BET Finally Ready to Premiere Tatyana Ali's 'Buppies'

May 31, 2009 No Comments

Tweet Tatyana Ali will be getting BET’s first exclusively online show this summer. The show, called “Buppies,” is about the socialite daughter of a Hollywood celebrity father (“Baldwin Hills”?) who clings to her friends (“Harlem Heights”?) after his death. The show was announced last fall and has survived a torrid pace of revisings and is ...

10 Questions Inquiring Minds Be Wanting to Know

May 30, 2009 No Comments

Tweet It’s always good to get questions that we have out of the way sometimes. These are few that are bugging me and that I had to purge from my mental Rolodex: (1.) How many of you knew Bad Boy singer Cassie’s last name was “Ventura?” (Be honest). (2.) How many of you said “Cassie ...

The 'Black-Jewish' White House: Really?

May 30, 2009 No Comments

Tweet An extraordinary alliance is being touted in some circles as it’s been pointed out that the current makeup of the White House may usher in a long-lasting comraderie between blacks and Jews. The power-pusher has been identified as Mona Sutphen, a half-black, half-Jewish woman. And Obama’s mother is Jewish, which makes him half-Jewish as ...

Will Smith's Ex Starts Shea Butter Business

May 29, 2009 No Comments

Tweet There are a host of clever business names out there, especially little cute day cares and home-based businesses that play on words and the like. Then there is Sheree Zampino-Fletcher’s new shea butter business: Whoop Ash.I didn’t make that up, Whoop Ash. Sheree and obviously some ill-meaning soundboards actually thought about this and went ...

Definition of Happiness: 'Resting Place'

May 27, 2009 No Comments

Tweet I found this definition of happiness on the NY Times this morning. I love it. It is taken from Rousseau’s :“Reveries of a Solitary Walker” If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being there, with no need to remember the ...

When is the right time to explain racism to a child?

May 26, 2009 No Comments

Tweet This story is old hat, but the issue remains current. When your 7-year-old points out the label on your new couch, you know something is wrong.“She’s very curious and she started reading the labels,” Moore explained. “She said, `Mommy, what is nig … ger brown?’ I went over and just couldn’t believe my eyes.”The ...

Michelle Obama likes to get "touchy"

May 26, 2009 No Comments

Tweet The ever-loving First Lady Michelle Obama is mentioned in the latest Time Magazine that she likes to physically bond with children. She gets “touchy with kids, because I think if I touch them and I hug them, that they’ll see that it’s real, and then they’ll relax and breathe and actually kind of enjoy ...

29 and with 20 Kids: Somethin' Wrong?

May 26, 2009 No Comments

Tweet You of course have never heard of Desmond Hatchett, but he makes OctoMom look like Mary Poppins. See, Mr. Hatchett, according to the state of Tennessee, has 20 possibly 21 children. Mr. Hatchett is 29.Other numbers? Eleven mothers, possibly more.The kids range in age from newborn to 11.The big number though, is that Hatchett ...

Amanda Diva spits "Hot S—t"

May 25, 2009 No Comments

Tweet [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxSW7SNhbLg&hl=en&fs=1]This is some ole retro Amanda Diva, the Columbia University-educated rapper **slash** actress.

The Prevalence of the word 'Niggas' on Twitter. Epic Fail or Reality?

May 24, 2009 No Comments

Tweet I know people say it’s a difference between the words “niggas” and the other N-word, but I can’t help but feel a certain kind of way to know that people are tweeting about any and everything. The word is being typed into Twitter literally at least 10 times a minute. Constantly. Is that cool, ...

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