The blogosphere is buzzing with news that Academy award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o’s highly touted 2015 Oscar gown has been stolen from a hotel. The Calvin Klein gown made entirely of pearls (6,000) and valued at $...
Kevin O’Brien of the Seattle Sun-Times is reporting that an alleged video of Dallas Cowboys star Dez Bryant engaging in “Ray Rice-worthy” behavior is set to be released today or tomorrow. O’Brien says that ...
Writing for The Root, the Burton Wire’s founder and editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. caught up with Terrence Howard, star of Fox’s Empire at SCAD Atlanta’s aTVfest to talk about why he decided to return to TV, w...
Writing for Al Jazeera, Richard Nield reports that Malawi is suffering a humanitarian emergency and the impact of the record floods will be felt for months, if not years. Neild writes: “More than a million people have been a...
Alexia Fernández Campbell and Mauro Whiteman are reporting for the National Journal that Piney Woods Country Life School, the nation’s largest historically black boarding school, sends 97 percent of its students to college. ...
Caribbean 360 is reporting that 20 people were killed and 46 injured in a parade in Port-au-Prince last week. The float, sponsored by Haitian hip-hop group Barikad Crew, was packed with people. The float came into contact with a p...
Robbie Couch of the Huffington Post is reporting that radio stations in Sierra Leone are broadcasting lessons to children in response to the halt in schooling due to the Ebola breakout in 2014. Couch writes: “Classrooms are ...
The name Mike WiLL Made-It is music’s most fitting double entendre. The highly sought-after producer’s trunk-rattling tracks typically open with a megaphone echo-like drop announcing his imprint, Ear Drummers. Another seductive, r...
At the 87th Academy Awards, John Legend and Common won the Best Song award for ‘Glory’ for the film Selma. There has been much ado about something since the critically-acclaimed film Selma was left out of the Best Dire...
Writing for The Root, the Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. reviews the new PBS documentary on legendary playwright August Wilson. American Masters—August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand...
