Tameka Foster is proving that she’s more than just Usher’s ex-wife. She’s a savvy business woman with a recently-opened third business under her belt. On January 22, Tameka opened KangaZoom, an indoor children’s play and party center in Alpharetta, Georgia. Being that Tameka is a mother of five boys, we can see where she got […]
When Booker T. Washington stepped to the podium at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895 to give a speech on race relations, two things happened. First, many fellow Black Americans, including W.E.B. Du Bois, derided his speech as “The Atlanta Compromise,” because Washington called the agitation for social equality “the extremest folly,” advocating instead slow, steady, […]
Florida — Freshman Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) recently got personal in an attack on one of the House’s two Muslim representatives, declaring that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) represents “the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established.” During an interview with “The Shalom Show,” West also said that he plans to […]
Cynthia Bailey, of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” fame, and her husband Peter have offered up a first look at their wedding. In the photo, Cynthia wears a non-traditional, voluminous gray-silver gown. Peter’s tux matches his wife dress in a light gray. The photo appears in the current issue of ESSENCE, and more pics of the […]
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We love to see sitcoms with actors who look like us, talk like us, and act like us, but we know such shows are in small supply. To make up for the small amount of television shows with people who look and sound just like us, we supplement them with shows about people who live […]
Bang Bang Bang…John Witherspoon reminisces on his experiences with pimping and driving a cadillac that leaked oil way black when in Detroit…..
New York — MSNBC never had any doubt about what it was getting when it made Keith Olbermann the face of the network in 2003: a highly talented broadcaster, a distinctive and outspoken voice and a mercurial personality with a track record of attacking his superiors and making early exits. Even his own boss, Phil […]
New York — A foul-mouthed murderer who made a raunchy request to a Brooklyn judge before his sentencing on Monday received plenty of prison time to rethink his choice of words. Zaire Paige, 24, was hit with 107 years to life for killing Lethania Garcia and wounding four others in a brazen October 2008 Fort […]
New York — Juan Baten, a 22-year-old Brooklyn worker, was killed early this morning after tumbling into a mixer at a tortilla factory, police said. The freak accident happened at Tortilleria Chinantla in Williamsburg at 2:30 a.m. when Baten tried to retrieve an item after dropping it inside the waist-high machine, investigators said. Investigators believe […]
Black Entertainment Television {BET} – First black owned company to be listed on the NYSE, begins broadcasting from Washington, DC.
