Black Entertainment | Black News | Urban News | Hip Hop News | Black Entertainment
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “I have learned over the years that when [...]
*President Obama joined members of Congress Wednesday to unveil a new full-length statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol Building’s Statuary Hall. Parks takes her “rightful place among those who shaped this nation’s course,” Obama said at the ceremony. The 9-foot statue shows Parks seated, commemorating the moment in December 1955 when [...]
*President Barack Obama will join Democratic and Republican congressional leaders next week for the ceremony to unveil a statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks at the U.S. Capitol—the first statue of an African-American woman in the halls of Congress. In 1955, Parks, a Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, was convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “It’s not the load that breaks you down, [...]
*This morning, PETA sent a letter to Patricia Mooradian, president of the Henry Ford Museum, urging her to serve only vegetarian food in the facility’s three restaurants during the National Day of Courage commemoration of Rosa Parks‘ 100th birthday on February 4. In its letter, PETA points out that peace and justice should be extended [...]
*Just a few days after his birthday, the family of Dr. Martin Luther King is in a bit of a tangle. The estate recently filed a lawsuit against Baude Ballou, the civil rights leader’s former secretary, over documents that she currently possesses. Ballou became Dr. King’s right hand shortly after the arrest of Rosa Parks [...]
*The racial hotbed we find ourselves lying in every time a right wing activist opens their mouth is no surprise. We have learned to expect it. Ted Nugent has run his mouth in the wrong direction for a loooong time. He is not a stranger to controversy over his right wing, NRA views. He has [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE I have learned over the years that when [...]
*During a visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan this week, President Barack Obama took a moment to board one of its big attractions – the Montgomery, Ala. city bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Obama later reflected on the moment at a fundraiser in suburban Detroit. “I just [...]
*A first-person essay written by Rosa Parks presents a detailed and harrowing account of a young black housekeeper who is nearly raped by a white neighbor. Looking like a remembrance from Parks’ own life, an expert called it an exciting find that might help explain her lifelong advocacy. But on Friday an institute created by [...]
*If you are a fan of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA),” you are in for a treat with this spoof of the show. “The Real Housewives of Civil Rights” parallels the different events of RHOA from Cynthia’s “friendship contract” with NeNe and on to the showdown between NeNe and Cynthia’s husband. (more…)
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “It is only when we truly know and [...]
*(Via Washington Post) You would certainly expect black and white women to shop at the same stores, luxuriate in the same spas, even frequent the same makeup counters. And more than five decades after Rosa Parks held on to her bus seat, they do. But there was one beauty barrier that was never breached: hair [...]
*Today marked the 55th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott and the rise of Rosa Parks into a place of national honor for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. At the Smithsonian Institution’s website, the historians used one of their new features — a weekly Smithsonian Snapshot that offers a peek [...]
*In the name of Rosa Parks, Kanye West insists that artists boycott Arizona over its controversial new immigration law, which makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. The rapper is supporting Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha, who is spearheading the campaign against Arizona’s recently passed law. West is backing the [...]
Recent Comments