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I Think LL Cool J Stepped In It Again on The Tonight Show Thursday Night

• April 12, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Discrimination, Hate Crimes, History, Late Night TV, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, National Issues, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, Slavery, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", Accidental Racist, Arts, Brad Paisley, Jay Leno, LL Cool J, NBC, NCIS, New York, Talk Show, Television, The Tonight Show, Tonight Show, Trayvon Martin, United States

The Roots Snark Michele Bachmann on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” with Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch”

• November 23, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Late Night TV, Music, Public Intellectualism, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Roots, Women
Tags: "Lyin Ass Bitch", African Americans, Apologies, Ashlee Simpson, Bachmann, Bad Taste, Blacks, California, Cheek, Cheekiness, Comcast, Common Sense, Demeaning to Women?, Double Standard, Fallon, Fishbone, General Electric, Jimmy Fallon, Kathie Lee Gifford, Lady Gaga, Lampoon, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, Meme, Michele Bachmann, NBC, Presidiential Candidate, Punked, Republicans, Right Wing Loon, Roots, Self-Preservation, Ska, Slut-Shaming, The Roots, Tweet, Twitter, United States

Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: Violence at State Fair Not Necessarily Race-Related, Plus Governor Gets Heckled, All on The First Day

• August 6, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Gang Violence, Health, Joblessness, Journalism and Ethics, Labor Relations, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, People of Color, Race, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Unions/Union Busting
Tags: Black Youth, Blacks, Channel 3000, Christopher Ferguson, Crime, Democratic, Facebook, Flash Mobs, Flash Rob, Flash Robbing, Gang-Related, Governor Scott Walker, Juvenile Crime, Knockout King, MC Hammer, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Mobs, NBC, Philip Jackson, Professor Linda Holtzman, Race-Related, Republican Party (United States), Riot, Teenagers, Twitter, West Allis, Whites, Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Fair, WTMJ, Youths, Youths of Color

Tiki Barber: It’s All About The Benjamins and Not About The Sport

• March 9, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Sexuality, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Tiger Woods, Tiki Barber, Women
Tags: Affair, Antonio Pierce, Asian American Women, Broke, Claudia Barber, Donovan McNabb, Ex-Wife, Fans, Filipina, Football, Ginny Barber, Girlfriend, Karma, LeGarrette Blount, Manhattan, NBC, New York Giants, Payback, Pregnant, Reputation, Retirement, Ronde Barber, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tiki Barber, Traci Lynn Johnson, Trifecta, Twin, Twins, Wife

Hilarious! Governor Scott Walker PUNKed by Progressive Journalist Posing as Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch

• February 24, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, American Politics, Budget Cuts, Class, Crime, Journalism and Ethics, Labor History, Labor Relations, National Issues, Obama Administration, Political Malfeasance, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement, Unions/Union Busting, Wisconsin
Tags: Americans for Prosperity, Andrew Breitbart, Blue Collar Workers, Buffalo Beast, Buffalo NY, Charles Koch, Chuck Todd, Common Sense, David Koch, Democratic, Governor Brian Sandoval, Governor Kasich, Governor Walker, Ian Murphy, Koch Industries, Madison WI, NBC, Pat Simms, Polarization, Punk'd, Punked, Republican, Republicans, Right Wing Tool, Scott Walker, Skype, Splits, Ted Kennedy, The Beast (newspaper), The Democratic Party, Wisconsin, Wisconsinites

The Next to the Last Word on Bethany Storro

• September 22, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Hate Crimes, Health, Hoaxes, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Today Show", "The Vancouver Voice", Bethany Storro, Clark County, Deaf, Drain Cleaner, Eff Bomb, Esther Park, Extremists, Fundamentalist Christians, Hate Crime, Hearing Impaired, Innocence, Internalized Racism, KGW-TV, Lynching, Mental Illiness, NBC, Police, Portland OR, Prosecutor Tony Golik, Racism, Rational Mind, Sadness, Suicide, The Pacific Northwest, Tony Golik, Vancouver WA, White Supremacist

