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Don’t Miss “An Evening with Valerie Simpson in Honor of Nick Ashford” Coming to PBS Stations This Month

• February 18, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, Ashford and Simpson, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Gwen Ifill, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Valerie Simpson, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: African Americans, Ashford, Ashford and Simpson, Berry Gordy, Black History Month, Black Women, Blacks, Brother Ray, Celebrity Deaths, Death, Gwen Ifill, Interview, Love, Love Songs, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Nickolas Ashford, Passing, Public Television, Ray Charles, Simpson, Tammi Terrell, Teddy Pendergrass, The Eighties, The Seventies, Tivos, Valerie Simpson, W, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Television

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Discuss Acting, Hollywood, the Film Industry, and Much, Much More

• July 12, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Acting, African American History, Arts, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Drama, Film, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Television, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Fences, "Shadow and Act", Acting, Actors, African Americans, August Wilson, Black Women, Blacks, Conversation, Drama, Education, Film, Hollywood, Interview, Lynn Hirschberg, New York Times, Racism, Roles, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sidney Poitier, The Film Industry, Times Talk, Viola Davis

Tiger Woods Visits Jimmy Fallon

• March 18, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Consumerism, Cultural History, Gossip, Late Night TV, Love, People of Color, Sexuality, Sports, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tiger Woods, Women
Tags: A Game, Bad Golf, Charlie Woods, Cheater, Children, David Letterman, Eldrick Tont Woods, Eldrick Woods, Elin Nordegren, Golf, Golf Course, Golf Courses, Golfer, Golfing, Interview, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jumpoffs, Kids, Late Night TV, Late Night TV Host, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Mansion, No. 5 in the World, Off-Game, Parenthood, Personal Life, Raising Children, Raising Kids, Sam Woods, Single Fatherhood, Spitting, Spitting Fines, Stephanie Birkitt, The Masters, The PGA Tour, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, Traditional Marriage

Cher’s “Letterman” Interview: What She Thinks About Chaz, Her Impersonators, and Lots of Other Things As Well

• November 12, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Fashion, Late Night TV, Love, Music, Native Americans/First Nations, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Late Show with Dave Letterman", Affairs, Celebrity Interview, Chaz Bono, Cher, Cherilyn Sarkisian, David Letterman, Gay Icon, Gays, Interview, LGBT, Love, Motherhood, Rod 2.0, Sex, Sonny & Cher, Transgender People

The President with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show,” October 27, 2010

• October 28, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Democrats, Homelessness, Joblessness, Jon Stewart/"The Daily Show", Journalism and Ethics, National Issues, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Stephen Colbert, Subprime Loans-Foreclosures, Teabagging Party, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Stimulus Bill
Tags: 2010, African Americans, Cable, Charlie Sheen, Citizens, Comedy, Comedy Central, Congress, Cop Shooting, Daily Show, David Arquette, Democrats, Eugene Walker, Exclusive Interview, Fake News Show, FBP, First Black President, Fitchburg WI, GOTV, Interview, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jon Stewart, Midterm Elections, Obama Administration, POTUS, President, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Stephen Colbert, Students, The Daily Show, The House of Representatives, The Midterm Elections 2010, The Senate, United States, Young, Youth, Youth Vote

UPDATE: Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande, Two of the Four Plaintiffs Against Bishop Eddie Long, Speak Out

• September 29, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Televangelists, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Dime Wars", African Americans, Anti-Gay, Anti-Gay Remarks, Atlanta, B.J. Bernstein, Baptist, Baptists, Bisexual, Bishop Eddie Long, Bishop Long, Black Evangelicals, Charlotte NC, Child Sexual Abuse, Civil Suit, Closet, Coercion, Cologne, Colorado, Cult, Daddy, Dale Russell, District Attorney, Eddie Long, Ephebophilia, Faux News, Faux Noise, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Gay, Grooming, Homosexual, Interview, Jamal Parris, LGBT, Maurice Robinson, Media Critics, Out of the Closet, Pastors, Pedophilia, Plaintiff, Preachers, Prosperity Gospel, Protestants, Sex, Sex Predator, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Misbehavior, Spencer LeGrande, United States, WAGA-TV

