"black-cat" Articles & Blogs:
Scarlett Johansson to Be Black Widow in 'Iron Man 2'
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Actress will play spy in next installment of Marvel Comics franchisePost | Today 9:35 am
Actress Scarlett Johansson will don a skintight black outfit when she plays Black Widow in the forthcoming "Iron Man" sequel.
Rumor had it that Johans...[Read on] |
Celebrating Black Women Writers and Artists for Black History Month
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The Frisky has an awesome series of images and stories about black women writers and artists, that are not as often heard of, including Ntozake Shange, Judith Jamison, and my very favorite Zora Neale Hurston.
I recently re-read Their Eyes Were Watching...[Read on] |
How Kick-Ass Would A Harriet Tubman Barbie Be?
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Multi-media artist, Pierre Bennu, has released the second piece in a three-series installment of commercials for a hypothetical "Black Moses Barbie" toy. The commercials are an extremely clever and funny tribute to the legacy of Harriet Tubman and o...[Read on] |
Sojourner Truth honored in the Capitol
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Today Congress will unveil a new bust of Sojourner Truth in the U.S. Capitol. She's the first black woman to be honored there. This is a far cry from the last time Congress proposed "honoring" a black woman, Melissa Harris Lacewell writes:
It is import...[Read on] |
'Precious' Pushes Past Controversy to Oscar Night
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Not since the film version of "The Color Purple" came out 15 years ago have black women had so much at stake at the Academy Awards.
"The Color Purple"--based on a book of the same name by Alice Walker about sisterhood a...[Read on] |
Fashion Face-Off: "It" Girls at Chanel
| Every Friday VF.com pores through the crème de la crème of party pictures to find two contenders for the best outfit of the week. Tell us your favorite in our Fashion Face-Off. New York Fashion Week began in earnest last night at the opening...[Read on] |
Tangled and The Black Swan Kick Box Office Butt
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Tangled overtook Harry Potter at the box office this weekend on its second weekend out and is close to making $100 million in just two weeks.
On the one hand its great that a woman centric film (ok, a princess centric film) is doing so great but it wil...[Read on] |
Does Best Buy Own the Word “Geek”?
| Electronics giant Best Buy issued a cease-and-desist letter to a Web site, Newegg.com, that was encouraging users to “Geek On.” Best Buy offers the services of a team of uniformed tech savants, known as the Geek Squad, who will assist customers in set...[Read on] |
Interview with Sandra Laing - Real life subject of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Skin is the heartbreaking true story of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo) as a woman with black skin born to white parents in apartheid S. Africa. She is a white girl who looked black. As a young girl she rea...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak hearts The Black Keys
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You would probably never guess it by looking at them, but blues rock band The Black Keys are subtly ushering in a new age of musical genius.The seemingly nondescript pair, never wearing much more than their own jeans and Converse in videos, effortlessly b...[Read on] |
Gaultier Women Box in Corsets During Fashion Week
| All I can do is stutter, and periodically I break into uncontrolled laughter that sounds like hooting. I did a quick screenshot so you can hoot too.
When I first saw the pictures from Jean Paul Gaultier’s runway show and realized he’d done the entire...[Read on] |
Rihanna Gets "Loud" on Her New Album
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About three years ago, when Rihanna’s pivotal third album Good Girl Gone Bad was released, Jay-Z dubbed her the Black Madonna. It seemed ridiculous at the time, but considering Rihanna’s reinvention of herself with every work that followed, Ja...[Read on] |
Cinema Verite takes on An American Family
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Before The Real World, Horrible Housewives or Jersey Shore Jerks, there was An American Family. Back in the early 70’s, the idea of reality TV was born when a documentary filmmaker decided to ask the Loud family from Santa Barbara California, if he ...[Read on] |
Race and Film: The Release of Skin
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Sandra Laing and Sophie Okonedo
Interesting story out of England about how director Anthony Fabian is resorting to guerrilla type outreach tactics to raise awareness and get an audience to see his new film Skin starring Oscar nominated actress Sophie Oko...[Read on] |
Animators, It's Time for a Female Heroine--No Princesses Please!
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Linda Holmes, over at NPR, writes a moving letter about her fervent hope that Pixar can take it's unparalleled talent and use it to create a true female heroine. An excerpt:
Of the ten movies you've released so far, ten of them have central characters wh...[Read on] |
Toronto International Film Festival: “The Town” of Classy, Awards-Season Films
| Chris Cooper in The Town. � 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures. Every year, after a scorched summer that denies the parched cineaste’s thirst for Film with a capital “F” (not to be confused with “Content,” which is wha...[Read on] |
The Dame Got Game: Helen Mirren Dedicates Role in The Tempest to Girl Power
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You know who doesn't need eye of newt, ghoulish eyeballs or a big black cauldron to cast a spell on the silver screen? If you answered Helen Mirren, you are right as rain. Check out this teaser of a trailer starring our very first cover d...[Read on] |
Emma Stone on Dropping Out of High School, Adjusting to Fame, and Her Hardest Hollywood Moment Yet
| Photo by Patrick Demarchelier.New York, N.Y.—“I micro-manage,” Emma Stone tells Vanity Fair writer Alexandra Wolfe. “I think I’m a Type A personality who’s trying to convince herself she’s Type B,” the actress says, admitting that she stil...[Read on] |
The extraordinary benefits of tea
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From England to China to Morocco to America, tea has been around since ancient times. There are both caffeinated and non-caffeinated teas, as there are ones that are known for their specific healing effects.Tea is broken down into four types: green, whi...[Read on] |
How boxing is better than 11 other sports and hobbies
| Boxing is like playing underwater chess in a swimming pool filled with sharks. You have to keep moving, it’s hard to concentrate, and you feel like you just can’t get enough air.
But I love it anyway, and whenever someone asks me why I can’t take u...[Read on] |
Black History Month – Honoring Female Athletes
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Over the years, there have been many great black athletes. This month, to celebrate Black History Month, we’d like to honor some of the women who have contributed to the soul of sports.
Pioneers
Althea Gibson was a pioneer in both amateur tennis and pr...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
U.S. Open players step up the fashion game
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The U.S. Open tennis tournament kicks off next week, and the competition is going to be fierce— both on the court and on the fashion front.
Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are collaborating with Nike on their respective clothing lines, and this yea...[Read on] |
Sharapova partners with TAG Heuer on sunglass collection
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Tennis star Maria Sharapova is internationally known for her flawless tennis swing and impeccable sense of style, on and off the tennis court. Now TAG Heuer Eyewear and Sharapova have collaborated to design a new collection of sunglasses that deliver bo...[Read on] |
Cannes Watch: Jury Head Isabelle Huppert
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Actress Isabelle Huppert is the only the third woman to head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival which kicked off yesterday.
Those before her include Sophia Loren and Liv Ullmann.
It is interesting to note that there has never been a black person or As...[Read on] |
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