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*Uh oh. Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West and Wal-Mart done gone and pissed off some “community leaders.” According to a press release from Project Islamic HOPE’s Najee Ali, a coalition of Los Angeles, clergy, civil rights, Wal-Mart associates and community leaders are accusing the PBS talk show host of hypocrisy and being a pawn [...]
*An African American man who says he suffered emotional distress when he heard a hijacked public address announcement at a Wal-Mart store in New Jersey telling all blacks to leave has filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages from the company. Donnell Battie says Wal-Mart was negligent, careless and reckless and showed deliberate indifference [...]
*The LA Times is reporting that a woman who pepper-sprayed other shoppers Thursday night at the Wal-Mart in the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles armed herself with the caustic spray to gain an advantage in the fight for merchandise at the Black Friday sale, a fire captain said. The woman, who is still being [...]
*We’re in the heat of a recession because of banking that had been deregulated during the Bush era and folks are not taking it sitting down. This past weekend there was a push during the Occupy protests that made Saturday into ”Bank Transfer Day” where people who are fed up with the big bank fees and other [...]
*The choir of Wal-marters out there are singing its praises as the Christmas season begins, for most, right now. Those who affectionately refer to their favorite store as “The W” are simply giddy with the deals that are beginning this weekend, not to mention the return of the layaway plan. The layaway has been a [...]
*We’ve survived Uncle Luke, Trina, Lil’ Kim, Khia and many other artists with dirty videos filled with skanky girls poppin’ their coochie and doing unimaginable things that should not be in a music video. And with that said, it’s hard to believe that there are other artists that could find a new low to go too. A rapper called [...]
*Surprise, surprise. Kanye West is upset with the Los Angeles Times because the newspaper wasn’t feeling his new short film “Runaway.” “I would’ve [taken] offense 2 the LA Times review of the movie but the extremely condescending writer accidentally complimented my suit! Thx,” he started. “I believe the writers name was Kriss Lee who [is] [...]
*Kanye West has found a way to get around the controversy surrounding his new album cover (pictured above). The plan, he says, is to release the product with five interchangeable sleeves. As previously reported, the rapper said this week that his new album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” is facing a ban at Wal-Mart due [...]
*Kanye West took to Twitter Sunday to lament over his new album being banned from Wal-Mart due to its cover. [See above photo.] “Banned in the USA!!! They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!” tweeted West of the artwork for “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (due in stores Nov. 22), which [...]
*Guess who has a clothing line in Wal-Mart? Tina Knowles. She is taking her Dereon fashion for plus-sized ladies to America’s favorite discount store. It’s a 30-piece collection that includes suits and sizes 2 to 20. Most items are under $20. “My frustration in shopping was always trying to find sizes,” Knowles tells StyleList. “We [...]
*This crime is only getting some play because he deserves to be embarrassed for being this damn stupid. The first part that makes you say “C’mon Son!” is that the dummy tried to rob a Wal-Mart by backing his car up to the back of the store and running in an emergency exit. Of course, he’s caught [...]
*In New Jersey police have arrested the 16-year-old boy who used a public-address system in a Turnersville Wal-Mart store to tell “all the black people” to leave. At a noon press conference Saturday outside the Washington Township Police Department, Police Chief Rafael Muniz and Prosecutor Sean Dalton declined to identify the boy, but said he [...]
*Officials at a southern New Jersey Wal-Mart store are reviewing security tapes to try to track down the person who used the public-address system to tell “all black people” to leave. Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday at the Washington Township store, a male voice calmly announced: “Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store [...]
*Long gone are the blue light specials of K-mart. It’s as though the place is the ghost of shopping’s past. Now it’s all about Wal-mart and Target. Ask your girlfriend guys. And if you are a true Wal-mart shopper, you might even want to live there. Yes, I said…”live there!” Because now Wal-mart is not [...]
*Critics are blasting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for the items it has chosen for its Black History Month displays. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the company rejected placement of PBS’ four-hour documentary “For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots,” in which a Who’s Who of Hollywood is enlisted to document the history of [...]
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