Subject BMA Entertainment News Description David Gyasi will make up the starring cast of 7 for a new BBC2 drama series titled White Heat, which is said to be an updated version of an older BBC drama serial, Our Friends In The North. The cast was first announced […]
Subject Sports Description In a perfect news vacuum, the story of James Neal being fined $2,500 by the NHL for his high sticking incident with P.K. Subban would likely just be a blip on the radar. You know, guy does something wrong, gets busted, pays fine – end […]
Subject BMA Entertainment News Description Comedian Marlon Davis says that making light of serious issues can have positive effects. COMEDIANS ARE a lucky set of people. They’re able to get to the heart of any subject and say whatever they want about it – as long as they […]
Subject Film Description David Oyelowo has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. He has headed to Virginia and will play the role of a cavalryman. Oyelowo takes the job while he’s concurrently shooting the Christopher McQuarrie-directed One Shot with Tom Cruise starring as Jack Reacher in the […]
Subject Black History Celebration Description 2012 is going to be a big one for David Oyelowo! Good for him! Dude’s got skillz! 4 films he has starring roles in are set for 2012 release dates, scattered throughout the year – Red Tails, Ava DuVernay’s Middle Of Nowhere, Lee […]
Subject Music Description Despite the episode described in our December/January cover story, “The Long Way Home”—during which Drake stormed off the set of our photo shoot—Aubrey Graham is a gracious host. After that incident he invited us to join him and his OVO crew for dinner at the […]
Subject Music Description After a short delay from the originally scheduled release date (and an album leak), Drake’s highly anticipated Take Care hit stores on Tuesday, Nov. 15 and has both fans and critics talking. The album is Drake’s sophomore studio release — a follow up to 2010’s […]
Subject Sports; Boxing Description THE BOXING fraternity was a dealt a major blow last week with the news that legendary heavyweight ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier had passed away after succumbing to liver cancer. Frazier fought in a golden era of boxing – competing more than once against the likes […]
Subject Entertainment Description “[As a boy] I could have had a fight every day because of being called wog, nig-nog, blackie, sooty, coon … Having grown up with that, I understand how Othello would feel.” 2009. “Comedians say, ‘I killed the audience, we annihilated them’ — it’s become […]
Subject Masters, Chess, Gaming Description Fewer than 2 percent of the 77,000 members of the United States Chess Federation are masters — and just 13 of them are under the age of 14. Creator Dylan Loeb McClain Source https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/crosswords/chess/chess-three-young-african-americans-earn-recognition-as-masters.html Publisher nytimes.com File
