Feb. 15 - 21, 2009 Malcolm X was assassinated this week at the age of 39 years old. Learn more African American history. Meet more black history makers from the fields of art, politics, business and more.This Week in Black History -- $3.5 Trillion Budget Sets New Priorities as Big Deficits Loom President Obama’s budget plan tries to trim a
deficit estimated at $1.75 trillion for 2009 as it redirects wide
streams of spending. To translate his vision into a budget, the president needs to create
coalitions issue by issue, while holding his party together and curbing
Republican attacks.President Obama is to announce that would pull combat forces out by
August 2010 while leaving behind a residual force of 35,000 to 50,000
troops.A couple of dozen players appear to have lost significant weight in the off-season, all in the name of health and agility.Its planes are packed with travelers who love its affordable, hip
service. Still, 19-month-old Virgin America might be the most
endangered airline.(CBS/AP)
The District of Columbia's two-century-long wait for a voice in
Congress was a step closer to ending Tuesday with a crucial Senate vote
to take up legislation giving the capital city's 600,000 residents a
full seat in the House.
The Senate voted 62-34, two more than needed, to begin debate on
the measure that would increase the House to 437 members. It would give
the Democratic-dominated city a new vote while adding a fourth seat to
Republican-leaning Utah.
Key to the vote was that Democrats, who overwhelmingly support the
bill, have seven more Senate seats than two years ago when the chamber
fell three votes short of the 60 required to end a Republican-led
filibuster.CONTINUE READING Apparently, it was nothing personal after all. TIME FOR MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION Apparently, it was strictly business all along.
After generations of defending capital punishment and marijuana
possession laws on moral, ethical and religious grounds, after years of
declaring that the death penalty acted as a deterrent against violent
crime and that pot smokers were more dangerous to society than, say,
alcohol consumers, all of a sudden thanks to our economic crisis more
and more mainstream powerbrokers are considering dramatic changes to our criminal justice system.
CONTINUE READING Rapper 50 Cent had been making light of the altercation between
Chris
Brown and Rihanna in comedy skits on his
Thisis50.com Web site, but the
artist had a come-to-Jesus moment when he saw the leaked photos of her
cuts and bruises.
TMZ.com is reporting that the passenger who was with
Morgan Freeman
during his near-fatal car crash in August is now suing the actor over
the accident, claiming he had been drinking before he climbed behind
the wheel of her car.
Check out this Nigerian commercial that both encourages safe sex and
advertises a condom called Trust. The innuendo in the ad will make some
of you sisters want to get your Nigerian airfare together today!
There's a little twist at the end of the commercial that suggests that
all of the stereotypes about black men have been true, but maybe
undersold. :) A publicist for late actress/singer
Eartha Kitt is outraged that his
former client was not included in the
"In Memoriam" segment during
Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony.More details have been released regarding
LL Cool J's announced role in
CBS' planned spinoff of "NCIS."Amid an impressive amount of media hype,
Tiger Woods' return to golf at
the
Accenture Match Play Championship began yesterday in
Marana, Ariz.
It's his first
PGA TourPreviously known as 'Bone Deep,' play since his eight-month hiatus from knee
surgery.the Screen Gems film is a crime
thriller being produced by Will Packer ('Stomp The Yard,' 'This
Christmas') and starring Chris Brown, T.I., Idris Elba, Matt Dillon,
Paul Walker, Michael Ealy, Hayden Christensen, Zoe...
Read more Clay Cane's interview with the legendary Diahanna Carroll for BET.com. Diahann talks Halle Berry, Dorothy Dandridge, Hollywood and more. She also stomps the madness of some people who were offended at Halle's role in Monster's Ball.
Estelle and Solange’s show at the House of Blues on Wednesday night
and let’s just say it was definitely the place to be. Solange opened
the show playing a short set including some of the crowd favorites,
“T.O.N.Y.” and “I DECIDED.” I definitely loved how she mixed Devin The Dude and The Cardigans in with some of her performance tracks.
