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*Morgan Freeman, one of President Obama’s strongest supporters, shocked an NPR interviewer this week when he said that America has yet to see its “first black president.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] According to The Hollywood Reporter, Freeman was trying to make a point that some people oppose Obama because of his race, when in [...]
*First lady Michelle Obama weighed in on the Travyon Martin case today during an interview with NPR. “My heart goes out to the parents, because we all as parents understand the tragedy of that kind of loss, and I think that’s really the thing that most people connect to,” Obama said. “And it’s important for [...]
*During an interview with NPR to promote his new country album, Lionel Richie revealed that he was once told by a radio station that “Easy Like Sunday Morning,” which he wrote and originally performed with his former group The Commodores, was ”not black enough.” The singer wrote the track after being told his previous effort [...]
*Writer-actor-comedian Larry Wilmore will co-star opposite Mike Vogel in Fox’s “Living Loaded,” a single-camera comedy pilot from the “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” duo of Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell and FX Prods, reports Deadline.com. Based on the book of the same name by Dan Dunn, “Living Loaded” centers on Dan (Vogel), the loose partying [...]
*In 2005, a report surfaced that actor Idris Elba was being considered as the next James Bond. Six years after the franchise chose Daniel Craig, the actor is still being asked about making the shortlist for the iconic role. “It’s a rumor,” the British star told NPR this week. “It’s a very old rumor. My [...]
*Turning 50 is hard enough. But it’s got to be even harder when you’re president, because the whole world knows about it, and harder still when one of life’s milestones is nearly overshadowed by a nasty tussle with Congress over money. Well, too bad for President Barack Obama. That’s exactly how the big 5-0 is [...]
*So why did she agree to do it in the first place is what some are asking after Ilyasah Shabazz walked out of an interview about her father, Malcolm X. Richard Prince’s Journal-isms is reporting that the incident happened Wednesday after NPR’s Michel Martin asked Shabazz about controversial passages in Manning Marable’s new book “Malcolm [...]
*Conservative news analyst Juan Williams is as great as his more popular cohorts (i.e. Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh) at stirring up controversy … except they don’t get fired for it. Just last year, Williams was fired from his post on National Public Radio (NPR) for his remarks on Fox News when he said he gets nervous when he sees Muslims [...]
*The top news official at National Public radio will leave her post following an investigation into the firing last October of news analyst Juan Williams, according to sources familiar with the matter. NPR had been set to announce Friday that senior vice president for news Ellen Weiss would step down after a law firm that [...]
*Jazz pianist and media personality Billy Taylor died of a heart attack in New York City Tuesday (Dec. 28), The Washington Post reported Wednesday. He was 89. Taylor, who grew up in Washington and moved to New York City in the early 1940s, played alongside Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. He was also [...]
*In a TV interview this morning, Juan Williams said he was not surprised that NPR fired him this week. “I think they were looking for a reason to get rid of me. That they were uncomfortable with the idea that I was talking to the likes of Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity,” he told George [...]
*Former NPR analyst Juan Williams should been canned at NPR for his silly, bigoted crack about Muslims making him nervous. But NPR if it had the ounce of integrity and fairness that it incessantly brags about should have dumped Williams a long time ago for his equally great offense. And that’s his two decade con [...]
*NPR senior news analyst Juan Williams was fired Wednesday night after making comments about Muslims during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” the New York Times reported. During Monday’s appearance on the show, Williams, who is also a political analyst for Fox News, was asked by host Bill O’Reilly to address to [...]
*Taylor Swift did her do on the VMA stage Sunday, performing her debut song dedicated to her “best friend” Kanye West, “Innocent.” But she received mixed reviews from folks saying that it was a bit overdone, ridiculous, and frankly unnecessary. Before belting out her solemn sounds of forgiveness, a rewind of the dreadfully hilarious moment [...]
* The White House Correspondents Association has reportedly reached a decision on who gets Helen Thomas’s much-coveted briefing room seat. AP moves to Helen’s center seat, Fox to AP’s front-row seat, NPR to 2nd row. Mediaite.com writes: It’s an interesting shuffle and no doubt some speculation will go into why Fox, who pushed hard for [...]
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