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*Rapper Talib Kweli on Monday weighed in on the Rick Rock controversy surrounding his verse on the song U.O.E.N.O. During a HuffPost Live segment hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Kweli took issue with Ross’s contention that his line seeming to promote date rape, was simply a “misunderstanding.” “I don’t care if Rick Ross is 40 [...]
*The newsrooms throughout America make it necessary for various African American online, print, and radio news outlets like the Electronic Urban Report (EUR), The Root, The Grio, the Chicago Defender, the Afro American, Michael Baisden’s show, Tom Joyner, and many others to exist. The diversity that is necessary to tell the stories of the nation’s [...]
*Colman Domingo has joined the cast of Lee Daniels’ “The Butler,” based on the life of Eugene Allen, a White House servant who worked for eight First Families over three decades. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Domingo will play a White House butler who works in the Executive Mansion. Forest Whitaker plays Allen and Oprah [...]
*The world is full of homeless people who have fell on hard times for one reason or another. But, no matter how they got there, it is a tough life that many, without the help of society, find no way to escape. The stigma of being “homeless” has managed to keep assistance dwindling because society [...]
*A Virginia high school English teacher is under investigation for allegedly asking the lone African American student in the class to read a poem in a “blacker” manner. Jordan Shumate, a ninth-grader at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Va., says he was reading aloud Langston Hughes’ “Ballad of the Landlord” when teacher [...]
*The biggest sacrifice men and women have made for this country is to go to war to protect it. They are average citizens who, a lot of them, have never seen someone murdered up close and personal, yet they are thrown into war where they are possibly killing civilians or watch them be killed. They are martyrs, murderers, and [...]
*It’s been a very busy news day and to cap it off comes word, via The Hollywood Reporter, that Eddie Murphy is set to play former Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry (pictured below). HBO Films is developing the as yet untitled television biopic. Spike Lee will be at the helm while John Ridley is attached [...]
*On more than one occasion, President Barack Obama has cut personal checks to struggling Americans who’ve written to the White House, according to an excerpt from a new book by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow about the ten letters the president reads every day. “It’s not something I should advertise, but it has happened,” the [...]
*Change is and has always been a constant. That’s becoming clearer and clearer as far as demographics and how it affects America’s cities and politics. The Washington Post has a story that illustrates how profoundly immigrants are changing the region. Washington is among eight big-city metropolitan regions in which minorities became a majority in the [...]
*They say you can run, but you can’t hide. We say that to make a point about serial killer Lee Boyd Malvo. Last seen in an exclusive phone chat with Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, he recently filed a motion to legally change his name to the less memorable Joseph Lee Ostrierre. A Wise County Circuit Court [...]
*VH1′s new “Single Ladies” series starring LisaRaye McCoy and Stacey Dash made its debut Monday night via a 2-hour premier movie and the critics are weighing in. One of them, the Washington Post’s Hank Stuever, has written his review and, umm, basically, we don’t think he liked what he saw. “‘Single Ladies’ is embarrassing to [...]
*Oprah Winfrey ended her show after 25 years on Wednesday by addressing her audience solo from her studio in Chicago, recounting the life lessons she learned from the show through a mixture of laughter and tears. So what did the critics think of her farewell? Needless to say, there were mixed opinions about the amount [...]
*President Obama called Rahm Emanuel, his former White House chief of staff, on Monday after an Illinois appellate court declared him ineligible to appear on the mayoral ballot because he does not meet the city’s residency requirement. On Tuesday morning, Mr. Obama sent senior adviser Valerie Jarrett out on the television circuit, where she told [...]
*Like similar national polls before it, the Washington Post Monday released the results of a public opinion survey addressing the issue of whether the presidency of Barack Obama has improved race relations in America. The answer was generally “no!” Indeed, only 35 percent of those polled felt that Obama’s election and presidency had improved relations [...]
*Railing against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, shooting down an immigration bill he once sponsored, pushing his own changes to START-The Daily Beast’s Shushannah Walshe says the tougher John McCain who emerged in the 2010 primaries may be here to stay. Conversations with friends, advisers, and analysts reveal McCain as a man still angry at his [...]
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