• November 29, 2013 •
Comments Off on Amber Riley (from “Glee”) Becomes The Seventeenth Season Winner of “Dancing With The Stars”
Posted in Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Health, Music, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series
Tags: "Dancing with the Stars", 17th Season, ABC, African Americans, Amber Riley, B-Lister, Black Women, Blacks, California, Charleston, Corbin Bleu, Derek Hough, DWTS, Encouragement, Freestyle, Glee, Hines Ward, Karina Smirnoff, Knee Injury, Knees, Kristi Yamaguchi, Los Angeles, Mercedes Jones, Mirror Ball Trophy, New York, Obstacles, Painkillers, Pro, Professional Dancer, Riley, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth
• August 12, 2013 •
Comments Off on “Stop and Frisk” Ruled Unconstitutional in New York City: Attorney General Holder May Strike Down Current Sentencing Rules for Nonviolent and Lower Level Offenders
Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Obama Administration, People of Color, Police Misconduct/Killings, Puerto Ricans, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Smart on Crime", African Americans, Blacks, Commissioner Ray Kelly, Common Sense, Constables on Patrol, Drugs, Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Judge Scheindlin, Justice Department, Latino, Latinos, Low-Level Offenders, Manhattan, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York, New York City Police Department, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York Times, Nonviolent Drug Offenders, NYPD, Peter Zimroth, Police, President Barack Obama, Racism, Scheindlin, Shira Scheindlin, The Justice Department, The Obama Administration, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, United States
• July 9, 2013 •
1 Comment
Posted in Acting, African American History, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Health, History, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Love, Miles Davis, Music, Ray Charles, Stroke, Weather Report
Tags: "Mercy Mercy Mercy", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Buckinghams, Cannonball Adderley, Club DeLisa, Electric Piano, Fusion, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Joe Zawinul, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Julian Edwin Adderley, Mercy, Miles Davis, New York, Ray Charles, Roy McCurdy, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Wayne Shorter, Wurlitzer Electric Piano
• July 3, 2013 •
Comments Off on Paying For Your Paycheck: Companies Using Prepaid Cards That Charge Fees to Pay Hourly Employees
Posted in American History, Class, Consumer Fraud, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, History, Labor History, Obama Administration, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Chase, Debit Cards, McDonalds, NetSpend, New York, New York Times, Paycheck, Payroll, Payroll Cards, Stored-Value Cards, Taco Bell, The Poor, Visa
• July 3, 2013 •
1 Comment
Posted in Acting, African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Differently-Abled, Drug Culture/Industry, Film, Health, History, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, New Orleans, Race, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Burton, California, CNN, Geordi La Forge, Kunta Kinte, LeVar Burton, New Orleans, New York, Reading Rainbow, Roots, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tim Wise, United States
• June 16, 2013 •
Comments Off on Sidney Poitier as Seen by His Two Youngest Daughters on Father’s Day
Posted in Acting, African American History, Arts, Black Actors and Actresses, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Education, Film, Holidays, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Japan, Love, People of Color, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom
Tags: Bill Cosby, Diahann Carroll, Joanna Shimkus, KBE, New York, Poitier, Sidney Poitier, Sir Sidney Poitier, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, The Bahamas, Tisch School of the Arts, UNESCO
• April 12, 2013 •
Comments Off on I Think LL Cool J Stepped In It Again on The Tonight Show Thursday Night
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
• March 31, 2013 •
Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, March 30, 2013: “Just The Way You Are,” Billy Joel, 1978 (In Memory of Phil Ramone)
Posted in American History, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, History, Music, Soundtracks, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Just The Way You Are, "The Stranger", Billy Joel, CDs, Chick Song, Columbia Records, Dolby Laboratories, Duets, Elizabeth Weber, Elton John, George Martin, Grammys, Jack Arnold, Jazz, Joel, Karen Ichiuji Ramone, Liberty DeVitto, Linda Ronstadt, Love, Matthew Ramone, Music Producer, Naturalized American, New York, Optical Surround Sound, Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, Pop Music, Ramone, Simon Ramone, South Africa, The Eighties, The Seventies, William Ramone
