Here she is…..Miss America 2010. Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron took the coveted crown during the live broadcast from Las Vegas and won a $50,000 scholarship in the process.
The beauty from Fredericksburg, Virginia wowed the audience and judges in her swimsuit and evening gown and then with her strong performance of Beyonce’s 2006 hit “Listen” from Dreamgirls soundtrack.
Caressa, 22, is a broadcast journalism student at Virginia Commonwealth University and hopes to become an anchor wants she completes her degree.
The 700′s Club Pat Robertson is under fire and at it again. The clueless Christian is feeling the wrath of Hell today after remarking that Tuesday’s 7.2 earthquake in Haiti is God’s vengeance upon the Haitians for making a deal with the devil to rid themselves of French leadership. Luckily, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has some choice words about that!
It’s a new decade, which means that the US Census Bureau is working hard at getting America’s more than 300 million residents to fill out a 10-question form that determines how the federal government distributes its money.
But there’s one question that is causing some controversy: The section that asks poll takers to identify their race. Here are a few of your options: “Black, African American or Negro”. While many young Blacks are infuriated by the use of the outdated term, the Census Bureau says they chose the word because a small percentage of older people of color still identify with it. The Grio reports that many older blacks preferred to be called “Negro.” “Some prefer it because of their complexion, whether they’re light-skinned or dark,” said Jeanne R. Stanley, a retiree in Richmond, Va. “Others still have a slave mentality. There are a lot of people who still have a color complex.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t let the racial hump in America bother me anymore. Call me what you want. As long as you don’t touch me, I won’t mace you
A good-natured community snowball fight organized over Twitter turned ugly on Saturday, when one renegade snowball hit a police detective’s Hummer. More than 300 Tweeters pelted fistfuls of the white stuff across a busy intersection as a Nor’Easter blanketed Washington, DC with more than a foot of snow. But now one was laughing when the officer jumped out his vehicle with his gun drawn!
That darn cancer has taken another beloved star: Actress Alaina Reed Hall passed away after a long battle with breast cancer last Thursday. She was 63.
Hall, best known for her roles on 227 and Sesame Street, has been very public about her ongoing battle with breast cancer. She participated in the documentary Breast Cancer Examined: An African-American Perspective, to commemorate 2009 National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and share her approach to fighting the disease.
Hall began her career in Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including Chicago and Hair, before being cast as Gordon’s little sister Olivia on Sesame Street in 1976. She left the show in 1988. Alaina later starred on the hit sitcom 227 as the sassy Rose Lee Holloway. She began a romance with her co-star Kevin Peter Hall; the 7’2″ actor who rose to fame in the 1987 film Harry and The Hendersons. The couple later married both on and off-screen. However, the fairy-tale romance was short-lived. Kevin died from complications of AIDS — which he contracted through a blood transfusion –in 1991.
Alaina Reed Hall is survived by her three children.
Another one bites the dust: In a sign of these rough economic times, Giant Magazine, owned by Radio One’s Interactive One subsidiary, has suspended its print publication and will now publish online only, The Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. The bi-monthly lifestyle magazine in has decided to move its content GIANTlife.com as part of its Interactive One division.
“The economic downturn has had a tremendous impact on print media and we had to make the decision to suspend printing the publication,” said Tom Newman, president of Interactive One in a statement. “Additionally we recognize the increase in demand for real time information and see this as an opportunity to leverage our existing robust online platform to better serve Giant consumers and advertisers through our interactive medium.”
With slugger Sammy Sosa’s appearance as the Dominican Casper still making headlines more than two weeks after the baseball legend’s startling appearance at the 2009 Latin Grammys, more people are examining the ideals that have made the skin lightening a multimillion dollar industry.
Uh-oh… Morehouse College, one of the nation’s oldest historically black institutions recently enacted a controversial ban oncross-dressing. Did we forget to mention that Morehouse — which boasts prestigious alumni like civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and director Spike Lee –just happens to reside in ole Atlanta, the gayest Black male city in America?
