NAACP endorses “Madea” character?
Back in the early 19th century, black people were made to look like “coons,” “buffoons,” “mammies,” and other stereotypical caricatures for mainstream white audiences but we could always trust on the good ol’ NAACP to hold us down. Like in 1915, The Birth of a Nation, which is still considered one of, if not the […]
Consequence Breaks Down Black Actors
Black actors are the type-cast assembly of Hollywood personalities in the history of American entertainment. Though February is over, we could still learn a thing or two about Black History, in particular the actors we continually see on television and the big screen. We, as a viewing audience, take for granted the amount of hard […]
Foolish: Shawty Lo and His New Reality Show
In 2008, Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo released Units In The City, which featured plenty of hood classic songs that still rock to this day. When hearing this CD, I never once thought that he was a man of high moral standards or sound judgment, in fact when you actually listen to his lyrics (which are […]
Spike Lee calls Django Out
Spike Lee, never one to be afraid of speaking his mind, most recently made news for his comments to Vibe Magazine regarding the highly anticipated Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained, due out on Christmas Day. Lee commented, saying that the film is “disrespectful to my ancestors” and that he will not be one of the […]
Who’s Black In America? Review
The all too familiar topic of skin color was once again revisited on a national scale Sunday night by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien in Who’s Black In America? My earliest recollection of this topic was Spike Lee’s 1988 groundbreaking film School Daze, where light and dark skinned female college students vehemently hated and taunted each other […]
Are Reality Shows Good for Rappers?
What ever happened to rap? I can still remember in 2005 when The Game first came out with his debut album The Documentary, my college friends and I played it nonstop seemingly for weeks as we crowned it as an instant classic and a great addition to his G-Unit partner 50 Cent. Not only was […]
WAKE UP!!!
We’ve all heard the common argument that TV, BET in particular, is poisonous and only targets the weak and vulnerable minded with shows that offer little to no substance. BET, VH1, MTV—all owned by Viacom networks, who I admittedly too have been critical of in the past and present that offer little to this argument […]
Rappers Rocked The Vote
Now that the election has run its course, T.J. Holmes of Don’t Sleep With T.J. Holmes challenges his audience to continue the fight and remain engaged in politics that will affect them in the short term. Noting that because the U.S. Congress was unable to come to a resolution on the debt crisis, the average […]
Alex Cross Proves To Be Dud
Now that it’s been over a week, critics and fans alike have weighed in on Perry’s latest film, and the reviews have been less than stellar. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times was quoted saying “A grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent, directed by Rob Cohen, this is the first […]
Who’s Really Clueless?
Stacey Dash, a woman many of my male friends grew up adoring and now my adult friends still think of her as one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women has thrown her name into the socio political debate. Dash, recently on her Twitter account came out and showed support for Mitt Romney as opposed to the […]
