By Ernece B. Kelly Drama Critic Although Robert O’Hara’s new, multi-racial play, “Mankind” is hilarious while calling attention to numerous social ills–among them climate change, domestic surveillance and unconscionable money grabbing–it doesn’t settle down long or deep enough into its central idea to be altogether […]
By Kam Williams Senior Move Critic “12 Strong†Trevante Nemour Rhodes was born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana on February 10, 1990, but raised in Little Elm, Texas from the age of 10. After excelling in sports in high school, he earned a scholarship to the University […]
Compiled By Don Thomas The 33rd annual family celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Life and Legacy, sponsored by the Central Brooklyn Martin Luther King Commission, was held at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, on Saturday, January 13th. A total of 27 elementary, middle […]
By Leah Hobbs (TriceEdneyWire.com) “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to go back to the good old days. I don’t want to go back to separate and unequal,” Roslyn M. Brock, chairman emeritus of the national NAACP, told a crowd on Jan. […]
By Barbara Arnwine and John Nichols (TriceEdneyWire.com) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first speech at the Lincoln Memorial was not his celebrated 1963 address at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Six years earlier, when he was still a relative newcomer on the […]
By A. Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com) – When first hearing about TV-One’s cancellation of Roland Martin’s show for “budgetary” reasons, my immediate reaction was bull crap. I am convinced that his show was cancelled because some advertisers and some Trumpets were outraged because of Roland’s Afrocentric […]
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