On June - 24 - 20093 COMMENTS
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It begins here
Okay, all the hatin' over the BET Awards show is really getting silly. Don't like BET? Then work on changing the culture FIRST. If you can change the culture, you will decrease demand for what you feel misrepresents Black folks. Do it the other way around, and more "BETs" will pop up. Need an example? Some of y'all may remember back in the day when local churches would stage protests in front of local porn shops. Did they manage to get a few of them shut down? Sure did. But how did the porn industry respond to meet demand? They moved ...
Flake fest
I think many of us knew that it would not take long for folks to suddenly act as if they have been ardent Michael Jackson supporters for years. Jackson was hammered repeatedly by critics for allegedly being ashamed of being Black due to all the plastic surgery and the mysterious lightening of his skin. Black folks slammed him on this and White folks were given full and complete license to also question his racial identity and joke about it. Then I remember what Jamie Foxx said the other day at the BET Awards show: "Michael Jackson was a black ...
Rushmore Drive bites the dust
I think a lot of us saw that coming from a mile away. From AdAge.com RushmoreDrive.com, the first black search engine, recently shut down only a year after its launch. This raised the question about whether there is a market for a black version of Google. Rushmore Drive was the brainchild of Barry Diller's IAC, which just reported a "first-quarter net loss of $28.4 million compared to a profit of $52.8 million in the same quarter a year ago." Too bad. Rushmore's failure is not only another negative statistic from the fallout of the economic downturn, but also from questionable planning. (more...) Kevin Walker, ...
“perv dad for fun”
From townhall.com "Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment. University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a “perv dad for fun.” The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted ...
Defining “meddling”
Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop "meddling" in the affairs of another country, like Bush did. Apparently Somalia wasn't included in that memo. U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government washingtonpost.com The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past ...
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On June - 10 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
"An Orlando bank called Urban Trust Bank and owned these past three years by Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder and billionaire Robert Johnson is coming to the Tampa Bay area. The bank, which already operates branches in Walmart stores, is buying seven of the giant chain's in-store bank branches from Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks. They include locations in Bradenton, Bartow, Brandon, Lake Wales, Naples, Osprey and Sebring." (more from blogs.tampabay.com)
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On June - 3 - 20091 COMMENT
Here's your chance to check out, support and create buzz for new Black films. Today is the second day of the Hollywood Black Film festival and even if you cannot make it, check out the site.
The gallery below are just a few films that caught my attention.
1. Afia
Being a kid can be tricky. Just ask Afia. She's a misunderstood 9-year old Michael Jackson fanatic whose unusual antics get ...More
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Kim Jones is practicing hard and packing her bags for a trip to Asia to make history. On June 2, 2009, she will become the first black woman and African American female to compete in billiards for a world title. (Read more from mxmbilliards.com...)
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