The Fifth of Katrina – The People

• August 29, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Hurricanes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Race, Spirituality, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Ninth Ward, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "Frontline", "The Nation", "The Old Man and The Storm", "When the Levees Broke", 5027 North Roman Street, AK-47, Algiers Point, Aligiers Point Ferry, Architectural Critics, Architecture, Artistry, Building Artisans, Bushwhacked, Catastrophe, Cheryl Gettridge Steele, Chris Collins, Common Ground, Communities, Cox News, Danny Brumfield, Donnell Herrington, Effort, Gun Nuts, HBO, Henry Glover, Herbert Gettridge, Hurricane Katrina, Interview, Katrina, Killings, Looters, Louisiana, Love, Lydia Gettridge, Madison WI, Marcel Alexander, Mardi Gras, Martial Law, Master, Mental Health, Middle Class Blacks, Milvirtha Hendricks, Milvirtha Knight Hendricks, Mississippi, Nathan Roper, Neighborhoods, New Orleans, New Orleans Police, New Orleans Police Department, NOPD, Order to Shoot to Kill, PBS, Plasterer, Police Shootings, Race War, Racist, Right Wing, Roland Bourgeois, Shoot to Kill, Shootings, Shot, Spike Lee, Survivalist, Sweat, Texas, The FBI, The Lower Ninth Ward, The Road Home Program, Trauma, Truck Stop, Ugly, Ugly Ways, Vigilantes, Vinnie Pervel, Wayne Janak, WDSU, White Vigilantes, Whites, Wisconsin

This is Your Mind on Drugs: Richard Pryor in Full Sail, Circa 1980

• July 25, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Acting, African American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Crime, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Late Night TV, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Silver Streak", "Stir Crazy", Cocaine, Coke, Crack, Drug Abuse, Freebasing, Gene Wilder, Interview, Johnny Carson, Lily Tomlin, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Pryor, Richard Pryor, Suicide Attempt, Sunset Boulevard, The Eighties, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

ESPN and Golf Channel Interview Tiger Woods

• March 21, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Gossip, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Sexuality, Sports, Television, Women
Tags: Adultery, African Americans, Blacks, Drama, Eldrick Tont Woods, Elin Nordegren Woods, Elin Woods, ESPN, Golf, Golf Channel, Growing Up, HuffPo, Infidelity, Interracial Celebrity Couples, Interracial Marriage, Interview, Love, Marriage, Privacy, Private Life, The Huffington Post, The Masters, Tiger Woods, Tom Rinaldi

Singer Bill Withers on Tavis Smiley’s PBS Show

• February 8, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Bill Withers, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Domestic Violence, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Television
Tags: "Still Bill", "The State of the Black Union", "Use Me", African Americans, Bill Withers, Blacks, Denise Nicholas, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Drama, Egomania, Film, Gatekeeper, Interview, Kori Withers, Late Night TV, Leader, Marcia Johnson, Marriage, Music, PBS, Relationships, Sex, Singer Songwriter, Tavis Smiley, The Eighties, The Seventies, Todd Withers, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo

President Obama’s Message to African Americans at the Close of 2009

• January 1, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Democrats, History, Journalism and Ethics, Obama Administration, Race, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, American Urban Radio Networks, April Ryan, Barack Obama, Class, Congressional Black Caucus, Danny Glover, Foreclosures, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Belafonte, Home Ownership, Interview, Jim Clyburn, John Conyers, Predatory Lending, President Obama, Small Business Administration, The Black Community, The Black Middle Class, The Economy, The Great Recession, The Recovery Act, Unemployment

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Hoping for a Comeback in a Town With Little to Come Back To March 28, 2023
Officials have vowed that Rolling Fork, Miss., ravaged by a tornado, will come back better than ever. But first people need food, water, shelter, medicine and life’s other necessities.
Newsom Rolls Back Water Restrictions After Winter Deluge in California March 27, 2023
The state is “mostly but not completely” out of a drought, Gov. Gavin Newsom says.
Lucas Museum in Los Angeles Slated to Open in 2025 March 28, 2023
It’s finally happening.
Prisoners Today, Neighbors Tomorrow March 25, 2023
A new book “What’s Prison For?” explains how American prisons can better educate and rehabilitate the incarcerated.
U.S. Border Policies Have Created a Backup of Migrants in Mexico March 28, 2023
As the United States has cracked down on border entries, Mexico is bearing the burden of housing and feeding tens of thousands of desperate migrants.
Biden Highlights Economic Investments Ahead of Expected 2024 Announcement March 28, 2023
The president has warned that a strong economy could be weakened under Republican leadership, a point he and a host of advisers will make at 20 events across the country in the coming weeks.
The Key Differences Between Nashville and Uvalde Shooting Responses March 28, 2023
In both instances, officers rushed to the scenes and immediately entered the schools. But the situations that they confronted were not the same.
Randall Robinson, Anti-Apartheid Catalyst, Is Dead at 81 March 28, 2023
He also supported reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans and sanctuary for Haitian refugees. But he lived for two decades in self-imposed exile.

