Month: January 2013

TOY MAKERS CEASE PRODUCTION OF ‘DJANGO UNCHAINED’ “ACTION FIGURES” AFTER BACKLASH

January 19, 2013

Well.. well… It looks like toy makers and the Weinsteins have bowed down to pressure from civil rights activists and ceased production of the controversial slave dolls of characters from Quentin Tarantino’s hit spaghetti western/blaxploitation film Django Unchained. Django Unchained tells the tale of a former slave (Django) who travels across  America to find his wife (Broomhilda), and is desperate to free her from slavery at the hands of an evil  plantation owner. The dolls are no longer being sold on Amazon.com, who were selling figures representing the black slaves Django (Jamie Foxx), Broomhilda […]

FILM TRAILER: THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY

January 18, 2013

The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey. …. Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.[1] Robinson broke the baseball colour line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the […]

MUSIC WORLD NEWSFLASH: BEYONCE WANTS US TO KNOW… SHE “MAKES LOVE” TO HER HUSBAND

January 17, 2013

Mrs Privacy aka Beyonce Knowles Carter is in a sharing mood folks! In a new interview with GQ the singer who is desperate to sound interesting these days tells the magazine that when she is scared she often listens to  Make Love To Me, by Rick James, before going to make love to her husband rapper  Jay-Z. ‘If I’m scared, be scared, allow  it, release it, move on. I think I need to go listen to ‘Make Love to Me’ and  make love to […]

TV NETWORK CANCELS RAPPER’S ‘ALL MY BABIES’ MAMAS’ “REALITY” SHOW DUE TO PUBLIC PRESSURE / RAPPER URGES NETWORK TO ‘GIVE THE SHOW A CHANCE’

January 17, 2013

Last month it was reported that the US TV network Oxygen Media was set to air a new “reality” show titled ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’ featuring Atlanta rap artist Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker), his 11 children and their 10 different mothers. …. What a disgrace…. Thankfully this low brow nonsense has been shut down after thousands (37,000) signed an online petition calling for Oxygen to cancel the show after the trailer hit the Internet. The Parents Television Council also called the show’s concept “grotesquely  irresponsible and exploitive” and pledged to contact advertisers of the show if  […]

UK NEWS: HELICOPTER CRASHES INTO CRANE IN LONDON, PILOT NAMED

January 16, 2013

Via The Daily Mail The pilot who crashed his helicopter into a  newly-built tower in central London, killing himself and a second person on the  street below, was today named as experienced aviator Pete Barnes. He had requested to divert via Heathrow air traffic control and land at Battersea Heliport,  due to bad weather conditions, when the  helicopter hit a construction crane at the top of the tower near Vauxhall Bridge  at 8am. Mr Barnes, 50,  who flew a helicopter for James […]

UK THEATRE: ONE MONKEY DON’T STOP NO SHOW (TRAILER)

January 15, 2013

In 1970s Philadelphia, the Harrisons are the most respectable middle-class Black family in the suburbs – until their young niece from the rural South turns their polite, Christian life on its head. The Cosby Show meets Restoration Comedy in this hilariously outrageous play about how hard we try to hide who we really are. CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.  

UK TV: CNN DOCUMENTARY (FULL) – WHO IS BLACK IN AMERICA?

January 15, 2013

CNN’s documentary ‘Who Is Black In America’ aired here yesterday. Check out the documentary in full below. What defines you? Maybe it’s the shade of your skin, the place you grew up, the accent in your words, the make up of your family, the gender you were born with, the intimate relationships you chose to have or your generation? Soledad O’Brien discusses her new documentary, “Who is black in America?” and its look at the issue of colour. … [from mark 3:00] […]

UK MUSIC NEWS: SO SOLID CREW ANNOUNCE REUNION TOUR

January 14, 2013

Groundbreaking early noughties group the So Solid Crew announced in a press conference this morning that their reunion tour will kick off on March 21 at the IndigO2 in London. Expect to see Megaman, Lisa Mafia, Romeo, Harvey, Asher D, and Oxide and Neutrino performing the hits. Tickets will go on sale on Friday January 18. Check out So Solid’s 2002 performance at the Brit Awards. … After all these years So Solid FINALLY get the go ahead to perform in their own country. Congratulations. I hope the tour […]

UK TV: CNN DOCUMENTARY – ‘WHO IS BLACK IN AMERICA?’

January 13, 2013

The documentary ‘Who Is Black In America’ originally aired on CNN on December 9th 2012. It will now air here in the UK tomorrow (January 14th) on CNN  at 2am and 10am. What defines you? Maybe it’s the shade of your skin, the place you grew up, the accent in your words, the make up of your family, the gender you were born with, the intimate relationships you chose to have or your generation? Soledad O’Brien discusses her new documentary, “Who is […]