You have to see the show to find out which ones. By the way, she
sounded great live and worked the stage like nobody’s business. Backstage was cool, Solange was preparing while American Idol played in the background. Little Julez was surfing around on the internet and laughing. Popular singer D.A. Wallach from Chester French and DJ Willie Shakes were also backstage waiting on the upcoming show. Everyone was cool and down to earth. Didn’t get to meet the lovely Estelle, but maybe next time. Her set was the truth though! She does not play when it comes to performances.THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 --- 12p.m. CST (1p.m. EST/10a.m. PT)
Just days after the official release of his debut novel NUMBERS, Hip-hop music legend Dana Dane talks to Conversations LIVE! Radio Listen to the interview live on Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 12p.m. CST (1p.m. EST/10a.m. PT)
as Dana Dane talks about the transition from music to books, how his
experiences affect what he writes and what is coming up next for him.
At show-time simply visit http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive or listen via the radio switchboard at 1.347.426.3645. Singing about the history of the drum and its cultural importance, samba school Salgueiro scored 399 points out of a possible 400, and was crowned champion of the Carnival parade at the sambódromo in Rio this year. HOLLYWOOD — While T.I. loves DJ Drama, that doesn't mean Dram gets any preferential treatment. "Drama is Grand Hustle," Tip said on the set of Drama's "Day Dreaming" video.
"Grand Hustle is me all day. I don't do Drama's records for him more
than I do any of my other artists' records for them. If it's a record
they have an idea for me being on, I wait for them to do all their
[other] records. The record they approach me and say, 'Hey, this the
one I think I need you on,' I listen. At the end of the day, I defer to
their comment. 'Is this the one? OK.' And we do it." 
A number of questions have been raised in the wake of the alleged altercation between Chris Brown and Rihanna on February 8. One of the biggest questions has been how Brown's arrest will affect his image and, ultimately, his career. Bow Wow
told MTV News on Wednesday that Brown's career shouldn't be of any
concern: "I just want people to know that as entertainers, our job is
to entertain." BEVERLY HILLS, California — Imagine that you're a professional
thespian, challenged with the opportunity to portray a tiny, pixilated
video game character who rarely speaks. Backstory? The character looks
like a badass and can throw fireballs. Your motivation? Apparently it's
to rip your opponent's spine out and accumulate extra lives. "The advantage, I think, is that there's already something
there — like a platform to grow from," observed 26-year-old
"Smallville" star Kristin Kreuk, who plays the title character in the
new video-game-to-movie "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." "The
disadvantage? There are a lot of individual viewpoints on how that
person should be, because all of these people have a really wonderful,
personal experience with that character. Just like anything that is
pre-existed, it is a challenge to find your own way through that when
there are so many pre-existing ideas."
In case you don't recognize hot new model Nate Gill wearing clothes—remember, first time he was practically naked wearing only a pair of tight underwear—that is him featured in a new editorial in the March Out. Uber-sexy Laveranues Coles, is a free man.
The New York Jets restructured the contract of their veteran wide
receiver, allowing the player to become an unrestricted free agent when
the signing period begins at midnight. The Jets are off the hook for
the guaranteed $6 million Coles was due this upcoming season.
Flo Rida has decided to remove a collaboration track with Chris Brown
from his upcoming R.O.O.T.S album due to the singer's publicized issues
with Rihanna. On Tuesday, February 24, the Apollo Theatre welcomed a group of black
people so distinguished; it was as though the Harlem Renaissance never
ended. From politicians like Massachussets Governor, Deval Patrick, to
legendary film director Melvin Van Peebles; Dr.Valerie Montgomery-Rice
to New York Giants Defensive End, Justin Tuck; Activist, Majora Carter
to Saturday Night Live star, Maya Rudolph, the place was packed all in
attendance for the HBO screening of The Black List: Vol. 2, produced by writer and critic Elvis Mitchell and directed by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
