Maxine Waters Meets with CBS News Over Lack of Black Reporters on 2020 Election Team
*After Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) slammed CBS News last week over its lack of Black reporters slated to cover the 2020 presidential race, the congresswoman met with network honchos in-person to discuss the controversy. “CBS admitted they had a lot of work to do & committed to including Blacks on their 2020 election team & […]
NAACP & MomsRising Insist Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Should Resign – VIDEO
*Concerning Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who is refusing to resign over a racist photo from his medical school yearbook, he now says he was not one of the men in the picture (see below), although he did admit to once wearing blackface as part of a Michael Jackson costume. “I am asking for the opportunity […]
Jermaine Jackson Says He’s ‘1,000 Percent Sure’ Michael Jackson Didn’t Molest Children
*Jermaine Jackson is finally speaking out against the shocking documentary “Leaving Neverland” — which debuted at Sundance Film Festival last week, and focuses on Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who both allege they were molested by Michael Jackson as children. As we previously reported, hours after the doc premiered, Jackson’s estate described the film as […]
Joy Ann Reid & MSNBC Incorrectly Call Black Voters Bots that use #ADOS & #AmericanDOS – Creators Demand Apology
*Joy Ann Reid is at it again and caught in a scandal. She recently had a woman named Shireen, Harlem’s Shuri with the twitter tag @digitalsista on her MSNBC show Joy Reid, and both began to call a real movement of black politics and media centered around the terms #ADOS and #AmericanDOS Russian bots. The […]
EUR Book Review/’The Truths We Hold: An American Journey’ by Kamala Harris
“We’ve seen… [the Trump] administration align itself with white supremacists at home and cozy up to dictators abroad; rip babies from their mothers’ arms in grotesque violation of their human rights; give corporations and the wealthy huge tax cuts; derail our fight against climate change; sabotage health care and imperil a woman’s right to control […]
Danielle Brooks: ‘OITNB’ Actress/Singer Debuts Original Song: ‘Black Woman’
*New York, NY –– Danielle Brooks, who star’s in the critically acclaimed and Award-winning series Orange Is The New Black, today released her debut single, “Black Woman.” The GRAMMY Award-winner from The Color Purple brings her soulful and thoughtful voice to the original song. Playing homage to the power of being a beautiful, strong black […]
Beyoncé Offers Lifetime Concert Tickets … if You Go Vegan
*The BeeHive claim to be about that life when it comes to Beyoncé, so just how many of them are ready to go vegan to score free tickets to her ALL of her future concerts? As reported by Glamour, the R&B diva took to Instagram on January 30 and revealed she’s offering the chance to […]
Lack of Heat and Medical Care Behind Bars Prompts MomsRising: Our Jails Must Do Better
*NEW YORK – Yesterday, the New York Times (NYT) reported that more than a thousand inmates have been stuck in freezing cells, without heat and limited power, at a federal jail in Brooklyn for at least a week. This comes on the heels of a report earlier this week that a woman died in an […]
Bow Wow and Woman Busted in Atlanta for Battery of Each Other
Yes, you read the headline correctly. Early Saturday morning in Atlanta, rapper/actor Bow Wow was arrested for allegedly beating a woman who was also arrested for … you ready … allegedly beating him, too. According to Atlanta police they answered a call around 4:15am this morning over some sort of dispute between Bow Wow and […]
‘RHOA’ Star NeNe Leakes Says ‘Door Is Open’ for Kenya Moore, Phaedra Parks
*Real Housewives of Atlanta” star NeNe Leakes says she’s ready to forgive and make amends with her her former co-stars Phaedra Parks and Kenya Moore. During an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” on Sunday (Jan. 27) a caller asked whether she’d reunite with the former Miss USA, Us Weekly reports. “Listen […]
NAMM/National Association of Music Merchants 2019 All That and More!
*The NAMM 2019 was everything a musician can dream of and more. The National Association of Music Merchants convened for it’s annual conference in Anaheim, California January 24-27th 2019 attracting musicians, artisans, merchants and music dealers of every facet and from every region of the world. From instruments and accessories, to state of the art staging […]
R. Kelly Finds Himself Banned from Philly by City Council – Video
*In the wake of the sensational allegations brought up in the six-part Lifetime docuseries, “Surviving R. Kelly,” the Philadelphia City Council reportedly voted unanimously to ban the singer from the city as part of Councilwoman Helen Gym‘s “Mute R. Kelly” resolution. “We reject a system that silences black women and accepts black pain,” Gym confirmed on Twitter. […]
The Pulse of Entertainment: Grammy Museum’s ‘An Evening with Thelma Houston’ was Inspiring
*Grammy Award winning Thelma Houston was honored at the Grammy Museum’s “An Evening with Thelma Houston” where she performed and received a replacement Grammy Award for one she won in February, 1977 that was destroyed in an earthquake. The evening also included an intimate interview with the songstress by Grammy Museum Executive Director Scott Goldman […]
