Wendy Williams Show ‘outs’ Jamie Foxx on new baby

13Aug09

Loose lips . . . Speak your peace.

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Tags: Garcelle Beauvais, jamie foxx, new baby, Wendy Williams Show

Michael Jackson film may be released Oct. 30

23Jul09

Sony Pictures is reportedly paying close to $60 million to AEG Entertainment for the 80 hours of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” concert rehearsal footage. Before the icon’s sudden death on June 25, the 50-night concert was set to begin this month in London at the O2 arena. Sony is planning to release a film […]

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Tags: michael jackson, michael jackson film, sony music entertainment, sony pictures, video of michael jackson watching rehearsals

Jena 6 get plea deal

29Jun09

You may recall the six young Black men in Jena, La., who were charged with attempted murder for a schoolyard fight with white schoolmate Justin Barker. After a major civil rights demonstration protesting the inappropriate severity of the charges, international media attention, and fund-raising to pay for legal representation, the charges were later reduced to second-degree […]

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Tags: Bryant Purvis, Carwin Jones, jena 6, Jesse Ray Beard, justin barker, mychal bell, Robert Bailey Jr, Theo Shaw

FOX adds diversity exec as VP

22Jun09

FOX is making a seemingly serious effort to embed diversity themes and talent at the earliest stages of program development. Ron Taylor, the TV network’s new VP of diverse programming and content, is the most recent example of this effort. Taylor will oversee script development reflective of diverse themes and/or written by writers from diverse […]

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Tags: diversity in media, diversity in the workplace, FOX TV, ron taylor, TV program development

1st openly gay candidate runs for Detroit’s city council

09Jun09

Detroit’s former FOX affiliate WJBK newsanchor and former WJLB-FM radio host Charles Pugh announced recently he will run for a seat on Detroit’s 9-member city council. He is the troubled city’s first openly gay political candidate. He shared his lifestyle with Detroiters five years ago and saw his popularity soar. Now he’s banking on his local-name […]

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Tags: African American, charles pugh, gay politicians, wjbk-tv, wjlb-fm

Black actress appears in mega-blockbuster

11May09

Veteran actress Zoe Saldana, 30, plays the lovely Nyota Uhura in the new Star Trek prequel, directed by J.J. Abrams, that opened in theatres over the weekend and soared to #1 with an estimated $76.5 million in box-office receipts. The role of Uhura was made famous by Nichelle Nichols in the 60s TV series by the […]

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Tags: avatar movie, CHRIS ROCK, Columbus Short, Danny Glover, death at a funeral movie, drumline, guess who, IDRIS ELBA, LORETTA DEVINE, MARTIN LAWRENCE, matt dillon, Michael Ealy, nichelle nichols, nyota uhura, star trek, takers movie, the losers movie, william shatner, zoe saldana

Columnist Eugene Robinson wins Pulitzer Prize

21Apr09

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize Monday for his commentaries on the 2008 presidential campaign. He says he had to face the challenge “to believe what we were seeing and hearing and experiencing and not what we were expecting.” Apparently, even Robinson didn’t expect President Obama to win. The Pulitzer Prizes are determined and […]

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Tags: columbia university, eugene robinson, President Barack Obama, pulitzer prize, Washington Post