Within 24 hours, Juan Williams lost his job as an analyst at NPR, only to sign a lucrative $2 million contract with Fox News. Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes took a jab at NPR in his statement announcing the three-year deal. “He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is […]
Ron Artest(notes) was on Jimmy Kimmel’s chat show Wednesday night and, yeah, he’s still quite the character. Ron Ron showed up wearing shorts, athletic socks, slippers, a goofball cowboy hat, an appropriate fake beard, and a T-shirt bearing his picture and a “Let’s do it!” tagline that ostensibly was in place […]
The African Grove Theater was founded in lower Manhattan in 1821. Other black theaters were attempted, but the African Grove would become the most mainstream black theater in its time. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/22918
Usher took his sons to a pumpkin patch last week and tweeted this pics of his sons Usher Raymond V and Naviyd Ely Raymond carving them!
Naomi Campbell, dressed in fur, is fronting the Fall/Winter 2010 campaign for Dennis Basso. She donned the animal accessories this past summer on a 90-degree afternoon, while posing at a gas station in New York’s Meatpacking District. It was during this shoot that paparazzi snapped photos of Naomi (and her horrible hairline). The photos later […]
The Tom Joyner Morning Show’s” Sybil Wilkes is being featured on an e-card sponsored by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Circle of Promise and Essence magazine in an effort to encourage African-American women to focus on the effort to end breast cancer. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/22920
In addition to bank-owned properties, there are two types of foreclosures you can buy: 1. pre-foreclosure; 2. sheriff’s auction. All three are affected by concerns over the way foreclosures have been handled. Read More:
Michael Jordan bought a 2007 Mercedes McLaren SLR 722? That’s one of the best cars ever made. Nice move, M.J. Read More:
Eddie Murphy has just signed on to star in “Tower Heist,” the crime caper that he was originally going to lead when the project was first conceived in 2005 as an all-black version of “Ocean’s Eleven.” According to EW.com’s “Hollywood Insider,” the original idea of an African-American “Ocean’s Eleven” was […]
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Venus Williams isn’t satisfied with just being a Grand Slam champion, an interior designer, a clothing designer, an author and a commercial pitchwoman. As if she didn’t already make most mortal women feel like complete underachievers, Williams now has a new venture. Her computer game, “Venus: The Case of the Grand Slam Queen,” is now […]