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With Willow Smith being the latest Black child actor to hit the scene we wanted to go back in time and remember our favorite Black child actors. Willow Smith To Star In “Annie” Remake Take a look: Terry McMillan Thinks The Smith Kids Are Being “Pimped”: Is She Right? Willow Smith In Vanity Fair [PHOTOS]
Recently I heard the distressing news that in a school in Memphis, 90 girls were pregnant or had become mothers in the last year. Shelby county, where the school is located, is a very poor area with almost 100% of the students qualifying for federal funding for free school lunches. In this school, a student […]
Following the phenomenal success of her novel, Still Dirty, reigning urban fiction queen and Essence bestseller list fixture Vickie M. Stringer will keep fans riveted again. With her savvy thriller DIRTIER THAN EVER (Atria Books; On-sale February 16, 2011; $16), the third installment featuring the baddest of bad trio Raven “Red” Gomez; Bacon, her abusive […]
We asked Comedian Shang, “Emmanuel Lewis or Gary Coleman?” Check out his answer below! // RELATED: The Greatest Black Sitcoms of All Time Competition RELATED: Top 9 Music Videos of the 1990s
Ralph Ellison’s powerful novel, Invisible Man, wins the National Book Award of 1952.
The lovely Kimora Lee Simmons, mogul, mom, wife, philanthropist and entrepreneur, is thrilled about Season 4 of her blockbuster docu-series “Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane.” Kimora has been making exciting life changes, saying goodbye to the past and hello to a glorious new future with husband, actor Djimon Hounsou, and gorgeous children Aoki, Ming […]
When you come to New York, going to watch a television show taping goes hand in hand with seeing the Statue of Liberty and eating a hot dog from a street vendor in Central Park, as essential things you must do. So this morning, I went to sit in the studio audience of Live with […]
If the early 1990’s will be remembered for one thing, it’s the sound of a dog barking, but not by a dog itself, by a man named Arsenio Hall. Though Hall at the time was most famous for his starring role as Eddie Murphy’s sidekick in Coming To America, Hall would eventually step into his […]
1948- President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in US Armed Forces.
Black Entertainment Television {BET} – First black owned company to be listed on the NYSE, begins broadcasting from Washington, DC.
If you are like me and have no interest whatsoever in the upcoming Super Bowl, and are met with looks of horror when you accidentally let slip that you have absolutely no idea about the game, about the players or about the history of the great game, then I have just the solution for you. […]
Last week we opened the voting for our Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition. Yesterday voting closed for round 1 and we’re down from 64 shows to 32. Based on the seeding of the editorial team we didn’t see any upset loses although we were surprised to see the short-lived 90’s sitcom “Thea” beat out […]
