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In 1968, Director George Romero sought out a cast for his newest horror movie called “Night of the Living Dead.” Unlike his other films, Romero wanted to include an African-American hero. The chosen actor to fight the zombies was Duane Jones. In his role as Ben, Jones became the first African-American to be cast as […]
Hear the Little Known Black History Fact :Chuck Brown Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation’s capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75. Brown, widely acclaimed as the “Godfather of go-go” for his pioneering sound, died Wednesday at Johns […]
DETROIT (WXYZ) – Pastor Marvin Winans’ SUV remains missing as of Thursday morning and so do the men who punched, kicked and robbed the famous gospel singer. Winans was pumping gas Wednesday afternoon at a Detroit Citgo station on the corner of Linwood and Davison when at least two men ambushed him. The carjackers took his […]
Sybil Wilkes is normally the voice of reason, the stable one on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. This morning however, Sybil let her feeling be heard as she sounded off on the behavior of Basketball Wives cast members and producer Shaunie O’Neal. Click here to hear SYBIL BB WIVES
A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he […]
The Mount Auburn Cemetery is Baltimore’s oldest black cemetery, and one of the oldest black cemeteries in the country, holding over 55,000 families. Dating back to 1872, the cemetery was the known resting place of Joseph Gans, the first lightweight boxing champ, civil rights activist Carl Murphy and John Henry Murphy, the founder of the […]
DALLAS (AP) — For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf. Now the first black woman to represent North Texas in Congress faces serious opposition in the May 29 primary election, and the effort to unseat her is just one of […]
It is well known folly to raise politics, religion or race unless you are cruising for a fight. Yet, the president of the United States…
WASHINGTON (AP) — William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America’s Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with collecting liquor tax revenue from wholesalers and retailers in post-Reconstruction Mississippi. He joined the military at the start of the Civil War and later was politically active, championing civil […]
Former Def Jam Records President Kevin Liles has made a career of helping entertainers get to the top and stay there. Now he has launched a non-profit effort to help ordinary people get their acts together. Last month Liles started the “Make It Happen Career Motivations” Challenge online, and already more than 10,000 people have […]
Back in the day, a lot of us would tune into Saved By The Bell every week to see what some of our favorite Bayside high schoolers would get into next. Lark Voorhies, also known as Lisa Turtle on the show, was one of the three beautiful women on the show, but now everyone’s crush appears to […]
I’ve spent the majority of my adult life being a parent – more than 20 years. That’s a new revelation for me and it has caused me to recall where it all started: Instead of living on a college campus, I was serving in the military. When I thought I would be finishing my degree, […]
