RIP Eartha Kitt

Most people my age remember Eartha Kitt most fondly for her role as “Lady Eloise” in the early 1990s flick, Boomerang, for which she and Grace Jones, steal the show. I was never a huge Eartha fan, but she’s always … Continue reading read more »

New Orleans Violence #1: White Vigilantes Murder 11 Post Katrina

If anyone believes that because of Obama’s election, we are in some moment of “post-racial” America, needs to…well I am not exactly sure what they need to do. The truth is, the evidence that we are any further along in … Continue reading read more »

Cadillac Records: What LIES Beneath

I grew up on blues music. My grandmother who just passed was a lover of BB King, Albert King, Bobby Blue Bland, and a number of other musicians. I have a subscription to eMusic.com, really for the sole purpose of … Continue reading read more »

Queer Black Cinema Takes NYC This Weekend

Noah’s Arc isn’t the only movie featuring the Black queer community. And if you want a little more gender parity of Black queer life in the mix, you can’t miss this weekend’s Queer Black Cinema Film Festival in New York … Continue reading read more »

Noah's Arc: Why I Want to Hate it, But Can't!!!

When I heard that there would be a Black gay series on the first all-LGBT cable network, LOGO, I was highly skeptical. Who wouldn’t be? Hollywood (including gay cinema) has such a bad track record presenting Black people period, let … Continue reading read more »

Tropic Thunder: The Joke's On Who?

So last week when Tropic Thunder opened there was a controversy over Robert Downey Jr.’s use of the word “retard” in the script (and I think some really disgusting mockery of people with disabilities in the film). The film’s opening … Continue reading read more »

Shock of the Week: Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years for No Tax Pay?

I don’t know why I’m shocked-this is America and Wesley Snipes is Black. But the actor got 3 years for non-payment of taxes-which is a misdemeanor crime???? One year for each year he didn’t pay? It’s not about how I … Continue reading read more »

Boondocks Takes on BET

Remember just a few short weeks ago I said that Hillary Clinton’s campaign made a huge mistake to have choice of BET founder Bob Johnson stumping for her to the Black community? You don’t? Well here’s what I brilliantly predicted: … Continue reading read more »

NYC Theater Bags 'Dirty Laundry' After Smash Weekend

This is an instance where “green” does not override “black.” Even in limited release in LA and NYC, the new comedy “Dirty Laundry” was the highest grossing movie per screen this past weekend, making a whopping $12,000 per screen, with … Continue reading read more »

Seeing My Relatives in Africa

Yesterday I was watching the History Channel. There was a two-hour documentary called Blood Diamond. It chronicled the history of diamond mining in Africa, and what lead to the conflicts in Angola and Sierra Leone/Liberia over the last decade or … Continue reading read more »