From the Detroit News:Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, released from state prison this morning after serving 14 months, vowed to come back to Detroit to tell his story."Detroit, I will return to speak frankly with you about this experie…

From AlterNet:The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs. The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year…

From The State:Nobody can remember seeing Matthew Perry angry. Determined? Always. Fearless? No question. Forceful and firm? Without a doubt. Kind, compassionate and respectful? Without fail. But never angry. Never bitter. Perry's remarkable te…

From the Atlantic:The mob, members of an outlawed gang, blindfolded Walter Odondi with a strip of cloth and steered him through the narrow alleys of Nairobi's Kibera slum, slapping him with the flat sides of their machetes as they went. They frog…

From the Washington Post:A group of young black professionals in Anacostia has gathered over spinach-strawberry salad and white wine, when the conversation turns, as if often does, to what they call the "G-word": gentrification. "I used to thi…

From CBS News:A daughter of Malcolm X has been sentenced to five years of probation for stealing the identity of an elderly family friend to run up big credit card bills. Prosecutors say Malikah Shabazz (shuh-BAHZ') made $55,000 in illegal purc…

From the Creosote Journal:There are few external markers to show you what David Hilliard knows about certain places in Oakland. He knows where to find the bullet holes that still pockmark a house, puncture a fence railing. As Hilliard tells it,…

From the Boston Globe:One of the worst droughts in a century, compounded by high food prices and unremitting political strife, is spawning an immense humanitarian crisis on the Horn of Africa. Thousands of Somalis are fleeing their homeland each…

From the Gothamist:Flatiron bar and lounge 230 Fifth (you may recall its rooftop bar as the host of Kobayashi's controversial solo hotdog eating contest on July 4) is at the center of a $500 million racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a black…

From WAMU.org:The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial won't be unveiled for another month, but one group had the chance to get a sneak peek at it yesterday.Read more here. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Over the course of two hours tonight, 42 became...14?The fans will start voting for their top-24 favorites on American Idol next week, but the judges have to cut the competition in half...

Is anything worse than being bitch-slapped by Jeff Probst?By the looks of the miserable tribe gathered at Survivor: One World's second Tribal Council tonight, the answer is...

Which Glee kids will still be famous when the show ends? —Corinne Huntley, via FacebookNow, I cannot predict the fate of Miss Quinn Fabray following her smashing...

Don't mess with Aretha Franklin, people.Even after the music legend explained her absence at Whitney Houston's funeral, many media outlets continued to speculate why Franklin...

Well, what do you know? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences doesn't want Sacha Baron Cohen showing up at the Oscars dressed as a nightmarish hybrid of Moammar Gadhafi and Idi...

Kim Kardashian has one less story floating around to worry about.The E! star is "very happy to announce that she has reached a settlement of her claims against Jonathan Jaxson,"...

Really?!Don't get us wrong—we love Adele (and would let her talk for as long as she wants), and judging by her recent six Grammy wins, the world seems to love her,...

It sounds like Elton John's hope for Justin Timberlake to play him in his biopic is more than just wishful thinking these days.Sir Elton's husband, David Furnish, tells me the...

Who feels like going for a swim?!Victoria's Secret has entrusted its Gorgeous Swimwear line to model Candice Swanepoel this season—and with good reason, as evidenced by this...

A memoir, eh? So that means explicit details of Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie's outrageous relationship, right?!Well, according to Amazon's description, Thornton's...

Whitney Houston's private funeral service that was intended for just her family has been sullied by The National Enquirer as someone allegedly sold out and took a photo of her in the casket. She looks absolutely beautiful and peaceful and apparently…

“Abraham Lincoln, Vampires, Timur, Loud…that’s the kind of movie I want to see.” – Tim Burton. “{Lincoln} was the Batman of the 19th century…because he was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time.” – Timur Bekmambetov. We have a…

Men in Black III is a musical. As you can plainly see from the above pic, Will Smith is in the midst of filming one of the big Busby Berkeley –esque numbers at the heart of the film… Nah…I’m lying.  His character, J, is actually late for an…

Well…there’s a new international trailer for Peter Berg’s Battleship, but I have to say it’s no more illuminating that the others we’ve seen. I doubt anything I say will make a difference as to whether or not you’re interested in seeing i…

I meant to bring you this new UK trailer and the accompanying poster for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen way back on Valentine’s Day, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle. That I just got a ticket to a sneak preview jogged my memory, so I’m sharing…

As promised, here’s the first video blog from Skyfall director Sam Mendes. Skyfall is currently shooting in London with Daniel Craig making his third outing as James Bond and Dame Judi Dench returning as M. I actually wouldn’t call this a “vide…

The Academy Awards are the Royal Family of award shows so it's only fitting that Sacha Baron Cohen wants to attend Sunday night's Oscars as his latest character The Dictator THR is reporting exclusively. And as you can imagine, the powers-that-be are…

Justin Bieber turns 18 on March 1 and he is already working on his SECOND book (the first one being First Step 2 Forever: My Story) which is aptly titled 'Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started. The photographic book will be released some time in Sep…

I totally get that. Jennifer Aniston is currently starring in Wanderlust, the film that she and Justin Theroux allegedly fell in love, but she had met him five years prior on the set of Tropic Thunder and it definitely wasn't love at first sight: "I…

Jessie and the Toy Boys released the video to their song 'Runaway' in response to Proposition 8 being overturned in California. Says Jessie: When I wrote 'Runaway' with DJ Skeet Skeet, we wrote it from the perspective of our 13 year old selves, who f…