According to publicist Patti Webster, entertainment columnist Jawn Murray, most notably known as entertainment correspondent for “The Tom Joyner Morning Show” and for his daily column on AOL Black Voices, offered, Friday, a public apology for his joke that many people feel offended black women. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/23002
Blues Hall of Fame inductee Sonny Terry was a blind blues legend of the harmonica who played with other greats of the blues, including Brownie McGhee and Woody Guthrie. Born Saunders Terrell, the Greensboro, North Carolina native was known for his use of whoopin’, hollering and imitating sounds of fox hunts in his music. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/22998
In contemporary art history, 30-something-year-old black artist Kara Walker has pushed the boundaries of expression in her life-sized black silhouettes that bring an artistic vision to civil rights history, racial and gender oppression. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/22956
Some people just don’t break up well. When it’s over, there’s a whole bunch of fussing and fighting, accusing and screaming, allegations of physical abuse or drug use or both – or worse. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/life_style/love_relationship_life_style/22958
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
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
Award-winning author Ann Petry was the first African-American woman writer to attain bestseller status in the United States. Though born to a family with privilege, she and her sisters were subjected to many incidents of discrimination while growing up black in privileged society. As a child, she remembers being forced to read the parts of […]
Clara Brown was a slave from Virginia, who spent her entire life looking for her 10-year-old daughter, Eliza Jane.
On Friday, not long after the jingle ended, I went to see the movie “Waiting for Superman” with my senior producer Nikki Woods and writer Mary Boyce, a.k.a. Mamas Gone Wild. If you haven’t seen it yet, “Waiting for Superman” takes a look at the public school system in this country, shows us how jacked […]
In 1781, Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman became the first African-American slave to win her freedom through a court of law. The case was held in Massachusetts, which, coincidentally became the first state in the Union to abolish slavery. Many attribute the decision to the Freeman case and two others in the state. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/22826
Down in the delta of Indianola, Mississippi in 1891, a prominent Fisk University graduate by the name of Minnie Cox would be appointed the first African-American postmaster in Mississippi. From a well-to-do family in the south, she was favored among the black elites. However, her re-appointment to a third-term as postmaster would almost cost Cox […]
Funkster George Clinton is still rocking at the age of 70, in part because he’s still owed millions of dollars in royalties for his Parliament/Funkadelic work over the past several decades. As he explains in TV One’s latest edition of “Unsung,” which re-airs on Monday, Oct. 18th at 10 p.m., many recording artists were robbed […]
