The Activist vs. The Educator! Rev. Al Sharpton and scholar/bestselling author Dr. Cornel West got into a heated debate over President Barack Obama’s duties and policies during a tense appearance on MSNBC’s The Black Agenda program.
Do you still plan on voting “Obama for Change” in 2012?
When President Barack Obama became the first African-American elected to The White House in Nov. 2008,
hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs — along with much of the rest of The Hip-Hop World — was one of the former senator’s strongest supporters. The Bad Boy mogul even helped spearhead the “Rock the Vote” campaign. But more than two years later, as the nation continues to fight crippling unemployment, stalled healthcare legislation, and a economic recession, Diddy’s giving the Commander-in-Chief a tough assessment.
Uh-oh. Someone’s pissed off the employers! NFL star Chad Ochocinco and Basketball Wives personality Evelyn Lozada — two of VH1′s biggest reality stars — are dating one another and according to TMZ.com, VH1 is none too pleased with the romance.
We hear the network is peeved that Chad’s Tweeting about his relationship with Evelyn while he’s still the star of his currently airing reality dating show — The Ultimate Catch. The network is upset because of the “spoiler” that Ochocinco obviously doesn’t end up with any of the ladies on the show.
Noted MSNBC correspondent Chris Matthews has come under fire after he made a racially-insensitive remark about President Barack Obama following the Commander-In-Chief’s first State of the Union address to the nation on Wednesday.
Oh boy….controversy’s a’comin….
“I ain’t gonna lie – if God said I could pick one person to be my father, I’d want to be Sean Combs Obama. That’s how dope he is. I hope he reads this interview and adopts me. I wouldn’t even have to be in the will. I got my own money!” Diddy on President Obama, Playboy Magazine Jan/Feb 2010
R&B legend Janet Jackson has lashed out against detractors who say President Barack Obama has failed miserably in his attempt to govern the nation during his time in office.
“I think people are giving him really such a hard time,” Janet said in an interview with Times of London over the weekend. “Everyone wants everything to turn around immediately. It took us how many years to get to this point?” Janet continued. “People say, ‘His first 100 days in office, what has he done?’ You can’t do that to the man. It’s not going to happen tomorrow. It’s going to take us time to get out of it.”
Jennifer Hudson is headed to the White House, The Washington Post revealed Monday afternoon.
The new mom — who gave birth to her first child a baby boy named David Daniel Jr. last August — will sing for President and Mrs. Obama and their guests at a state dinner in Washington Tuesday night. The Oscar and Grammy-winning star performed the National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, when then-Senator Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president.
President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, also citing the president’s outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
The committee said it attached particular emphasis on the President’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
The oldest son of controversial congressman Joe Wilson ahd defended his father against a claim by former President Jimmy Carter that the congressman’s outburst during a speech by President Barack Obama was “based on racism.”
“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said at a town hall at his presidential center in Atlanta Tuesday. “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
It’s a claim those close to Wilson vehemently deny.
“There is not a racist bone in my dad’s body,” said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general in South Carolina. “He doesn’t even laugh at distasteful jokes. I won’t comment on former President Carter, because I don’t know President Carter. But I know my dad, and it’s just not in him.”
“It’s unfortunate people make that jump. People can disagree — and appropriately disagree — on issues of substance, but when they make the jump to race it’s absolutely ludicrous. My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.”
The President of The United States has been caught on tape lighting into the hip-hop star Kanye West. TMZ just obtained audio of President Barack Obama referring to Kanye West as “jackass” following the rapper’s infamous stage-storming during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards 2009 in New York City on Sunday night.