• April 29, 2012 •
Comments Off on Some Sunday Love: The Band (with the Late Levon Helm on Drums), “Don’t Do It,” New Year’s Eve, New York City Academy of Music, 1971
Posted in Cancer, Cultural History, Film, Health, Love, Music, Music Videos, The Band
Tags: "Rock of Ages", Allen Toussaint, Band, Canada, Canadians, Garth Hudson, Holland Dozier and Holland, Levon Helm, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Music from Big Pink, New Orleans, New York, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson
• March 16, 2012 •
Comments Off on Herbie Hancock Talks About How One Could Make Peace Happen
Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Cultural History, Education, Herbie Hancock, Love, Music, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Buddhism, Cosby Show, Herbie, Herbie Hancock, Love, Madison WI, New York, New York City, Nichiren Buddhism, Peace, Religion and Spirituality, SGI-USA, Tico Wells, UNESCO, United States, Wisconsin, World Peace, YouTube
• January 11, 2012 •
3 Comments
Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film
Tags: African Americans, Apollo Theater, Appearances, Baltimore, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Bill Duke, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Channsin Berry, Children, Color Politics, Colorstruck, D. Channsin Berry, Dark Skin Prejudice, Documentary, Facebook, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Harlem, Light Skin Privilege, Love, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, New York, New York City, One Night Only, Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie New York, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Showings, United States
• December 12, 2011 •
Comments Off on “Men in Black 3” Trailer Released, Slated for May 25, 2012 Release
Posted in Acting, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Distribution/Business, Film
Tags: "Men in Black", Actors, African Americans, Agent J, Agent K, Downtown, Existence, Films, Josh Brolin, Men in Black III, New York, Stars' Trailers, Summer Films, Time Travel, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
• December 1, 2011 •
Comments Off on Christmas Songs: Ray Charles and Betty Carter, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” 1961
Posted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Betty Carter, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Holidays, Japan, Love, Ray Charles, Women
Tags: "Baby It's Cold Outside", "Neptune's Daughter", Academy Award for Best Original Song, African Americans, Betty Carter, Betty Garrett, Billboard Top 100, Black Women, Blacks, Christmas Songs, Cold, Comic Relief, Cult Appeal, Cult Status, Duets, Esther Williams, Excuses, Frank Loesser, Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Holiday, Japan, Jazz, Love, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mouse, New York, Ray Charles, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Sex, Snow, Synchronized Swimming, Temptation, United States, Wolf, Wolf Call, Wolf Whistle
• November 22, 2011 •
Comments Off on Retired Philly Police Captain Raymond Lewis Arrested with Other Occupy Wall Street Activists; He Says It Was the Proudest Moment of His Life
Posted in American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Budget Cuts, Class, Cultural History, Environmental Crimes, Homelessness, Joblessness, Labor History, Obama Administration, People of Color, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: Action, Activism, Arrest, Captain Ray Lewis, Demonstration, Iraq War, Lewis, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, New York Observer, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Philadelphia Police Department, Police Officers, Political Activism, Rant, Ray Lewis, Retired Captain Raymond Lewis, Scott Olsen, Symbol, Sympathy Vote, Wisconsin
• May 28, 2011 •
Comments Off on 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
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
• May 16, 2011 •
3 Comments
Posted in Africans, Bailouts, Class, Crime, Cultural History, France, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Immigrants, African Woman, Anne Sinclair, Bedclothes, Consenting, Consenting Adults, Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France, IMF, International Monetary Fund, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, Nicolas Sarkozy, Not Consenting, NYPD, Perp Walk, President of France, Rape, RTL, Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, Socialist Party, Socialists, Special Victims Unit, Switzerland, The Socialists, Towels, Tristane Banon
• May 6, 2011 •
Comments Off on Phoebe.
