Media Outlets Unite for #InTheBlack Spending Power Campaign

BET Networks, Radio One, TV One, and Tom Joyner’s Reach Media, along with the Steve Harvey Morning Show, Inner City Broadcasting and Stevie Wonder, the owner of L.A.’s urban AC 102.3 KJLH are all on board. In an environment in which many marketers expect their advertising budgets to decrease and some brands are shifting their […]

What Jay-Z and Kanye’s New Track “Otis” Taught Me

“Why do we love it so much even though for most listeners, there’s no tangible expression of these lyrics in our lives? It’s as if we’re paying people to tell us how awesome their lives are due to the money we’ve given to them because we want to hear them tell us how awesome their […]

>Tiger Woods Refuses to Talk and Issues a Statement

>So now Tiger refuses to talk to the police and issues a statement on his website on his single car accident. Accident? That was no accident, she meant that sh**. This of course is the hot topic on TV and radio this morning all across the country. (What about the Soul Train Awards? the who?) […]

>Dr. Tricia Rose at the State of the Black Union 2009

>In this segment from Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union 10th anniversary in Los Angeles, Dr. Tricia Rose talks about issues of commercial hip-hop, the economy, and urban culture along with explaining how they all affect one another. Dr. Rose’s sobering commentary describes the dangers of just representin’ in hip-hop. This representin’ idea is […]