CoCo’s Got a New Show

• September 1, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Late Night TV, Mo'Nique, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wanda Sykes
Tags: "Conan", "Headlines, "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", 2010, Coco, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, Emmy, George Lopez, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Judge Ito, Kevin Eubanks, Late Night TV, Late Night TV Host, Mo'Nique, NBC, November 8, Pompadour, Rickey Minor, TBS, Wanda Sykes, WTBS

Only One Black Emmy Winner This Year; But Archie Panjabi Won

• August 30, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Cultural History, Drama, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Late Night TV, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Bend It Like Beckham", "Inspector Lewis", "The Good Wife", Acting, Actress, African Americans, Americans, Andre Braugher, Archana Kaur Panjabi, Archie Panjabi, Blacks, British, Britons, Camera Operator, CBS, Columbia, Daniel Craig, Hector Elizondo, Hector Ramirez, Inclusiveness, Isaiah Mustafa, James Bond, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Smits, Latinos, NBC, Old Spice, People of Color, Person of Color, Record Nominations, Ricky Gervais, Sikh, Sofia Vergara, The Emmys, Wanda Sykes

Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, Passes

• July 15, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, Anime Cartoons, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Fiction Writing, Film, Japan, Memoir, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Astro Boy", "City Across the River", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Mr. District Attorney", "Speed Racer", Actor, Anime, Broadway, Cartoon, Channel 44, Children, Chim-Chim, Corinne Orr, Director, Drama, Growing Up, Hollywood, Japan, Japanese, KBHK TV, NBC, Peter Fernandez, Pops Racer, Pulp Fiction, Radio, Rex Racer, San Francisco, Sprytle, The Galaxy Rangers, The Seventies, The Sixties, Trixie, Voice, Voice Actor, Voice Overs, Voices, Writer

Kevin Eubanks Leaves “The Tonight Show”

• May 29, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Late Night TV, Music, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Art Blakey, Bandleader, Blacks, California, Conan O'Brien, Gay, Instrumentals, Jay Leno, Jazz, Kevin Eubanks, Lesbian, LGBT, Music, Musical Conductor, Musician, NBC, Percussionist, Sidekick, The Chin, The Tonight Show, Vicki Randle

The End of Free TV?

• December 29, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Class, Consumerism, Education, Film, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: ABC, Cable, Cable Industry, Cable TV, CBS, Comcast, Commercials, Digital Channels, DirecTV, Fox, Mergers, NBC, Television, The Web, TiVo, TV, TV Networks, TV Stations

Apparently Bill Cosby Thinks President Carter is Right, Too

• September 19, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Health, Health Care/The Public Option, History, Obama Administration, Public Intellectualism, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Anti-Racism, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Bill O'Reilly, Congress, Dr. William Cosby, Facebook, Faux Noise, Fox News, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, NBC, President Carter, President Obama, Racism

Happy Mother’s Day from SNL?

• May 10, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Film, Television
Tags: "Dick in the Box", "Motherlover", Andy Samberg, Justin Timberlake, NBC, Patricia Clarkson, Saturday Night Live, Susan Sarandon

So far, The Roots are doing better than Jimmy Fallon

• March 12, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Television
Tags: CBS, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Late Night TV, NBC, The Roots, The Tonight Show

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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.
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.
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.
Mexico migrants: Deadly fire at Juárez migrant centre kills at least 39 March 28, 2023
Mexico's president says the blaze started during a protest by migrants fearing deportation.
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.
Twenty pilgrims killed in Saudi Arabia bus crash March 28, 2023
The bus was carrying pilgrims to Mecca when it hit a bridge in Asir province and burst into flames.
Lisbon stabbing: Two women killed at Ismaili Muslim centre March 28, 2023
The attacker was arrested after the incident at the city's Ismaili Centre, Portuguese police say.