Constance McMillen Case Study

Constance McMillen Case Study by Nikky Raney In March of 2010 an 18-year-old named Constance McMillen from Itawamba County, Mississippi made headlines nationally when her high school refused to allow her to take a same-sex date to prom as well as not allowing her to wear a tuxedo. The school cancelled their prom, but organized … Read more

Occupy NFL? Steelers vs Ravens Caps NFL Sunday Where Visitors Win

Could it be that the whole Occupy Movement’s impacted the National Football League? Call it Occupy NFL. On this Sunday, the Steelers vs. Ravens game that saw the Ravens prevail 23 to 20, the 49ers, Bengals, Broncos, Dolphins, Falcons, Giants, Jets, and Packers all visited their opponents and came away with wins. If you consider … Read more

Kim Kardashian Conflicted

Kim Kardashian was engaged for 85 days and filed for divorce after a 72 day marriage, but TMZ is reporting that Kim is feeling conflicted. Since she is feeling conflicted she found it appropriate to fly to Minnesota, which is where her husband Kris Humphries is. TMZ reports: “Kris and Kim will be meeting with … Read more

Oakland’s Former Mayor Blasts Mayor Jean Quan On Occupy Oakland

Even though Elihu Harris hasn’t been the Mayor of Oakland since 1999 (and was Mayor between 1990 and 1999), he’s still a fixture in Oakland. Always willing to offer his points of view on various topics (even ones I elected not to include in our interview), Mayor Harris (or “Boss” as I still call him), … Read more

AMPAS News: Gil Cates Passes, Governors Award Series

In this sad news from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Gil Cates passes at 77 years old. Mr. Cates produced the Academy Awards 14 times, more than any other person. A popular figure in Hollywood and with the motion picture industry, Gil served with the Academy first in 1983 and through … Read more

Andy Rooney Dies: The First Vlogger Loved The Super Bowl

Sadly, Andy Rooney dies at 92, and so officially ends the life of one of CBS Television’s most popular figures, and good men. Many will point to what the Wall Street Journal calls the 60 Minutes commentator’s 1,000 segments “mini-essays” but that’s wrong – they were video blogs. Really Andy Rooney was the first video-blogger, … Read more

SF Mayor Ed Lee Joins U.S. Assistant Secretary For Health Today

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will join the U.S. Department of Health Services Assistant Secretary For Heath and Human Services Dr. Howard Koh today for a press conference to talk about a comprehensive national plan to address the viral hepatitis epidemic this space has blogged about before. Mayor Lee and Dr. Koh will also explain … Read more

Oakland Not On Fire, Fox News Lies About Occupy Oakland

Oakland is on fire! If you watch Fox News or ABC News or read the hyperbolic posts of Michelle Malkin, and don’t live in Oakland, you’d think just that: Oakland’s burning. But the truth is it’s all a big fat media lie. Michelle Malkin, too. This blogger just ended a phone conversation where Mom called … Read more

Occupy Oakland Strike Draws 100,000; Violence Caused By 100

Oakland’s Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan (a capable and politically smart leader in a tough position) got the Occupy Oakland General Strike crowd count massively wrong: it’s not 7,000, but 100,000. This blogger has been in Oakland since 1974. The largest crowd at Frank Ogama Plaza was for a speech by then-Senator, now President Barack … Read more

Occupy Oakland General Strike Underway, City Of Oakland Games

Ok, before I start on the presentation of an email from the folks at Occupy Oakland, and then my Tout Stream you can follow today, one question. Why the heck is the City of Oakland holding press conferences at the SAME TIMES the Occupy Oakland rallies are set for? Is this a game to draw … Read more

Frank McCourt Sells LA Dodgers; Team Not Worth $1 Billion

Let’s face it. With Frank McCourt as its owner, The LA Dodgers were a baseball organization on life support. Having ran the team into the ground, the man more known for his personal issues flooding the news cycle refused to do the honorable thing and stop fighting Major League Baseball, which took operations of The … Read more

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 30th Annual “Contemporary Documentaries”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ began its 30th Annual “Contemporary Documentaries”series on Wednesday, October 19 at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and it will continue through December 7. All the screenings have free admission. The movies will all be screened at the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy’s … Read more

Herman Cain Sexual Harassment? Donald Trump? Rick Perry Gay?

The allegations that GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain was involved in some sexual harassment investigation when he was head of the National Restaurant Association in “the 90s” reminds this blogger of the claims all over the blogsphere that Texas Governor Rick Perry is Gay, and how the main stream media handles the rumors – by … Read more

Justin Bieber Sings ‘Baby’ From Toothbrush – Really

You see the funniest things while standing in line at retails stores. In this case, it was during a quick trip to the Walgreens located near Lake Merritt here in Oakland, California. While standing in line to pay for items, there was this Justin Bieber Singing Toothbrush that caught the attention of two patrons behind … Read more

Dancing With The Stars: Hope Solo Beats David Arquette and 7 Live

Larry Beil of KGO-TV ABC Channel 7 has an anti=Hope Solo bias this blogger had to challenge. The daily anchor of several news programs on the local affiliate, Beil has a weekly ‘Dancing With The Stars Update’ segment that’s presented on 7 Live, their daily pop culture trends show. Larry bet against Hope Solo, and … Read more

Oakland News: Jesse LaGreca At Occupy Oakland; OPD Confused

A bit of catching up to do on Oakland News, so here we go. Occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland continues to “occupy” the collective minds of Oakland and much of America, just one week after Oakland’s Brutal Tuesday, where police and Occupy Oakland protestors clashed. The result were some injuries to protesters – one fatal and … Read more

