in danger of losing its charter. Prime Prep Academy is said to be in serious financial crisis, according to members of the former administration. According to The Dallas Morning News, it’s not certain if the school can survive until the end of this school year. The […]
I do not envy Michelle Obama’s (pictured) position. No matter how innocuous her actions are — say, simply tackling childhood obesity with exercise and carrots…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixteen million children were on food stamps as of last year, the highest number since the nation’s economy tumbled in 2008. Numbers…
*LAPD rushed to the Los Angeles-area home of Diddy’s baby mama Kim Porter in response to a death threat and gunfire call, but it may just be another incident of “swatting,” reports TMZ. According to law enforcement sources, cops got a call early Thursday that a disturbing letter threatening to kill everybody in the house […]
*A judge in New York City has reversed a ruling banning Marvin Gaye’s heirs from playing the late star’s music in court as part of a copyright battle over Robin Thicke’s hit “Blurred Lines.” Thicke and his collaborator Pharrell Williams are currently locked in a legal battle with Gaye’s children over claims their 2013 hit […]
*Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch took a different approach to his non-answers today during his mandatory Super Bowl media availability. Instead of choosing a line to repeat as the answer to every question, he opened up his five minutes by chastising the press for gathering to interview him every day, when they know he […]
*There’s a lot of single African American women out there, right? That’s a rhetorical question. We already know the answer. So when someone who has been married for a decade, has nurtured amazing children, is recognized as a highly educated professor and successful entrepreneur, and on top of all that, held the title that showed […]
*Nicki Minaj, Avicii and Drake are set to headline the Wireless Festival this year. Minaj will take top billing at the annual three-day British music event this summer. It will be her first return to the festival since appearing on the bill in 2012, while Drake had to pull out of headlining Wireless last year […]
Well-known N.Y.C. activist Edward “Noche” Diaz (pictured left of center) of the Revolutionary Communist Party made his latest court appearance Thursday morning, answering charges stemming from arrests…
*No, it’s not a scene from the final season of “Glee.” These are the students of A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas and their theater teacher, Scot Pankey, in a one-take video for the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit “Uptown Funk.” Pankey tells the Dallas Morning News that it was done as one of the […]
*Los Angeles – Oh, the teen angst of those high school years! No matter how old you are, memories of high school, whether good or bad, seem to always linger. Well, “Bring It On” meets “Friday Night Lights” in the new flick “At the Top of the Pyramid” by Slamgate Productions in conjunction with the […]
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