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

Between PBS' Downton Abbey and the upcoming Great Gatsby movie, Hollywood's crushing hard on the 1920s.The fashion world is also on board. From drop-waist...

The Avengers bows down to no dictator, much less Cameron Diaz or Jennifer Lopez.Facing an onslaught of new competition, the superhero team-up easily won the weekend box-office for a...

Status update: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan in an intimate wedding at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Saturday.RELATED:...

There sure is a lot of community within the Community cast!Although NBC no longer wanted Community creator Dan Harmon as the sitcom's showrunner—it sure seems like the cast...

Kristin Cavallari has come a long way from the jean shorts and finger pointing she used to rock on Laguna Beach and The Hills. But her soon-to-be motherhood hasn't caused her to ditch her...

After clarifying to E! News just yesterday that she was fine and not rushed to the hospital after fainting during porn expo Exxxotica Expo in Miami, WWF star Chyna (Joan Marie Laurer) wasn't...

John Travolta's second masseur accuser will no longer be known simply as John Doe No. 2.The New York Daily News unearthed the man's identity recently, after its reporters...

Nick Stahl has resurfaced (virtually) following his disappearance more than a week ago. While The 32-year-old Terminator: Rise of the Machines star still hasn't reunited with...

Nature gets some of the credit for this colorful summer trend.Stars like Miley Cyrus and Lauren Conrad are embracing the warm weather while adding a pop of color to...

Dan Harmon has a little something to say about his departure from Community…and let's just say he doesn't consider his exit from the show a happy ending. Just a day...

In other news, we have new images from Christopher Nolan’s third and final film in his Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. There are a couple of posters, one of Catwoman and one of Batman. There’s also a Gotham City  “Wanted Poster”…

  After Gerard Butler did his bit for his new movie (which hasn’t been made yet) at the Millennium Films party, he headed down the road to the Hotel du Cap in Antibes to yet another A-list affair, the Gucci/Vanity Fair bash.  It was there that Mr…

I need someone to tell me what is going on in this pic. Are they about to come to blows right there on the red carpet?? Is Shia telling Tom his is cat is on the roof*? It looks both oddly inappropriate and strangely compelling. I’m not a huge Shia…

Okay, who wants more Gerard Butler? C’mon, I can’t be the only one with my hand in the air! (Cannes goes on for another week people, get used to it.) Looking a little tired after last night’s merriment, which went on til the wee hours (and who…

In today’s Prometheus news, we have a completely ridiculous promotional tool as well as a brilliant onem a poster that looks to contain a spoiler and not nearly enough Michael Fassbender and some new images from Sir Ridley Scott's in-depth intervie…

The Bondurant Brothers: Jack (Shia LaBeouf), Forest (Tom Hardy) and Howard (Jason Clarke) I guess I’ve unofficially declared this Tom Hardy Day here at I Need My Fix (I’m sure Fearless Leader won’t mind).  After the posters for Lawless, we now…

Charlize Theron along with costars Chris Hemsworth and Kristen Stewart sat down for one of Moviefone’s Unscripted Interview segments in promotion of their new film Snow White and the Huntsman (perhaps you’ve heard of it?) The questions themselves…

I have no idea why no one seemed to have these poster for John Hillcoat’s Lawless all together or all at once yesterday, but it doesn’t matter now since I found TOM HARDY, as well as GARY OLDMAN and even Jason Clarke who plays oldest Bondurant br…

That title works best if you think of it being whined at a high volume like Sally as she sits in the pumpkin patch after discovering she's missed out on "tricks or treats". Haitian Carnival Raised $1Million dollars last night for Paul Haggis’ Artis…