As we reported earlier , the saga of the recently perforated New York Giants wide receiver, Plaxico Burress, continues to unfold and the story just gets curiouser and curiouser, to quote Alice. With that in mind, we thought it would be appropriate to bring you up to date on the latest news and responses from around the web. The Big Apple’s Mayor Bloomberg has weighed in on the subject and...... [Show More]
Hillary Clinton has been named the new Secretary of State by President-Elect Obama. Â Many questions have been raised about the appointment as the two were constantly at each other during the primaries questioning each other’s abilities for the job of President.
Obama seems to be letting go of the past, and looking towards the future.
Barack Obama has also seen fit to keep Robert Gat...... [Show More]
President Bush praised his administra tion&rsquo ;s HIV/AIDS efforts Monday morning at the White House, but the Black AIDS Institute blasted U.S. efforts, declaring "America has utterly failed to invest meaningfully in ending a domestic epidemic that is spiraling out of control.&q uot;...... [Show More]
The emerging new black leadership owes black America tangible change. Across the blogosphere , in newsprint and on television and radio pundits are breathlessly hailing the rise of the Joshua Generation.
While initially used by the Barack Obama campaign as a title of a program that reach out to potential young evangelicals and Catholic voters it is now used to distinguish a growing group of...... [Show More]
The Daily Voice - Black America’s Daily News Source wrote a fantastic post today on “Pre sident-ele ct Obama’s Thanksgiving address” Here’s ONLY a quick extract
Invoking the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, President-elect Barack Obama said that this Thanksgiving “the American people can give thanks that a new and brighter day is yet to come.” Remarks of Pr...... [Show More]
AAPP says: I have been trying to understand why the Congressional Black Caucus and Barack Obama seem not to get along. this appears to be a case of "old negro self hatred vs new black political thinking and doing." The Congressional Black Caucus announced its new leaders without mentioning President-elect Barack O...... [Show More]
Is this the day?, read this post
Barack Obama is putting together an all-star team of advisers to join his administration. Barack Obama hasn’t been sworn into office yet, but his incoming administration is already drawing comparisons to past presidents, as far back as Lincoln. Like Obama, Abraham Lincoln was a member of Congress from Illinois before he was elected president during a time o...... [Show More]
Michelle Singletary has a great article in The Washington Post regarding the bailout “Bait and Switch” and how Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cumming 's questioning of Neel Kashkari , the interim assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability, had her hollering. She writes how she usually don't enjoy watching congressional hearings and how they are often packed with...... [Show More]
We searched all around the Saturday Night Live web site to try to find a copy of the skit with Justin Timberlake and Beyonce Knowles performing the dance routine for the song "Single Ladies."...... [Show More]
Comedian Wanda Sykes surprised a crowd in Las Vegas on Saturday by announcing that she is gay and had wed her wife in California last month....... [Show More]
caught my eye Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Nov 15 2008 04:03:13
Heart As Arena - Dig it, all you hepcats.
A kind way of telling the NY Times that they suck.
(tags: art nyc msm )
Art History Newsletter - The amorality of art historians
Hmmm…this is a tough argument though one that may be true…gonna have to think about this.
(tags: art )
Daily Voice - Obama’s Racial Balancing Act
So far, Obama hasn...... [Show More]
Author Lamar Ariel has just release an innovative and exciting collection of letters in his first book, entitled Ready to Male. The work infuses elements of short story and memoir writing styles to provide a snapshot of the author’s ongoing journey to creatively examine rather than dismiss his personal thoughts. Author Lamar Ariel has just released an innovative and exciting collection of l...... [Show More]
One of the reasons that Barack Obama won the election this year is the continued inability of the economy to produce jobs. The nation’s unemployment rate climbed to 6.5 percent last month. But the Black unemployment rate remained substantially higher at 11.1 percent, nearly double the rate for whites [ SOURCE ]. The 6.5 percent overall rate marked a 14-year high in joblessness and was creatin...... [Show More]
Yesterday, about 1,000 gay-marriage supporters demonstrated outside a Mormon temple in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. The temple was targeted because the Mormon church strongly supported the ban on gay marriage.
“I’m disappointed in the Californians who voted for this,” said F. Damion Barela, 43, a Studio City resident who married his husband nearly five months ago. He no...... [Show More]
All day today, we will be live blogging the 2008 presidential election on The Daily Voice. Click the link here to see the full coverage.
Clintons voting in New York
9:15 a.m.: Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton are at their polling place in Chappaqua, New York at this moment.
Biden voting in Delaware
8:53 a.m.: Joe Biden arrived at his polling place i...... [Show More]
Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother has passed. I’m sure Michelle Obama feels badly for not accompanying her husband to Hawaii to say her goodbyes.
Barack Obama’s grandmother, who helped raise the Democratic presidential candidate in Hawaii, passed away Monday after a prolonged battle with cancer. Madelyn Dunham, 85, had been gravely ill for weeks, prompting Obama to interrupt his ...... [Show More]
A school newspaper in New Jersey has apologized for running a cartoon that referred to Barack Obama using the N word. But the African American cartoonist defends the work....... [Show More]
Senator Barack Obama appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday night and talked about "The Bradley effect" and whether some voters would want to drink a beer with him....... [Show More]
Si hay algún sector que realmente va a ganar mucha pasta con la crisis, ese va a ser el de los videojuegos, y es que al no tener dinero para hacer grandes viajes, el entretenimiento casero es el que va a ir aumentando de manera vertiginosa, cosa que saben, y muy bien, las empresas creadoras de juegos interminables, y si encima el juego se llama Guitar Hero estoy seguro que más de uno ya ha com...... [Show More]
So D.L. Hughley now has a show on CNN that is supposedly reinforcing stereotypes and racism. I haven’t had a chance to view this show in it’s entirety so I really can’t really judge. The only thing I’ve seen is the clip above and I’m not appalled by it. However, I’d just like to know how this got on CNN.
A journalist for BETJ said this about the show, ...... [Show More]
Tony Hawk has joined Kobe Bryant , Alex Rodriguez , and Michael Phelps to dance around in their underwear in the latest Guitar Hero commercial according to a post on The Daily Voice .
The basketball, baseball, swimming and skateboarding stars appear on screen, a la Tom Cruise dancing to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock And Roll” in the movie Risky Business . . . The ad, wh...... [Show More]
Logo announced on Monday that its new romantic comedy Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom, "soared" to the top of U.S. theatrical independent film box office with an estimated opening weekend gross of $161,302, or approximately $32,261 per screen....... [Show More]
Latest cable news links [11:15 am]:
Kurtz : Olbermann vs Hannity.
Punditry dream team ?
Clash of the titans.
Hughley debut: Cable Game , Kos , Voice , Baltimore Sun .
Another Fox-basher surfaces .
O’Reilly ratings rebuke razzed (via ’ boomer ).
Hot & Not .
Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today’s open t...... [Show More]
The scare tactics of the John McCain team.
More race baiting from the John McCain /Matt Drudge campaign . Or as The Field Negro said, another white person cries wolf: or, in this case, Obama.
AAPP: It was great that CNN refused to pump up the story. Fox & Friends’ loved to pump up her lies , and race baiting political hate crime . If this was the 1940’s an...... [Show More]
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