Willie Moore Jr. Show
There is an elementary school in my neighborhood that has a tradition of placing quotes on a huge board outside on their lawn.Each Monday a new quote is there. No author. Just the quote. I, like many of my neighbors, have come to look forward to the quote of the week.Once I saw the man […]
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is not playing around with Donald Trump as she continues to be the face of the resistance against this new administration. At a recent event at Bus Boys & Poets in Washington D.C., the outspoken California representative enthusiastically told the crowd, “We’ve got to stop his ass!” Yaaasss! Of course, the audience […]
In their newest issue, Essence Magazine is celebrating the sistas of the resistance—and it’s seriously amazing! https://www.instagram.com/p/BS84lqsAa1G/?taken-by=essence&hl=en Rocking “Stay Woke” tee-shirts, this is one powerful array of women: writer/producer Shonda Rhimes, MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid, Women’s March co-chairs Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez. In addition, our favorite political commentator Angela Rye, Circle of Mothers […]
Karew Records marks the rise of “Hang On” (feat. Kierra Sheard) on the charts, with the single hitting #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart this week. The lead radio single from the hit album GEI LIVE, “Hang On” provides encouragement and comfort to inspire the spirit with Sheard and the choir’s vocals. “I’m super excited and grateful! To have […]
Don Cheadle will follow up last year’s Miles Davis biopic with a project that sheds light on another real life hero of cultural significance. The actor will star in and produce “Prince of Darkness,” a biopic of 19th Century black millionaire Jeremiah G. Hamilton, reports Variety. Steven Baigelman, who co-wrote the “Miles Ahead” screenplay with […]
Season 2 of Ava Duvernay’s OWN series Queen Sugar will premiere on June 20, while Season 1 will stream on Hulu beginning April 21, under a new deal announced Thursday by the streaming service and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. https://www.instagram.com/p/BS2MCwMBEAa/?taken-by=kofisiriboe&hl=en The show’s second season will launch with a two-night event, airing new episodes on […]
Over the years, we have all heard the stories of how many African-Americans and others are returning home to the South or moving there in search of a better life. The lure of sleepy neighborhoods, cheaper housing, safer schools, and an all-around better lifestyle that seems to elude larger cities, is what draws people to […]
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Folks are still dealing with the shocking news of the separation of Janet Jackson and her Muslim billionaire husband Wissam Al Mana just three months after the birth of their first child, a boy. The conventional wisdom is putting a lot of the blame on the fact that they finally realized they come from completely […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Three Black writers, including novelist Colson Whitehead for “The Underground Railroad,” have taken home Pulitzer Prizes this year. Whitehead’s celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah Winfrey […]
So, is she or is she not fired from Real Housewives of Atlanta? That’s the bottom line question folks are now asking about Phaedra Parks. We’re asking because as we reported earlier, a source told lovebscott.com that Parks did not receive an offer to return for another season on the show. “She got caught in […]
According to ABC News, Janet Jackson’s rep has confirmed that she and her billionaire husband Wissam Al Mana are separating three months after having their son early this year. According to Page Six, one source said the split is amicable and the couple will co-parent their son, but others said trouble “had been brewing” for awhile. A […]