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*Walmart is the Michael Jackson of retail stores/convenience stores/drugstores because people just can’t get enough! And like MJ, there’s always some sort of controversy too. They’ve been trying to take Walmart down, a peg or two, but nothing seemed to stick until now. Huffington Post reporters may have discovered a way to, at least, expose [...]
*In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, singer Kenny Lattimore shared his philosophy about education and teaching through music. He recently extended the reach of the Kenny Lattimore Foundation and has gotten involved with the United Negro College Fund’s Empower Me Tour. “It’s been really fantastic. I have a seminar that I host called [...]
Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, the most wanted man in the world, has been killed, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said today. The flamboyant tyrant who terrorized his country and much of the world during his 42 years of despotic rule was reportedly cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gaddafi had been born [...]
*In a survey it was found that almost all Americans say they believe in God. Aa majority say they pray and more than a third say they go to religious services every week. But in a new book on religious trends in the United States, a Duke University professor says this picture of an unflinchingly faithful [...]
*Christina Norman has a new job. The executive who served as CEO of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network for just two years, before being removed in May due to the network’s poor ratings performance, has been hired as the new executive editor of Black Voices, which AOL Huffington Post Media Group is expected to [...]
*In an interview with The Huffington Post, Juan Williams called out NPR as an “all-white organization” that exhibited the “worst of white condescension” in its handling of his firing last year. The interview was conducted before the most recent controversy surrounding an NPR executive’s comments about the tea party, and CEO Vivian Schiller’s decision to [...]
*In an effort to revitalize AOL since he took over as CEO two years ago, Tim Armstrong is recruiting an army of Hollywood heavyweights. His latest acquisition: Queen Latifah, as the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter reports. Starting this spring, she will produce and star in AOL web series about sports, entertainment and entrepreneurialism, [...]
*Former Essence magazine editor Angela Burt-Murray, who was point person for the Huffington Post’s new project targeting African Americans, has left the project, Derek J. Murphy, chief operating officer of the venture, told Journal-isms on Thursday. “I’m currently managing staff recruiting and site development with our partnership team. Angela Burt Murray is no longer part [...]
*The equivalent of an earthquake just rumbled through the online publishing world with the news that Arianna Huffington is selling the left leaning Huffington Post blog/Internet newspaper to AOL Inc. for $315 million in cash. The deal, which both parties announced Sunday evening, will move the co-founder of HuffPost to the position of president and [...]
*A man who lectures against inner-city violence for an allegedly fraudulent charity was charged with domestic battery for reportedly punching a woman in the face inside a parked car, reports the Huffington Post. Warren Jackson is a motivational speaker who works for a charitable organization called We Stop the Killings. He was arrested last Friday [...]
*The Huffington Post is teaming with BET co-founder Sheila Johnson to launch a HuffPost section devoted to African-Americans. Due in early March, “HuffPost GlobalBlack” will “cover more stories of importance to the black community,” says Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the New York-based blog. “We have the supreme irony of having the first [...]
*(Moving into 2011) what black folks need now, is not to be told that somehow President Obama is going to save them. President Obama is a brilliant man, but number one, he sort of has his hands full, and number two, it’s not President Obama’s job to save black folks. That was my mother’s job. [...]
*In an interview with AP writer Mesfin Fekadu, actress Taraji P. Henson agrees that minorities were not represented enough at the Emmys – and there are too few working in Hollywood. Henson says “there were several times when I didn’t even want to watch the Emmys because I mean, who am I looking at?” Henson [...]
*Regina King is not happy with Hollywood. The award winning actress is so perturbed about the lack of inclusion of blacks and people of color at the recent Emmy awards that she wrote an open letter to Huffington Post to say so. Oh yeah, King, 39, also points out how Rutina Wesley, the twenty something [...]
*(Via AJC.com) Morehouse College is among the country’s most grueling colleges according to a listing released Thursday by the Huffington Post. The all-male school is the only HBCU listed among the likes of MIT, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, Caltech and the U.S. naval Academy. The school’s commitment to upholding standards of excellence as well [...]
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