MEDIA WATCH, News

PBS isn’t pleased with the way producers for their show, Finding Your Roots handled the Ben Affleck situation. The A-list actor admitted he was “embarrassed” to learn a distant relative was a slave master and did everything in his power to make sure that particular segment of the episode didn’t crack daylight.

News

Much controversy has surrounded Ben Affleck’s recent appearance on the PBS ancestral show Finding Your Roots and the new Batman is finally coming clean.

Nas, News, Video

Over the summer, veteran rapper Nas appeared on a panel discussion in California to discuss his appearance on PBS’ Finding Your Roots program with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The episode aired last night, and the Queensbridge representative took in the jewels he learned with the Harvard professor.

Politics

Since the controversial arrest of the astute Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sgt. James Crowley has made friends with the spotlight. In his latest stint with the lights, camera and action, Crowley received a standing ovation from thousands of police officers Monday when he made the opening speech of a five-day Fraternal Order of […]

Politics

It has been the week’s apex of excitement, what’s to come of the highly anticipated Beer Bash? President Obama, Gates, the man scorned who was at home while Black, and Crowley, the racist Cambridge police officer who conned a man into his arrest. But what about Lucia Whalen? Who? The Portuguese-American woman who made the […]

Prominent Harvard Professor and black scholar, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested Thursday trying to get into his locked Massachusetts home. A woman alerted police that a man was trying to pry open the front door of a nearby house. According to The Associated Press, when police arrived they asked him to identify himself […]