Damn. They're on to us. That's the first thing that popped into my head after I spotted the EW article on Tyler Perry's "controversial movies" over at Issa Rae.  I agree with Issa. That article is irksome. I feel like that ridiculous cousin that talks about you all the time but wants to start swingin' when other people start to do it. Hypocritical. I know.  

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Everyone is working up a frenzy over this New York Post cartoon.  

  So yeah. It's in bad taste. Black folk have a long history of being referred to as monkeys, but we're also talking about a cartoon in a Rupert Murdoch publication. Murdoch owns News Corporation. News Corporation owns every FOX channel. FOX is the primary news channel that employs a whole bunch of conservative hacks that went after President Obama something terrible during the election.… Read More

So, I have a thing for film and television award shows. I can sit through what seems like all 12 hours of the Oscars or the Emmys and feel like I just watched an OJ Simpson interview. Sometimes they're painful to sit through, but I can't turn away. It's something about watching an executive producer, or writer (aka the people that actually make a film happen) get cut off by crappy music - while the likes of Kate Winslet fake cries and is allowed to go on and on and on during an acceptance speech - that lights my fire.     I was in church getting my praise on so… Read More

    Mozilla thinks so. Today the folks who brought us FireFox rolled out BlackBird, a web browser targeted toward African Americans. Developed by black-owned… Read More