Spike Lee Endorses Bernie Sanders in Radio Ad
Filmmaker and New York native Spike Lee made his support for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders known in a radio ad released Tuesday morning.
Filmmaker and New York native Spike Lee made his support for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders known in a radio ad released Tuesday morning.
When Disney’s “Girl Meets World” actress Rowan Blanchard interviewed Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards for Paper Magazine, the 14-year-old star called the woman running America’s largest abortion provider her “role model.”
Days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Georgetown Law Professor Gary Peller wrote in an email to his colleagues and Georgetown University Law Center Dean William M. Treanor that Justice Scalia “was a defender of privilege, oppression and bigotry, one whose intellectual positions were not brilliant but simplistic and formalistic.”
Nashville Public Library officials informed Nashville’s chapter of Black Lives Matter members that the group’s “open to black and non-black people of color only” meetings policy is prohibited on public property.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential war chest boasted a January haul of $130.4 million, thanks in part to A-list Hollywood luminaries like Mark Hamill, Goldie Hawn, Teri Hatcher, Alfre Woodard, and Chevy Chase, according to the latest FEC data calculated by Bloomberg.
Flanked by liberal legislatures like John Lewis and Black Lives Matter founders Brittany Packnett and DeRay Mckesson, President Obama told the room full of young militant leftists that they “are much better organizers” than he was at their age, and that he is “confident that they are going to take America to new heights.”
Hillary Clinton enlists actor Morgan Freeman, Hollywood’s “voice of God,” to narrate her latest campaign ad, entitled, “All The Good.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a room full of supporters Friday that if he were president, he “will do more for the African-American people in one year than Barack Obama has done in his seven year, soon to be eight years.”
In two years, New Orleans-based rapper Dee-1 went from being a student loan debt-ridden middle school teacher to a man with a major recording deal and a hit record pillorying his now-paid debt to Sally Mae.
During ESPN’s Black History Month coverage on Thursday, the network aired a segment called “Rise Up,” which enraged several viewers who took to Twitter to air their grievances.
Actor Kiefer Sutherland compared leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to former Alabama Governor George Wallace, a lifelong Democrat and a dedicated segregationist.
Suffolk County, New York residents are furious that a Black History Month poster the reads, “Stop The Violence. Black Lives Matter. Stop The Racism,” has been prominently displayed in a county courtroom.
Mark Hensch, a staff writer for The Hill, wrote an article tiltled, “Kiefer Sutherland: Trump recalls segregationist George Wallace,” in which Hensch wrote, “Actor Kiefer Sutherland sees similarities between GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace (R), one
Dawson, Georgia, Mayor Christopher Wright was implicated Wednesday during court testimony in the trial of a man accused of molesting and having sex with a young boy and a 12-year-old girl.
An obscure Sacramento, California, based hip-hip group named Blackalicious released a new music video showing footage of the police shooting of Walter Scott, New York City cops choking Eric Garner, and the Michael Brown crime scene in the few seconds of the three minute clip.
Decorated Marine veteran Christopher Marquez was eating dinner in Washington, D.C., last Friday, when, reportedly, he was viciously attacked by a gang of black teenagers, who asked the war hero if he believes black lives matter.
PBS aired its Stanley Nelson-directed documentary Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Tuesday evening, and the film became the fuel that launched #BlackPanthersPBS as a top trending topic on Instagram and Twitter.
PBS aired the Stanley Nelson-directed documentary Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Tuesday, which put a positive spin on the sordid history of one of America’s most infamous radical black nationalist groups.
Compton, California-based rapper Kendrick Lamar received praise from the Obama White House for his racially and politically charged performance at the 58th annual Grammy Awards where Lamar and his backup dancers sang the song “The Blacker The Berry,” clad in prison uniforms and chains.
Just when the world went back to ignoring Kanye West’s latest Twitter tantrum, the rapper continued his crass commentary by begging “white publications” to stop writing about “black music.”
While Hillary Clinton is looking to clinch the Democratic nomination with strong support from black voters in southern states, her husband Bill Clinton’s recent comments may end up alienating them.
Mere moments before his performance on Saturday Night Live and hours before his new album was available exclusively on Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s struggling streaming service TIDAL, Kanye West begged his 18 million Twitter followers to “Pray” that he “overcome” his massive debt obligations.
Oscar winning actor and Obama supporter Richard Dreyfuss fired back at his critics after he was attacked for being seen talking to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz backstage at a recent rally.
Actor, rapper, and Lip Sync Battle host LL Cool J defended Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance of the politically charged song, Formation, backed by dancers dressed as Black Panthers, saying “There’s always been some element of counterculture that has existed in music.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a far-left writer and a famous national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, has endorsed socialist Bernie Sanders for president.
Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn McCarrel shot himself Monday on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Bernie Sanders has a breakfast appointment Wednesday morning with MSNBC host and longtime Africa-American power-broker Al Sharpton. The two will reportedly meet Wednesday at the Harlem-based restaurant Sylvia’s, the same haunt that Sharpton chose when he sat down with then-Sen. Barack
The profanity-laced lyrics praising Red Lobster in Beyoncé’s anti-police song, “Formation,” have reportedly resulted in a windfall for the Florida-based seafood chain.
Asked what she thought of Beyoncé’s black power Super Bowl halftime show honoring Malcolm X, the former Nation of Islam leader’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, said she “absolutely loved it.”
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted Beyoncé’s Black Panther Party tribute at the Super Bowl, calling the performance an “attack [on] police officers.”
Jay-Z and Beyoncé being praised as politically powerful purveyors of pro-Black Pantherism is not without irony.
The part-socialist, part-black nationalist Black Panther Party is headline news again, thanks to Beyonce’s Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance of her song “Formation,”–“a big wet kiss to Black Lives Matter” that pays tribute to the 1960s militant group.
On the eve of her Super Bowl 50 half time show performance, Beyonce released a politically-charged video, “Formation,” featuring scenes set in the devastated and flooded urban areas of New Orleans and the plush halls of some Louisiana mansions.
During the question and answer portion of a town hall event Wednesday in Minnesota, Chelsea Clinton referred to Hillary’s Democratic rival as “President Sanders.”
During a recent CNN interview with several “Hollywood heavyweights” about the lack of diversity among this year’s Academy Awards nominees, film director Spike Lee chided his “progressive” counterparts in the industry for not being “active” in this “movement.”
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg has, again, trashed the phrase “African-American” and those who choose to “hyphenate” America.
Outspoken actress Stacey Dash has written another blog post, this time urging black people to not “listen to liberals who try to limit you.”
A study from The University of Chicago revealed that 47 percent of 20 to 24-year-old black males in Chicago were out of school and out of work in 2014.
Renowned neurosurgeon-turned-Republican-candidate Dr. Ben Carson scolded the media for twisting his words in pursuit of “ratings” and “conflict.”
White actor Joseph Fiennes has been cast to play Michael Jackson in “Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon,” a new comedy based on a rumored story about how the King of Pop tried to flee New York City, along with Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, after the 9/11 attacks.