Posted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Differently-Abled, Health, Jews, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Phoebe Snow, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "Fresh", African Americans, Ashkenazi, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzey, Billie Holiday, Blacks, Bohemian, CeCe Peniston, Children, Constables on Patrol, Differently-Abled, DNA Analysis, DNA profiling, Four-Octaves, General Foods, George Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Greenwich Village, Growing Up, Hallmark, Howard Stern, Iberian Peninsula, Jackson Browne, Jewry, Jews, Jimi Hendrix, Love, Martha Graham, Mavis Staples, Medically-Induced Coma, Michael McDonald, Michelob, Mother, Mother's Day, Muslims, New York, New York Rock and Soul Revue, Passing, Phil Kearns, Phoebe Ann Loeb, Phoebe Snow, Poetry Man, Robert DeNiro, Santana, Sephardic, Singer Songwriter, Sly Stone, Television Commercials, The Seventies, The Sisters of Glory, Thelma Houston, TV Commercials, Valerie Kearns, Woodstock 25
• April 30, 2011 •
Comments Off on That Brother in The “Detectives” Nicorette Gum Commercial
Posted in Black People, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Crime, Cultural History, Television, Television Series
Tags: "Dave", "Malcolm in the Middle", "The Bold and The Beautiful", African Americans, Arts, Blacks, Cartwright, Chiat Day, Dan Martin, Dave Kovic, Double, Duane Stevenson, Fringe, Kevin Kline, New York, Nicorette, Shark, Ving Rhames
• March 26, 2011 •
7 Comments
Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, En Vogue, Fashion, Jody Watley, Love, Music, Music Videos, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "(My Lovin') Never Gonna Get It", "Funky Divas", African Americans, Alameda County, American Music Award, Arts and Entertainment, Baltimore, Billboard (magazine), California, Children, Dawn Robinson, EnVogue, Foster & McElroy, Girl Group, Jody Watley, Love, MTV Video Music Awards, Music, New York, Oakland, Oakland CA, Rufftown Records, The Nineties, United States
• March 8, 2011 •
1 Comment
Posted in Africans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Fashion, Gossip, Michelle Obama, People of Color, Women
Tags: "The National Enquirer", African Americans, Age, Ambush, Ambushed, Attractiveness, Beauty, Black Women, Bossip, David Bowie, Fashion, Fashion Model, Fashion Sense, First Lady Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, FLOTUS, Iman, Looksism, Michelle Obama, New York, Older Black Women, Older Women, Self Image, Supermodel, The First Lady, United States
• February 28, 2011 •
Comments Off on The P.S. 22 Chorus Closes The Oscars
Posted in Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Love, Music, People of Color, Television, The PS 22 Chorus
Tags: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "The Wizard of Oz", 1939, Academy Award, African American Children, Anne Hathaway, Asian American Children, Children, Colin Firth, Dreams, European American Children, Fifth Graders, Glee Club, Growing Up, James Franco, Kirk Douglas, Kodak Theater, Kodak Theatre, Latino American Children, Love, New York, Oscars, P.S. 22 Chorus, Singers, Staten Island, The Future, The Thirties, United States, YouTube
• February 27, 2011 •
Comments Off on The P.S. 22 Chorus from Staten Island Will Appear on Tonight’s Oscar Show
Posted in Acting, Arts, Awards, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, Music, People of Color, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The PS 22 Chorus
Tags: ABC, Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Disneyland, Fifth Graders, Graniteville, Gregg Breinberg, Justin Timberlake, Kodak Theatre, New York, Nicole Kidman, P.S. 22 Chorus, Sandra Bullock, Staten Island, The Oscars
• February 23, 2011 •
Comments Off on Malcolm X’s Daughter, Malikah, Jailed in North Carolina for Grand Larceny and Forgery
Posted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Betty Shabazz/Shabazz Daughters, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Crime, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Alcohol Abuse, Assassination, Betty Shabazz, Black Women, Children, Columbia SC, Drug Abuse, Drugs, FBI Informant, Grand Larceny, Khaula Bakr, Larceny, Louis Farrakhan, Madison County, Malcolm Shabazz, Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Motherhood, New York, North Carolina, Plea Agreement, Psychological Counseling, Psychological Problems, Qubilah Shabazz, Queens, Racism, Sean Devereux, Twins, United States
• February 9, 2011 •
Comments Off on UPDATE: The Craigslist Congressman Resigns–It Was a Sista Who Turned Him In
Posted in American Politics, Class, Cultural History, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Women for Men", Abyssus Abyssum Invocat, Age, Chris Lee, Christopher Lee, Craigslist, Danielle Belton, Facebook, Gawker Media, Gmail, Lying, Member of Congress, New York, Republicans, Republicans Behaving Badly, Single Black Woman, The Black Snob, The Craigslist Congressman, The Swirl
• December 9, 2010 •
2 Comments
Posted in Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Fashion, Uncategorized
Tags: "Amélie", Acme Idea Co., Advertising Campaign, Agatha Christie, Audrey Tautou, Belgian, Belgium, Commercials, Costa del Sol, David Suchet, Godiva Chocolatier, Hercule Poirot, Madison WI, Marbella Spain, New York, New York Times, PBS, Public Broadcasting System, South Norwalk, Spain, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Television Commercials, The New York Times, Voiceover, Willy Street Coop, World War II
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