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*BIRMINGHAM, AL – Wells Fargo today announced its support of a wide variety of programs and events as part of Birmingham’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights movement, “50 Years Forward.” Throughout 2013, as part of the year-long celebration, Wells Fargo will provide financial support for the following organizations and programs. Birmingham Civil Rights [...]
*The family of Emmett Till is not letting Lil Wayne off the hook after spitting an offensive line about the slain teenager. The rapper is featured in a new Mountain Dew ad, but the family wants him completely dropped. Wayne has been targeted by the family over his verse on Future‘s “Karate Chop” remix. On the [...]
*”We Shall Overcome” is one of the most meaningful songs of the entire African American experience and is almost synonymous with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement. The Library of Congress named it “the most powerful song of the 20th century.” But who wrote it, who owns it, and whose pimping it? Those [...]
*There are numerous anecdotes recounted in the HBO documentary “Ethel” that illuminate the seldom-discussed personal lives of Ethel Kennedy and her late husband Robert Kennedy, but two memories are particularly noteworthy for underscoring his long-held commitment to racial equality. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In 1951, the newly-married Robert Kennedy was finishing his final year at [...]
*In the beginning of The Princess Bride after Vizzini repeatedly uses the word “inconceivable” another character tells him: “I do not think it means what you think it means.” That basic disagreement about a word is used for a laugh in the movie but the idea that people can hear a word, see a scene, [...]
*Many argue that activism within black churches has declined (if not disappeared) since the days of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, says the New York Times. But last month, on King’s birthday, a group of African American faith leaders called for Americans to “Occupy the Dream” with protests at Federal Reserve banks. If black [...]
*Two prominent African-American officials in New Jersey have harshly criticized Gov. Chris Christie for statements related to his proposal to put the issue of same-sex marriage to a popular vote in November, says BET.com. Christie, a Republican, said that the leaders of the civil rights movement would have happily placed the causes they championed to a public vote. Earlier in [...]
*In Harry Belafonte’s recent HBO documentary “Sing Your Song,” the singer/activist spoke about recruiting his famous friends, including singer Tony Bennett, to join him in Alabama to support Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. Earlier this month, during a Television Critics Association panel for his PBS special “Tony Bennett: Duets [...]
*You’re on the clock! Quick! Who is Medgar Evers? Who is Rosa Parks? When was the March on Washington and why did it occur? Who are the Little Rock Nine? What is Brown vs. Board of Education and how does it affect us today? Who is Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise [...]
*When the cast of NBC’s “The Playboy Club” faced a room full of TV critics in Beverly Hills last month, cast member Jenifer Lewis took the lead in defending the series against allegations that the show – set in 1963 – glorifies the exploitation of women. One of the clear talking points the cast used [...]
*Actress Viola Davis addresses the elephant in the room regarding her forthcoming film “The Help.” There has already been frustration expressed from those who simply heard that two-time Academy Award nominee Viola Davis is playing a maid in her next movie – without knowing anything about her character from the book upon which the film [...]
*Big Spence, graduate of the Sacramento area’s Del Campo High (DC) in 2002 is back in town working on the new feature film Ivy. Many of you know him as Marcus Spencer, football phenom from DC but now he goes by ‘Big Spence’ christened with the name by non other than 4 time Grammy-Award Winner [...]
*Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain says President Obama is “not a strong black man” in the mold of Martin Luther King Jr. The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, who is the only black candidate among the major Republican hopefuls, expanded on his views about Obama in an interview with The New York Times magazine. In [...]
*By winning Tuesday’s race for mayor in Chicago, President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel delivered a major blow to the prestige of Black political leadership in the Windy City. Emanuel captured 55 percent of the vote trouncing the candidate of the Black political establishment former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun who managed to [...]
*In Greeley Colorado, near Denver, a DJ, who is also a local school board member seems a little mystified that some folks don’t exactly appreciate his commentaries about Martin Luther King jr. Brett Reese (pictured) has been reading a viewer’s letter critical of Dr. King twice a day on Greeley’s 104.7 Pirate Radio station. He [...]
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