John Salley is a multifaceted, multi-talented individual.  He won four NBA Championships with three teams (LA Lakers, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls). He starred on TV shows from Best Damn Sports Show, Game On, Car Show, Basketball Wives and movies Bad Boys, Eddie, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Salley even worked for Radio One in Los Angeles.  […]

We have walked with Erica and Tina through a whole season of change. It now all boils down o the Granmy’s Will the ladies make…

According to Nielsen data, African-Americans watch 40% more hours of television per month than the general population. Despite being one of TV’s most important audiences,…

Want to know the way to gauge how great a show is? Break it down by episodes. Take The Cosby Show for instance: For those who watched the series through it’s eight seasons, the debate is never whether or not the show was good, it’s which episode was the best. Ask as many people possible […]

Last week we opened the voting for our Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition.  Yesterday voting closed for round 1 and we’re down from 64 shows to 32. Based on the seeding of the editorial team we didn’t see any upset loses although we were surprised to see the short-lived 90’s sitcom “Thea” beat out the […]

The HBCU Network, a “24/7,” 365 days a year sports, “edutainment” and lifestyle network dedicated to the 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) across the United States, will launch in 2011, it was announced today by holding company C3 Media, LLC.  Designed to fill a void in the cable industry, the channel will be […]

According to http://www.eurweb.com Oprah has spoken. Below is her statement as to why she’s decided to end her daily show and move on to the next phase of her career and life: “So here we are, halfway through the season 24. And it still means as much to me to spend an hour everyday with […]

According to BlackGospel.com, Ann Nesby, the two-time Grammy winner, and former lead singer to the Sounds of Blackness, is readying the release of her latest musical offering, “Ann Nesby’s A Soulful Christmas” for the 2009 holiday season. In 1996 Nesby left Sounds of Blackness with the help of super-producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to release […]

Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Lionsgate have partnered to develop “Will You Be My Black Friend,” a film – to star Chris Rock – based on a Nov. 2008 GQ magazine article of the same name. The article chronicled GQ senior correspondent Devin Friedman’s unorthodox and admittedly self-conscious quest to make “black friends.” “The cinematic […]