VIA: Entertainment Weekly While big-studio releases like A Christmas Carol and The Fourth Kind topped the box office chart this weekend, all OscarWatchers’ eyes were on Precious. After dominating this year’s film-festival prizes, the indie drama opened on Friday to very strong reviews, resulting in an 85 grade from Rotten Tomatoes. EW’s Owen Gleiberman rated […]
VIA: AJC.com The path to victory for Atlanta’s next mayor is clear, even if the candidates don’t want to say it. It’s about race. If Tuesday top vote-getter Mary Norwood, a white woman, can hold onto her strong support from white voters, and she draws away a respectable minority of black voters as she did […]
VIA: Entertainment Weekly WARNING: SPOILER ALERT Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from. The title character of “Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire” is a hushed, damaged, morbidly obese 16-year-old African-American girl from […]
VIA: The Guardian She is a firebrand baptist preacher at the forefront of American black politics, whether speaking at the Democratic National Convention, at which Barack Obama was nominated as presidential candidate, or as one of those chosen to eulogize Michael Jackson at the singer’s star-studded memorial service. Now Bernice King, the youngest child of […]
VIA: CNN.com One year after the historic election of President Barack Obama, CNN, HLN and Essence Magazine are taking an unprecedented look at his impact on black men in America. Obama has urged black men to take responsibility for their lives and families and he’s called on all Americans to volunteer to help restore their […]
VIA: AJC.com A judge granted bond for a South Georgia man charged with attacking an Army reservist outside a Morrow Cracker Barrel. Troy Dale West Jr., 47, is now being held in the Clayton County jail on a $320,500 bond, Clayton District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said Tuesday. uperior Court Judge Geronda V. Carter spent […]
Possessing classic sounds of church-centered Gospel greats like The Clark Sisters, Clara Ward, and the Caravans-with an update, Rizen, comprised of Adriann and Aundrea Lewis, is an unbelievably explosive duo that is returning to the spotlight with the October 27th release of their third CD – FREE.
VIA: LiveDaily.com Gospel artists Mary Mary, Smokie Norful and Marvin Sapp are among the gospel artists that have been nominated for the 2009 Soul Train Awards. With four nods each, Beyonce, Maxwell and Decatur-native Keri Hilson lead the pack of nominees of the 2009 Soul Train Awards, which will be handed out next month. Grammy […]
VIA: AJC.com More women may have been sexually assaulted by a Rabun County couple, who established a religious cult on a remote compound in the north Georgia woods, investigators say. Self-proclaimed prophet Albert Tony Walker, 62, and his wife, Dalene, 50, at one time had 50 people living with them on a 17-acre tract of […]
VIA: AJC.com The white, split-level house sits in a middle-class Lawrenceville neighborhood, walking distance from an elementary school. “The only that was was missing, it didn’t have a picket fence,” Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said. Authorities said Thursday the house was a meth lab — one of the largest federal agents have ever […]