by TRN Staff Writers, Actor/comedian Kevin Hart’s life of late has been playing out more like a movie with a plot of a sex scandal, sex tapes and extortion. Video has been swirling around news sites and the internet of Hart in a compromising position with a woman. One of the first news sites to […]
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by TRN Staff Writers, Serena Shares Baby Pics with Fans ‘Motherhood is exhausting’ could have been the caption in one of the first photos tennis great Serena Williams shared with the world of her newborn daughter. The superstar mom gave birth almost two weeks ago to her 6lb-14ounce bundle of joy. Looks like from […]
by G. Brown Jemele Hill is use to calling things the way she sees them. Hill is one of the anchors on ESPN’s “SC6” with Michael Smith(another person who speaks it like he sees it). But it’s not what Hill said on air that’s bringing on heat from the White House, it’s what she tweeted… […]
by G. Brown Hollywood like fashion, history and life circumstances seems to flow in a perpetual metonic cycle where genres and trends repeat themselves every 20 years or so. The current trend for Black actors, directors and writers seems to be race relations. Chadwick Boseman is starring in the title role of powerful biopic about […]
by TRN Writers, Janet Jackson Takes on the “State of the World” in New World The last time Janet Jackson hit the stage for a live concert, Obama was still President, White supremacist weren’t boldly prancing in the light of day, health care for millions wasn’t in jeopardy and North Korea wasn’t threatening WWIII. In […]
by G. Brown Defensive end for the Seahawks Michael Bennett had no defense when when he says a Las Vegas police officer threatened his life. Bennett says he was in Las Vegas for the recent Mayweather-McGregor match up and after the fight was headed back to his hotel when he heard gunshots. Bennett says he […]
by G. Brown “Born in the USA”…it’s more than an 80’s rock anthem. While some thought it a song about American privilege and exceptionalism, Bruce Springsteen’s hit record wasn’t about American pride as much as it was about America’s shame of big government, big military and the way some people are disregarded as nothing more […]
by TRN Staff Writers, Jamie Foxx Joins Benefit Concert for Hurricane Harvey Victims Singer, actor Jamie Foxx is joins team up to help his fellow Texans after one of the worst catastrophes to hit the state in years. He is one of the performers taking part in a live event this month to raise money […]
by G. Brown The horrors of Hurricane Harvey are becoming devastatingly clearer with each drop of rain. Thirty people feared dead as of this writing, another 35-thousand people forced from their homes by rising waters. And the worst is far from over… early Wednesday morning, Harvey hit landfall for a second time promising more devastation […]
by G. Brown He burst onto the scene in the 60s during one of the most turbulent times in American history and still made us laugh at our troubles. Civil Rights Activist, author, comedian Dick Gregory died of heart failure Saturday in a Washington D.C. hospital where he had been admitted a week earlier […]
by G. Brown, These are the times that try Black men and women’s soul—if we can paraphrase Thomas Paine’s words from 1776. Paine wrote those words as the opening statements in his pamphlets “The American Crisis”…almost 250 years later, that title couldn’t be more relevant. Since last week’s deadly Charlottesville Virginia protest by White supremacists […]
by G. Brown It’s been a rough couple of weeks…HELL, make that a rough few months. Seven even months to be exact. The current White House has created more drama than fake President Francis Underwood on Netflix’s “House of Cards”—and he’s a murderer! In just the last two weeks we’ve watched Trump play a dangerous […]
by TRN Staff Writers The magazine that keeps tabs on everybody’s money has come up with its annual list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. Funny thing about that list…it looks a lot like the previous year’s list, which looked a lot like the list the year before that, which look…well you get the gist. […]
by G. Brown The Confederate flag, Robert E. Lee statues, relics of the civil war guard the entries to court houses, municipal offices and parks throughout the country but especially in the south. According to the Southern Law Poverty Center there are an estimated 1503 of these monuments that dot landscapes across the U.S. To […]
by TRN Staff Writer Athletes pretty much provoke the same celebrity response as actors and singers. People think their lives are cush and perfect because of all the media attention and the millions they earn for starring in movies, singing or playing ball. But the same money that can make their lives a dream can […]
by TRN Staff Writers, Social media response to Charlottesville Virginia was swift and merciless. Stars like Zendaya, Jeffrey Wright, Mahershala Ali and others raised their voices to speak out on the racism that was unfolding. While Hollywood always tries to weigh in on political and social issues, sometimes it misses the mark as […]
by G. Brown There’s an old joke in newsroom about burying the lead which means a story is poorly crafted to the point where the most important fact of the story is buried at the end. Like the story about R&B singer Usher being sued by three people who allege the singer engaged in sexual […]
by G. Brown JayZ’s recently released video “Moonlight” gives us a meta moment on the issue of race and cultural appropriation. Since it’s Tidal release last week, “Moonlight” has been burning up some PR and social media circles, not so much for the sound, but for the style. And for a crash course in TV […]