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Okay, Cue the Music: Kim Kardashian Gives Birth

• June 15, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in Armenians/Syrians/Iranians/Kurds/Turks, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Food, Gossip, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Pregnancy/Pre-Natal Issues, Reality Shows, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: Babies, Baby, Buckingham Palace, Cable TV, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, E!, Escapism, Fat Shaming, Fat-Slammed, Fathers Day, Induced, Kanye, Kanye West, Kardashian, Kardashians, Kate Middleton, Kim, Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries, Kris Jenner, Motherhood, New York Times, Premature Birth, Prince William of Wales, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Reality Shows, Robert Kardashian, United States, Wretched Excess

Funeral Services Announced for Gil Scott-Heron and More (w/Update)

• June 1, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in African American History, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, HIV Positive, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Art, Artists, Arts, BBC News, Blacks, Children, Crack, Creative People, Death, Drug Addiction, Drugs, E. Ethelbert Miller, Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, Funeral Services, Ghostface Killah, Gia Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron, Growing Up, I'm New Here, Kanye West, Love, Musician, New York City, New York Times, Novelist, Poet, Polymath, Riverside Church, Singer, Substance Abuse, Substance Dependence, Talib Kweli, The Fieldston School, The Hip Hop Nation, The Seventies, The Sixties, Washington D.C.

The Ancestors Welcome Poet-Singer-Musician Gil Scott-Heron, Known For “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”; Father of the Spoken Word Movement and a Progenitor of Hip Hop

• May 28, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American Politics, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Environmental Crimes, Hate Crimes, Homelessness, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Joblessness, Music, National Issues, Race, Revolutions, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Winter in America", African American, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Alec Wilkinson, Blacks, Brenda Sykes, Brian Jackson, Chuck D, Drug Addict, Drugs, Gia Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here, Jamaica, Jamaican Ancestry, Kanye West, Musician, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, New York, New York City, Racism, Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Ron Carter, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, We Almost Lost Detroit

More Grammy Highlights: Wins for Carolina Chocolate Drops, Esperanza Spalding, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples and Fantasia Barrino

• February 14, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Barbra Streisand, Buddy Guy, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Esperanza Spalding, Fantasia Barrino, Fashion, Health, Herbie Hancock, Love, Mavis Staples, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, People of Color, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Chamber Music Society", "Reencontro", 53rd Grammy Awards, African Americans, Barbra Streisand, Black Women, Blacks, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Drake, Esperanza Spalding, Fantasia Barrino, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Growing Up, Herbie Hancock, Indie, Jeff Tweedy, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Mavis Staples, Questlove, Twitter, United States, Wilco

The Other Black Oscar Winners…Both Firsts, But Probably Not in the Way You Think

• March 8, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Africans, American Foreign Policy, Awards, Black People, Class, Differently-Abled, Documentary, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, Health, Liyana, Music, People of Color, Prudence Mabhena, Race, Television, The Rest of the World, Women, Zimbabwe
Tags: "Music by Prudence", "Precious", "The Los Angeles Times", African Americans, Arthrogryposis, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Documentary Short Subject, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Creative Control, Drama, Elinor Burkett, Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher, Kanye West, Kanye'd, Liyana, Oscar, Prudence Mabhena, Roger Ross Williams, The Oscars, Zimbabwe

John Mayer is an Idiot, with an Update

• February 11, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Gossip, Haiti, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "The Quiet Man", "US Weekly", "Your Body is a Wonderland", A-Hole, Ancestral Lands, B.B. King, Benefit, Benetton, Bush, Common Sense, Crack, David Duke, Elvis Costello, Enoch Powell, Eric Clapton, George Clooney, Hater, Hood Pass, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Simpson, John Mayer, John Wayne, Kanye West, Marijuana, Media Whore, Misogyny, Moron, New Orleans, Oliviero Toscani, Patagonia, PC, Phoniness, Phony, Playboy, Porn, President Bush, President George W. Bush, Racism, Reactionary, Sexism, Taylor Swift, The "Playboy" Interview, The Mapuche, The N Word, The United Colors of Benetton, White Supremacy, Whore

The Obama “Jackass” Comment About Kanye West

• September 16, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Journalism and Ethics, Music Videos, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: ABC News, African Americans, Barack Obama, CNBC, Kanye West, President Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Terry Moran, The Huffington Post, TMZ.com, Video Music Awards, VMA

Succumbing to The Stupid: Kanye West

• September 15, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Music, Music Videos, Race, Television
Tags: "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "The Jay Leno Show", "You Belong With Me", African Americans, Barack Obama, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Donda West, Growing Up, Jay Leno, JayZ, Kanye, Kanye West, Lack of Common Sense, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Rihanna, Rihanna Fenty, Taylor Swift, Video Music Awards, VMA

Rihanna to Testify at Chris Brown’s Hearing

• May 29, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Crime, Film, Gossip, Love
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Chris Brown, Common Sense, Domestic Violence, Donald Etra, Drake Graham, Drama, Growing Up, Kanye West, Mark Geragos, Rihanna, Sex, Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg, TMZ.com

“Good Times” Artist Ernie Barnes, 70, Dies

• April 28, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Art, Black People, Ernie Barnes, Varnette Honeywood
Tags: "A Life Restored", "From Pads to Palettes", "Good Times", "I Want You", "The Bench", "The Cosby Show", Arts, Baltimore Colts, Bullying, Denver Broncos, Ernie Barnes, Football, J. J. Evans, Jimmy "J-J" Walker, Kanye West, Marvin Gaye, Michelangelo, Raphael, San Diego Chargers, Sports, Sports Art, The Haight, The Seventies, Varnette Honeywood, Visual Arts

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