The New 411 Sheryl Lee Ralph, who was Tony-nominated for her performance as Deena Jones in the original company of the award-winning musical Dreamgirls, will join the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Wicked” next month. Beginning […]
by Kam Williams Tyler Perry in ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ No one has ever accused Tyler Perry of being short on ideas. After all, the prolific writer/director has been the brains behind a profusion […]
Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley, his mother. Gunmen recently fired bullets into a sign commemorating where Emmett Till’s beaten body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955 after Roy Bryant and his half […]
White supremacist David Duke has qualified for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate debate scheduled for November 2 at Dillard University, a Historically Black University based in New Orleans. Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, […]
Black American Author wins Man Booker Prize U.S. author Paul Beatty wins Man Booker Prize Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout, was named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize this week, the first American […]
by Frederick Lowe With the 2016 Presidential election around the corner on November 8th, The Sentencing Project is reporting that 6.1 million individuals will be prohibited from voting because of felony convictions and most of […]
For the very first time in several years, Forbes’ annual list of celebrity money-makers has a new comedian topping the list. For years, Jerry Seinfeld topped the list. But for the first time since 2006, […]
By Julianne Malveaux The countdown to President Obama’s last one hundred days began on October 13. Already, the President has committed to spending his waning days in office by campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic […]
By Pamela Kruger, Fortune.com Ava DuVernay was finishing up her civil rights drama, Selma, when she got a call from a Netflix executive: Would DuVernay be interested in making a documentary? DuVernay, who had previously […]
by Reggie Fullwood “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me,” said Ralph Ellison. Many of our young black men are invisible to those who have the resources to help them. And […]
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