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Alfre Woodard, Denzel Washington Receive SAG Award Nominations
Courtesy of The Grio The Screen Actors Guild Award is an accolade given annually by the Screen Actors Guild, or SAG, to recognize outstanding performances by its members. This year actors Alfre Woodard...
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Don’t Believe the Hype: Successful Women Can Get—And Keep—A Man
Courtesy of BlackEnterprise.com You know, sometimes it seems the more “right” you do in your career, as a woman, the less successful you’ll be in love and relationships—that is, according to the...
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Image Activist Michaela Angela Davis Seeks To ‘Bury The Ratchet’
Writer and image activist Michaela Angela Davis is taking on a new project that might put a few women of Atlanta-based reality shows out of work. In a recent interview with television personality...
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Star Clique
UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who is expected to get the Secretary of State nomination, is out and about in NYC on Dec. 11. Photo: Dara Kushner/INFphoto.com Akon gives a homeless man $20 while leaving...
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Hardcore Marriage Counseling: Is TV Ready For “The Real Mistresses Of Atlanta”?
Courtesy of Hello Beautiful I’ve played on both sides of the fence. I’ve been the side chick and am currently the main the only chick. I am very aware of the expectations and behaviors associated with...
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Police Suspect LA Man Was Lured Into NYC Ambush
Courtesy of EBONY.com Someone wanted Brandon Lincoln Woodard dead — bad enough to apparently lure him to a midtown Manhattan block for what looked like a professional hit. But who shot Woodard in the...
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Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle Score Golden Globe Nominations
Golden Globe nominees were announced Thursday morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and surprise, surprise: Denzel Washington is in the running....
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2012: Beyoncé’s Best Year
By Evette Dionne The world presumed that birthing her first child would break songstress Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s dominant stride. Wrong. King Bey hasn’t blessed iTunes with empowerment anthems or club...
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Black Meteorologist Fired For Responding To Racist Facebook Posts, Including...
Courtesy of The Frisky Update: HuffPost has a copy of an email sent by KTBS to employees regarding the company’s “guidelines” (as they put it) for using social media — which Lee confirmed she did...
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Russell Simmons To Host Second Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball
Media mogul Russell Simmons is at work putting together yet another Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball to celebrate the second term of President Barack Obama. Much like the first ball in 2009, the event will...
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Evelyn Lozada Misses Chad Johnson?
Courtesy of Sister 2 Sister It looks like Evelyn Lozada and Chad Johnson may have been exchanging love notes via Twitter. While their marriage ended in a domestic incident just weeks after they wed,...
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OWN Reveals Two Brand New Tyler Perry Series
Back in October, we reported the partnership between Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey to produce a pair of series for OWN, the network’s first venture into original scripted programming. Today comes the...
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Chicago Students Hold Sit-In To Demand New Principal
Students at King College Prep in Chicago held a sit-in Thursday to demand the resignation of the school’s new principle. The protest involved approximately 500 students who say they’re unhappy over...
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Susan Rice Drops Out Of Running For Secretary Of State
Courtesy of NBC News Embattled U.N. envoy Susan Rice is dropping out of the running to be the next secretary of state after months of criticism over her Benghazi comments, she told NBC News on...
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Black ESPN Guest: RGIII Only ‘Kind of Black, Not One of Us’
Courtesy of EURWeb An African-American ESPN2 contributor stepped in it Thursday when he called Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III “kind of black,” and said of the athlete, “He’s not one of us.”...
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Would You Use a ‘Dissolving’ Condom?
Courtesy of Loop 21 Pills and patches, rings and diaphragms, injections and intrauterine devices — the available methods of contraception are varied and plentiful, but with a reported 6.2 million women...
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When Reality TV Gets Real: The 10 Best Ratchet Moments Of 2012
Courtesy of Hello Beautiful If I could relive one moment in 2012, it would be when I was sitting on my couch watching “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” and Joseline Hernandez (also known as Jose) put Stevie...
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A 12-Year-Old Girl Who Was Accused Of Being Pregnant Actually Had A 19-Pound...
Courtesy of Madame Noire If there was ever a reason to start going to the doctor more regularly, the story of 12-year-old Jackson, Fla. resident might have you inspired to do better. What was supposed...
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Holiday Love: Reintroducing the Sounds of Grammy-Award Winner Ann Nesby
Grammy-award winner and former lead singer of Sounds of Blackness returns with a new single, “Holiday Love”. Nesby has spanned a two-decade career as a songwriter, vocalist and actress, having worked...
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Is There Colorism on the Campaign Trail?
Courtesy of The Root The latest installment of CNN’s docuseries Black in America asked the question “Who Is Black in America?” and examined the issue of colorism: bias based not just on race but also...
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