CNN’s Solidad O’Brien Calls Out Michael Arrington On Black Entrepreneurs

At first this blogger was just going to leave the whole issue of TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington’s statement that he “Didn’t know any black entrepreneurs” alone at one blog post. But after a series of emails, a video follow-up, the one above, was in order. And to really hammer home the point that what Michael … Read more

Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries File For Divorce; Twitter Clue

More at Zennie62.com Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries file for divorce? Shocker! After just 72 days, or just over two months, social media maven and celebrity Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kris Humphries. According to TMZ.com, the reason the pair split was cited as “irreconcilable differences.” Kim wanted to continue living in Los Angeles, … Read more

Kim Kardashian Files For Divorce

Kim Kardashian has confirmed today that she will be filing for divorce against Kris Humphries. This is ridiculous. It was YESTERDAY that Kim’s Fairytale Wedding was playing on E! This marriage according to People Magazine only lasted 72 days and Ryan Seacrest weighs in: ” “I’ve spoken to her briefly and she says she’s sad … Read more

Cam Newton’s Problem: Carolina Panthers Defense

Let’s just get this out of the way: The Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton is the greatest NFL Rookie QB ever. Win or lose, the game he played against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday was just plain excellent. He was 22 of 35 for 290 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions. Newton’s Quaterback Rating was 117.6. … Read more

Dancing With The Stars: David Arquette Dissed Hope Solo On Letterman

After blogging about Ricki Lake, this blogger just happened to run across a video featuring actor and now Dancing With The Stars competitor David Arquette when he appeared on David Letterman in August to talk about his appearance on the show. The clip has a segment where David makes a comment about Hope that sounds … Read more

CNN, Michael Arrington, Black Entrepreneurs, and The Invisible Man

Last week, a bit of a row ensued when Tech Crunch Founder Michael Arrington appeared on a segment of a CNN special on black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and, under questioning by Soledad O’Brien, said “I don’t know a single black entrepreneur.” This blogger got wind of Michael’s comments because a friend, Marco Brown, a … Read more

Dancing With The Stars: Ricky Lake Horny, Hope Solo Ready

As Dancing With The Stars progresses in a fashion not unlike As The World Turns, we learn that Ricky Lake, with a new 20-pounds lighter body and great legs, is talking about how her sex life has picked up. In fact, the suddenly-horny actress and entertainer talked about it so much her words wound up … Read more

Occupy Oakland: The Oscar Grant / Frank Ogawa Plaza Issue

A friend of mine said something that made me think. While riding on BART, she complained yesterday that she was “sick and tired of protestors using Oscar Grant’s name to justify their actions,” and said that City Hall Plaza should be called Frank Ogawa Plaza – which, by the way, is the current name of … Read more

Halloween Saturday Night In SF Crowded Good Time

For some reason undoubtedly due to a nutty travel schedule, Halloween just plain caught this blogger by surprise. Now, the real date’s Monday, but the original plan was to dress up as a Sith Lord, complete with cape, and go out. Not happening. I just didn’t plan for it. Instead, eager to see both the … Read more

Stanford Football For Real, Beats USC In 3 OT Thriller

One look at the Google Trends shows “Stanford Football” as one of the top five search terms, and within that, at least as of this writing, the top three news results all from the website of The San Francisco Chronicle, and not one of them from this blogger (which will change once I work my … Read more

Daylight Savings Time 2011 Is Today… In The UK

The number one Google Trend search term is “daylight savings time 2011” and for the second consecutive day. The only explanation for this is many think today is the day that clocks are to be set back – as in “spring forward, fall back” – when it’s Sunday, November 6th that’s the day – in … Read more

Occupy Oakland: Many Views Of A Wild Week

Now that this first really wild and crazy Occupy Oakland week has come to a close, this space has rounded up the first set of video interviews of Oaklanders on the issue, and with more to come. The first video is the interview with friend and Oakland District Four Councilmember Libby Schaaf, which was made … Read more

Cal vs UCLA, Stanford at USC, Key Pac-12 Battles

Today, starting at 4PM PDT, we have Cal vs UCLA, then Stanford at USC at 5 PM and both are key Pac-12 battles of teams that really do have “storied histories” to mock that overused term for a moment. Cal comes to LA to play a rather injury-riddled UCLA team, with its coach Rick Neuheisel … Read more

Daylight Savings 2011: Will You Be Ready?

Ok, folks, here comes that one day sure to screw up your life for at least 24 hours, if not the entire week: Daylight Savings Time 2011. That’s the day, Sunday, November 6, 2011, when you have to set your clocks forward – not backward – one hour. (Remember, that’s one week from now.) That … Read more

St. Louis Cardinals Stun Texas Rangers, Win World Series

After looking like they were dead, two World Series Games down to the Texas Rangers, the St. Louis Cardinals came back to win World Series Game 7 in somewhat less dramatic fashion, 5 to 2. After trailing 2 to zip, the Cards tied the contest, then pulled ahead to win. Now, as the Dallas Morning … Read more

America’s Next Top Model: All Star Season

There have been about seven episodes of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 17 and this season is the All Star Season – meaning that the contestants are all former contestants who made it far, but didn’t win. The cast members who were notorious and who fans just loved, and that is probably why I actually … Read more

Microsoft and Google Secrets, and Blacks In Tech

It’s funny who you run into while traveling around the country, as this blogger does. In this case, I happened to sit next to an engaging and talkative man who works for Microsoft. He proceeded to tell me a lot about the company that Bill Gates built and threw in some fascinating Google info, too, … Read more

Michael Moore On Way To Occupy Oakland Rally Today

Famed activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore issued this Twitter tweet just 33 minutes ago, as of this writing: @MMFlint Michael Moore Leaving NYC, on my way to #OccupyOakland. Will stand with everyone there, mid-afternoon. #OWS 33 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet Reply Judging by the timing of the tweet, that he … Read more