Undercover Black Man

The late Gene Harris was a pianist who made swinging music for more than four decades. He cut a live album in London in 1996... but “Live i...

Been wondering about the other stuff Jesse Jackson said about Barack Obama during his “hot mic” fiasco last week? The stuff that Fox News ...

My good friend David Simon has a new miniseries premiering tonight on HBO – “Generation Kill.” It’s about the Iraq war. But I want to shar...

(If this ain’t a fetish, it oughta be. So hot! )

Last Friday night on KFI, my favorite L.A. talk-radio station, prominent black conservative Ward Connerly chatted with Joe Hicks , KFI’s to...

The song is called “Corporate Cannibal.” (Hat-tip: Ernest Hardy .)

Dammit, I can’t stop blogging about Black Kids . The more I see and hear, the more I like. Last November I pointed to this young Florida ba...

The childishness and vindictiveness that reigns among hardcore Hillary supporters at the No Quarter blog... it’s out of control. When they’...

“Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt done went nigga-baby crazy. Oh they just buying them little muhfuckas up like they souvenirs! Salt-pepper shak...

I promised to remind you, so here goes: Little Jackie , the new project fronted by Brooklyn hip chick Imani Coppola, will perform tonight o...

The Washington Post published the following correction last Friday: “A photo caption with a June 25 Sports article incorrectly identified a...

Jazz purists got angry and/or shed tears when trumpeter Donald Byrd – a world-class hard-bopper from the Art Blakey school– slid over into...

First, there was the Barack-Obama-as-“Curious-George” T-shirt . Then there was the Obama “sock monkey.” Now... this road sign. Follow this l...

The latest issue of Star has a cover feature called “Stars Without Makeup.” So if you wanna see a few zits on Katherine Heigl’s forehead or ...

Below is a clip from the upcoming CNN special “Black in America,” which I blogged about recently. Whoopi Goldberg talks about AIDS. “In th...

... premieres tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 8 p.m. (Eastern time). It’s called “Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence.” The series begin...

Why have I been posting so much about Zimbabwe ? One reason is purely dramatic. What’s been happening in Zimbabwe the past few months is one...

Speaking of Lofgren , he has a few FREE MP3s on offer at his website . He’s perhaps best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street B...