The Obama Report

$32.5 million. That’s how much he raised in the second quarter. It far out paces his other Democratic rivals, notably Hillary who raised about $27 million. In the last several months, everyone I knew who talked about attending a political fund raiser was heading to an Obama event. In the past, [...]

Isiah Washington: I Don’t Say "Yessah, massa, sir"

“Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn’t speak like I’d just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime,” he says. “I had a person [...]

Taye Diggs On Why He Lost His Black Female Fan Base

“What [black women] were happy about was that [Mendes’ character in Hitch] wasn’t white; she was Latina,” Diggs explains when asked why Will Smith’s role in the film didn’t draw as much cultural ire as some of the choices he’s made on- and off-screen. “That’s what they were happy about, if we’re gonna be real. [...]

Quote of the Day

For the son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.
Luke 9:56