The Baltimore Police Union is calling on state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby to throw out all charges against the officers involved in the Freddie Gray case. This comes after one of the six officers, Caesar Goodson Jr., was acquitted of all charges placed against him on Thursday. This is the second time that Mosby’s team has failed […]
Roland Martin took Fox News contributor Stacey Dash to task for her comments about BET and Black networks during Thursday’s edition of NewsOne Now. During an interview on Fox News, Dash said: “We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. If we don’t want segregation, then we need […]
President Obama will receive a budget and debt deal from Congress that serves as a financial blueprint for the next two years. The Senate voted…
This is the perfect response to the backlash the new Star Wars film has received for having a black actor in one of the leading roles.
Michael Jackson really wanted to be in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and the film’s director, George Lucas really considered him for the role. Ahmed Best (who…
The stars were out Wednesday night at the Avalon Hollywood for Ebony’s Power 100 Gala. The annual list and event honor Black achievement in various categories, like…
Billionaire couple Mellody Hobson and George Lucas recently gave a very generous donation to the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. According to sources, the…
Famed “Star Wars” creator George Lucas (pictured left) is a first-time Dad at age 69! He and new wife of only two months, Mellody Hobson (pictured),…
On Friday January 20, 2012 George Luca’s passion project, Red Tails, will finally be in theaters. After years of lobbying in Hollywood to get a feature film made about the Tuskegee Airmen, the director and producer financed the project with his own money. Where The Red Tails Worked And Played Overseas Tapping director Anthony Hemingway (“The […]
From: thegrio.com By Donovan X. Ramsey Director George Lucas talked with The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart Monday about the difficulty of getting his latest project, Red Tails to the big screen screen. Red Tails stars a virtually all-black cast. It tells the story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots from World War II. They were the first black pilots […]
Red Tails executive producer George Lucas had nothing but good intentions by getting this movie made, but he admits that he has unintentionally put Black filmmakers in jeopardy. He financed Red Tails with his own money because he could not get a studio in Hollywood to pick it up. Red Tails cost $58 million to […]
