Longtime political activist, former Black Panther member and BLA Co-founder Dhoruba Bin Wahad gets in-depth about the Obama administration and Jay-Z's relationship as well as the recent call by the...
America's Commander-In-Chief and the nation's 1st black president has probably been photographed more than any other U.S. president. Here's volume 1 of our salute to President Barack Obama!
President Obama showed out during the 2013 White House Correspondence Dinner. The President of The United States, poked fun at everyone from Jay-Z to Taylor Swift and don't think he did not let the...
Roughly two weeks after a coalition of more than 175 celebrities, Civil Rights activists, scholars, and athletes signed a letter to urge President Obama to end the failed War On Drugs,
Across the pond (much like here at home), Michelle Obama is considered fashion royalty.
Fresh off her April Vogue cover, our First Lady has claimed the top spot as "best dressed" on Britain's Sunday Times Style Magazine.
To promote the latest issue, the glossy released an ad featuring a profile of Michelle wearing a crown on a first-class postage stamp- a spot traditionally reserved for...click to continue reading
The First Lady ROCKS the Cover of VOGUE with CLASS!
Every bit as beautiful as you could have ever imagined. The Epitome of Classy, BlackGirl. First Lady Michelle Obama Out Jackie's Jackie O in this soft, pretty and elegant Cover and spread in the April 2013 VOGUE.
FLOTUS Michelle Obama Graces VOGUE Cover April 2013
Photographed by famed fabulous Photographer Annie Liebovitz at the White House, the First Lady showed completely out in a delicious Reed Krakoff form fitting dress, showing off those amazing arms and oh so tiny waistline.
Effortless Class...
This is First Lady Michelle Obama's Second Time on the Cover and honestly, her beauty is timeless, represents Sistas and can DO NO WRONG!
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Kanye West goes on another rant during his latest performance in London and this time the Grammys and Obama feels the wrath. He also expressed his sentiments on Timberlake and Jay-Z collaboration...
An Upper West Side Whole Foods has removed a sign that used a drawing of President Barack Obama to advertise a sale on chicken after complaints that the ad was offensive.
The sign outside the supermarket on Columbus Avenue and 97th Street featuring an apparent caricature of Obama advertising an upcoming sale on whole organic chicken outraged neighbor Woody Henderson.
"There are certain things that have been used to put down black people - watermelon, fried chicken," he said.
Jason Nunez of the Bronx said, "Even if he's not the president, you're going to have an African American promoting the sale of chicken? They can do better than that."
Residents and passersby agreed the man in the sign looks like Obama but not all thought it was derogatory. What do you think?
AMBER BOOKS TITLE "OBAMA TALKS BACK: GLOBAL LESSONS - A DIALOGUE WITH AMERICA'S YOUNG LEADERS" BY GREGORY J. REED, ESQ., WINS THE COVETED AND PRESTIGIOUS NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR LITERATURE.
National - February 1, 2013 - Amber Books, the award winning imprint of Phoenix, AZ based, Amber Communications Group, Inc., was announced as an NAACP Image Award winner for "Best Literary Work - Youth/Teens" - for its title, "Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America's Young Leaders" by Gregory J. Reed, Esq., and has earned an NAACP Image Award for Literature at the 44th Annual NAACP Image Awards Show, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2013.
Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc., stated in his acceptance speech, "On behalf of Amber Books, Gregory J. Reed, Esq., and the Keeper of the Word Foundation, we are extremely excited to have been honored with an NAACP Image Award for Literature.", Rose added, "I want to thank God, with whom all things are possible and Gregory J. Reed, Esq., who brought "Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America's Young Leaders", an outstanding and historic collection of student letters to President Barack Obama, and his responses to those students from all across America, along with the President's speeches, public statements, and quotations during his campaigns and tenure as President of the United States of America, to Amber Books.
Rose stated, "We thank the NAACP Image Awards, The 44th Annual Image Awards Sub-Committee Members, The NAACP Voting Members, our NAACP Image Awards Literary Coordinator, Annette Thomas, for her diligence and hard work on behalf of our African American Literary Community, and I thank my wife, Yvonne Rose, The Associate Publisher of Amber Communications Group, Inc., for her and her editorial and design team's tireless work, and technical and creative skills, in making a great book even greater".
Rose further added, "Thank you to everyone who made this outstanding NAACP Image Award in Literature possible!!! Thank you".
Best Literary Work - Youth/Teens "Fire in the Streets" - Kekla Magoon (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) *WINNER "Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America's Young Leaders" - Gregory Reed (Amber Books) "Pinned" - Sharon G. Flake (Scholastic Press) "The Diary of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess" - Alice Randall (Author), Caroline Williams (Author), Shadra Strickland (Illustrator) (Turner Publishing Company) "The Mighty Miss Malone" - Christopher Paul Curtis (Wendy Lamb Books (Random House Children's Books))
Other NAACP Image Award recipients included: Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Denzel Washington, "Flight"; Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Viola Davis, "Won't Back Down"; Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture - Samuel L. Jackson, "Django Unchained"; Best Actress in a Drama Series - Kerry Washington, ABC's "Scandal"; Best Motion Picture - "Red Tails" and Best Independent Motion Picture - "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; Best Literary Work Fiction - Kimberla Lawson Roby "The Reverend's Wife"; Best Literary Work Non-Fiction - Jeffrey Toobin "The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court" and Best Literary Work Children's - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "What Color is My World".
