With President Barack Obama sworn in, it’s time to return to a more pressing matter: The bitter in-house dispute between Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and half of black America. One would think those long-simmering tensions would begin subsiding now that the first black president’s final term is freshly secured. Yet the very public debate over [...]
Hollywood Reacts in Wake of Newtown School Shootings
December 19, 2012 | Posted by
Hollywood has been scrambling in response to the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last Friday. Glitzy movie premieres have been canceled, television schedules have been upended, and stars have taken to Twitter and other platforms to debate gun control laws. From David Letterman’s fiery monologue about the school murders to Paramount’s [...]
Cornel West Calls Al Sharpton, Harris-Perry Sellouts
November 13, 2012 | Posted by
The war of words between Cornel West and the pro-Obama black activists has heated up once again after West criticize President Obama, MSNBC anchors Rev. Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry and professor Michael Eric Dyson, implying that the later three are sell-outs for their uncritical support of the president. West made his comments during an [...]
Tavis Smiley’s ‘America I AM’: The 500-year Backstory to Barack Obama
July 2, 2012 | Posted by
With “America I Am: The African American Imprint” making its home in Charlotte, N.C., while 35,000 visitors descend on the city for the Democratic National Convention in September, Tavis Smiley is sending a message. “It’s important for Americans to understand that there is a 400- to 500-year backstory to Barack Obama,” the radio and TV [...]