The Guardian, UK

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun and pianist, dies at 99 March 27, 2023
The musician, who spent nearly the last 40 years of her life living in a monastery in Jerusalem, has diedEmahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist, has died at the age of 99.According to the country’s state-run news outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate, she died in Jerusalem. Guèbrou had been living at the Ethiopian Monastery there f […]
Rwanda scheme would ‘completely erode’ UK’s standing on world stage March 26, 2023
New Human Rights Watch head Tirana Hassan says UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers is ‘cheap politics’The UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda would “completely erode” Britain’s standing on the world stage, the new head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.Tirana Hassan, who takes over as HRW’s executive director on Monday, also said other conservativ […]
Refugees trying to reach Italy die after boats sink off coast of Tunisia March 26, 2023
Latest tragedy comes as authorities in north African country crack down on undocumented peopleAt least 29 people from sub-Saharan Africa have died while trying to reach Italy after two boats carrying them across the Mediterranean sank off the coast of Tunisia.The deaths, which occurred early on Sunday, are the latest tragedies involving people departing from […]
Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina released from prison March 25, 2023
Ex-hotelier whose actions saved lives during 1994 genocide has sentence for terrorism charges commutedPaul Rusesabagina, a businessman whose role in saving more than 1,000 lives during the 1994 Rwandan genocide inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, has been released from prison after his 25-year sentence on terrorism charges was commuted.Rusesabagina was accompani […]
Ethiopian PM appoints TPLF official as head of Tigray interim administration March 23, 2023
Move follows peace deal between rebels and federal government that ended two-year conflictThe Ethiopian government has said it has appointed a senior official in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) as head of the interim Tigray regional administration after a peace deal ended a brutal two-year conflict.“Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed Getache […]
Tanzania announces outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease March 22, 2023
Five deaths and three further cases of the Ebola-like virus have been reported in the country’s north-westTanzania has announced its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), after five fatalities and three further cases were reported at a hospital in the country’s north-west Kagera region.Through contact tracing, approximately 161 people hav […]
At least 39 dead after fire at Mexican migrant facility on US border March 28, 2023
Mexican president says protests to blame for fire in Ciudad Juárez, the latest example of dangers facing those taking route to USMexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has blamed protesting migrants for causing a fire at an immigration detention centre that has killed at least 39 people in Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city on the US border.Images of th […]
Ecuador landslide: search for survivors after dozens of homes buried March 28, 2023
President Guillermo Lasso confirms seven people have died, with 62 still missing after disaster on Sunday nightA huge landslide that swept over an Andean community in central Ecuador, burying dozens of homes, has killed at least seven people, authorities said as rescuers continued a frantic search for survivors.Earlier on Monday, officials had reported 16 de […]

The BBC

Nashville school shooter hid guns in parents' house March 28, 2023
Police say the parents felt the suspect should not own weapons, but did not realise guns were in the house.
Amsterdam launches 'stay away' ad campaign targeting young British men March 28, 2023
The Dutch city targets UK men aged 18-35 in an ad campaign aimed at changing its reputation.
Russian whose daughter drew anti-war picture flees jail term March 28, 2023
Alexei Moskalev was investigated after his daughter drew an anti-war picture at school.
How California floods affect US food prices March 28, 2023
Flooded farmlands in America's "bread basket" have big consequences for US and global food supplies.
Mexico migrants: Deadly fire at Juárez migrant centre kills at least 40 March 28, 2023
Mexico's president says the blaze started during a protest by migrants fearing deportation.
Ukraine war: Germany sends much-awaited Leopard tanks March 28, 2023
The first 18 of the cutting-edge tanks are sent, amid reports UK Challenger 2s have also arrived.
North Korea asserts first evidence of tactical nuclear weapons March 28, 2023
The weapons are shown beside Kim Jong Un in photos and cannot be verified, but have raised concern.
Amateur Australian gold digger finds massive nugget March 28, 2023
The specimen was found with a budget metal detector and weighed in at 4.6kg.