VIA NEWSONE From WSJ.com: The number of people filing for unemployment insurance fell last week, but weak industrial output and a drop in wholesale prices point to a slowing in the economic recovery. Initial claims for jobless benefits fell a seasonally adjusted 29,000 to 429,000 in the week ended July 10, the Labor Department said […]
VIA NEWSONE Tea Party Express spokesman, Mark Williams was asked to tell racists they were not welcome, by Roland Martin on the Wolf Blitzer show. He responded by saying, “Racists have their own movement. It’s called the NAACP.”
Omarosa Don’t miss an encore presentation of TV One’s new series “Donald J. Trump Presents the Ultimate Merger,” Thursday, June 24 at 8:30 PM ET. Omarosa looks for her perfect mate among a cadre of a dozen hot, successful bachelors that she puts through a gauntlet of tests, including R&B star Al B. Sure! Real […]
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER A historian and a collector are defending the authenticity of a photo found in Charlotte that appears to depict slave children, even as critics say copies of the image exist at the New York Public Library and have been sold on eBay, according to an article that ran in the Charlotte Observer […]
VIA NEW YORK POST Being one of the hottest female stars apparently doesn’t give Lady Gaga enough attention. At a New York Mets’ game yesterday, she stripped down to a bedazzled bra similar to the one she wore in the “Telephone” video pictured above. Gaga also saluted fans with a double-bird. Apparently, she arrived during […]
VIA NEWSONE Two weeks after he was sent to prison, the Michigan Department of Corrections is proposing Kwame Kilpatrick for boot camp – a program that would release him on parole in 90 days. The proposal was in a June 8 letter from the Corrections Department to Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner, who […]
To celebrate Black Music Month, I recruited Levine Museum of the New South historian Tom Hanchett. If you’ve never heard one of Hanchett’s talks please make a point to attend one of his lectures. He can explain everything from the city’s confusing street names to the rise and fall of historic black communities uptown. In […]
VIA URBAN DAILY On June 22nd, the hardest working band in hip-hop (and late night television) release their newest album, How I Got Over. The latest single from The Roots’ new album, the appropriately titled “The Fire” featuring their new BFF, John Legend, shows the group in top form, specifically Black Thought who, as always, […]
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Chances are slim that tar balls from the Gulf will not come near the S.C. coast. Jacqueline Michel, who runs a Columbia research firm has been contracted to help organize the oil spill clean up, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates tar balls have between a 1 percent to 20 […]
VIA NEWSONE: I don’t have to list President Barack Obama’s credentials, but I will. He’s a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He’s also the first black to lead the Harvard Law Review. He was a United States Senator and the first African American elected as president of the United States. Obama is […]
VIA CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Ebony magazine has named Amy DuBois Barnett, former deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, as its new Editor-in-Chief, the publisher announced today. Linda Johnson Rice, chairman and CEO of Ebony publisher Johnson Publishing Co., and daughter of the founder, told the Sun-Times today that she wants Barnett to enhance Ebony as a magazine […]
VIA CNN In the weeks since an oil rig exploded and later sank into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has dealt with the tragedy with his signature cool, calm and collected approach. But with the oil still gushing in what is now the worst spill in U.S. history and the environmental devastation coming ashore, […]