The NAACP Image Awards celebrates the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature and film and also honors individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors. The literature award winners were announced during a pre-show star-studded event, at the Shrine Auditorium at 3:00pm, prior to the live show on Friday, February 1, 2013, which aired at 5:00pm PST on NBC.
President Barack Obama achieved a landslide victory in 2008 and 2012. He has touched the lives of young people, more so than any previous president. During his presidency, he sought to continue that inspiration by maintaining an engaged relat
While most of us were celebrating the inauguration of President Obama during Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Professor Cornel West did a critical analysis and comparison for the fight that Martin fought and the message Obama delivered.
"You don't play with Martin Luther King, Jr. and you don't play with his people, said West. "By his people, I mean people of good conscience, fundamentally good people committed to peace and truth and justice, especially the Black tradition that produced it."
"All of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a Martin Luther King, Jr. generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don't use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry without understanding the challenge he represents to all of those in power regardless of what color they are.
"The righteous indignation of a Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a moment of political calculation. And that makes my blood boil. Why? Because Martin Luther King, Jr died…he died…for the three crimes against humanity that he was wrestling with. Jim Crow, traumatizing, terrorizing, stigmatizing Black people. Lynching, not just 'segregation' as the press likes to talk about. "Second: Carpet bombing in Vietnam killing innocent people, especially innocent children, those are war crimes that Martin Luther King , Jr. was willing to die for. And thirdly, was poverty of all colors, he said it is a crime against humanity for the richest nation in the world to have so many of it's precious children of all colors living in poverty and especially on the chocolate side of the nation, and on Indian reservations and Brown barrios and yellow slices and Black ghettos - we call them hoods now, but ghettos then.
"So I said to myself ain't nothing wrong with putting your hand on the bible, even though the bible's talking about justice, Jesus is talking about the least of these, but when you put it on Martin's bible, I said 'this is personal for me,' because this is the tradition that I come out of."
Lupe Fiasco is known for speaking his mind regardless of who might catch feelings. Even when he is at an event full of Obama supports on the day of his inauguration. Lupe performed "Words I Never...
President Barack Obama gives an inspirational speech filled with passion and purpose, to the hundred of thousands supporters who turned out for his 2nd term as President of the United States of...
Last night (January 20), Lupe Fiasco was removed from the stage at Sunday's StartUp RockOn concert at the Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C., as part of the weekend's inaugural festivities.
In an anti-Obama performance, Lupe Fiasco performed his 2011 track "Words I Never Said," in what has been described was a 30 min rant.
Taking his stance on the United States and Israeli conflict, and stating that Glenn Back and Rush Limbaugh were racists, Lupe ripped President Obama for what he viewed as a lack of support for the Gaza strip and other issues close to his heart.
"And these the same people supposedly telling us the truth/ Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn beck is a racist, Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn't say sh-/ That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either/ I'm part of the problem, my problem is I'm peaceful," Lupe rapped.
While many have speculated that Lupe was kicked off the stage for his political beliefs, in a statement released by HyperVocal, the event's organizers say they were dissatisfied with his overall performance and that it was time for the next act.
"This was not about his opinions. Instead, after a bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied, organizers decided to move on to the next act," HyperVocal said in a statement to the press.
Lupe is well-known to be outspoken with his political beliefs, as Lupe has been quoted in the past stating that he refuses to pledge allegiance to the United States flag due to his belief that it goes against the Muslim faith. In the past Lupe Fiasco has even gone as far as to call President Barack Obama a terrorist and refused to vote in last November's elections.
TONIGHT IS YOUR NIGHT!!! IN HONOR OF MLK DAY AND THE 2ND INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!!! SEIZE YOUR DREAM!!!
I had expected to be speaking today at an event, however we weren't able to get anything on the books in time for today. I still have something in my heart to deliver to you!
However, In honor of MLK Day 2013 and the 2nd Inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States, President Barack Obama, I will present to you a dynamic mini-symposium on the power of your dreams.
If you follow Big Boi on twitter like I do then you should already have an idea of his political views. Personally I find myself having more in common with Big Boi's political views than most people which is one of the primary reasons I do follow him on twitter. I don't follow many artists on twitter unless they do have something significant to say or if they are able to bring my attention to something important other than "entertainment". I'm an independent & I agree with many of the views of the Libertarian party although I don't have any political affiliations with ANY political party. In the last presidential election my views fell in line more with candidates like Jill Stein or Gary Johnson more than President Barack Obama, but unfortunately the way the American political process works it was clear to me Jill Stein & Gary Johnson didn't have a shot at actually winning. Although more independent voices are cropping up over the past decade the reality is until there is significant campaign reform candidates like them many never have a real shot. In an ideal world I would have voted for either of those two, but I feel wasting a vote on a candidate that is unable to actually win played a huge part in my personal decision & voting for Mitt Romney was entirely out of the question. In a recent interview on HuffPost Live, Big Boi sets the record straight for people who "assumed" he voted for President Barack Obama in addition to a few other hot button topics. Check out more of the interview in the videos below after the jump.....
BIG BOI SPEAKS ON GUN RIGHTS (VIDEO)
BIG BOI SPEAKS ON OUTKAST REUNION (VIDEO)
BIG BOI GIVES ADVICE FOR NEW ARTISTS; SAYS BE ORIGINAL (VIDEO)
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