Al Jazeera America to Air Current Affairs Show With Kim Bondy
Al Jazeera America, the new American news channel that will launch later this year, announced Thursday that a one-hour current affairs magazine program called...
Alice Walker Writings Draw Fresh Attack from Anti-Defamation League
Alice Walker (Courtesy Photo/Facebook)
The Anti-Defamation League on June 18 derided Pulitzer Prize-winning author and essayist Alice Walker over the “fervently anti-Jewish ideas” that they...
Black Writer Named to Second Term as the Nation’s Poet Laureate
African-American poet Natasha Trethewey has been reappointed to another term as Poet Laureate of the United States, “the nation’s official lightning rod for the...
Black Filmmakers to Carve Niche in South Florida’s Film Industry
FEC to meet minds on fostering Black movie presence
Black filmmakers and TV producers will meet during a power packed session to discuss making their...
Judge Accused of Making Racial Comments Under Review
A council of federal judges in Washington will look into a misconduct complaint against a conservative judge who’s alleged to have made racially discriminatory...
Rep. Hank Johnson Helps Secure HBCU Funds
Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) has helped secure $5 million to increase funding for science research at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority...
Stop, Frisk and Swab: America’s DNA Database
Alonzo King
American criminal justice entered a new era when the U.S. Supreme Court decided recently that law enforcement could take DNA samples from arrestees....
Craig Robinson Feature —“This Is the End”
SAN FRANCISCO – Comedian Craig Robinson, who audiences may best remember as Darryl Philbin, the warehouse manager on the long-running hit NBC TV show,...
Winfrey and Perry: A Match Made at OWN
“The Haves and the Have Nots”
His first dramatic series, “The Haves and Have Nots” premiered May 28. The hourlong drama series became OWN’s most...
Spiritually Speaking…God, Man’s Final Frontier and Last Result
The older I get the more convinced I am that I am going to surely fail, fail miserably as a matter of fact, in...
