Black billionaire of the day: Oprah Winfrey Net worth: $2.7 billion US Company: Harpo Professional: CEO Our black billionaire of the day is the indomitable Oprah Winfrey. The Queen of talk t.v. and network owner pulled through a very rough patch with her baby OWN. The Oprah Winfrey Network is up steadily in ratings, thanks
Wesley Snipes comeback movie was actually filmed and completed some 7 years ago. There will be many thinking the film’s a Django Unchained knockoff but that’s far from the truth. The movie was completed right around the time Wesley’s Tax issues with the US government started in 2007/2008. Uncle Sam wanted to make public examples
Aside from being one of the most beautiful creatures on planet earth; Liya Kebede is a model, actress, advocate, spokeswoman, mother of two and wife. That’s a lengthy resume for any one person and to think most of us still believe models have it easy. Liya Kebede is a President Obama supporter too; she campaigned
The curse of the Oscars is real make no mistake and once it has you not even Morpheus from the Matrix can come to your rescue. The cutest little girl alive and history making, Quvenzhané Wallis should be ecstatic she didn’t win. A scene from 2012’s nominated film Beast of the southern wild Even though
Patrice Motsepe with his wife Precious Networth: $2.66 Billion US Marital Status: Married (Precious Motsepe) Company: African Rainbow Minerals Ltd. Country of Citizenship: South Africa Patrice Motsepe wealth’s increasing despite the global economic downturn of 2008-2009. South Africa’s richest black man was not totally unaffected though; he was forced to halt investments into his home
Age: 22 Ethnicity: black and one third Korean Channel Iman is like a living breathing sculptured goddess. The American runway hottie is very in demand these days. Channel has her schedule filled with various business and philanthropic items. The model is a staunch President Obama Supporter. She campaigned with Actress, Vivica A. Fox and (mega
Lanisha Cole is one of the most beautiful models in the world. Here are but a few pictures of the model to start your days. She is also an avid and accomplished photographer, check out her website for more of her work http://www.lanishacole.com.
Quentin Tarantino considered Will Smith for the lead role in Django Unchained. Obviously he made the right choice by giving the choice part to Jamie Foxx instead. Tarantino’s brave pick of Jamie must have been difficult to explain to his movie’s investors. Logically, Smith should have been a shoe for the part. He‘s a two
Scene from the 2012 Oscar nominated movie Beast of the Southern wild. Black millionaires and billionaires should invest more aggressively into minority movies. Getting funds for socially conscious, independent films, featuring people from the black diasporas is phenomenally hard. Hollywood studios have no problems investing in comedies or dramas with major stars like Eddie Murphy
movies/2013/02/24/quvenzhané-wallis-could-make-history-again Only four other black women have won an Oscar Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg, Octavia Davis and Gone With the Wind’s, Hattie McDaniel. Quvenzhané Walli is an in demand young actress now. If she wins an award tonight at the Oscars, Walli will be youngest actress in it’s to history to win. At 9 years old,
If the richest country in history can have Debt ceiling; then shouldn’t the rest of us? We all know the infamous Debt ceiling fight in the US was very contentious; and everyone came away from the battle bloodied. The Debt ceiling, as it pertains to US economy, is an imposed borrowing limit, based on the
The American economy is still the biggest in the world, by a wide margin from its next competitor, China. The average yearly GDP (gross domestic product) is 14.5 trillion US dollars. To put that in perspective its next closest rivals put together don’t come close in wealth. The US have the most billionaires and millionaires
In a 2011 documentary on US financial news channel, CNBC, IRS agents admitted to snooping US citizens’ Facebook pages. The CNBC piece was on tax cheats – a group that’s increased by some 40% since 2008. Facebook alone now have more than one billion registered users on its site. That’s one sixth of all human
Don Cheadle’s television gamble is a winner. The talented movie actor’s Showtime drama/comedy, House of lies, is a hit. The Hotel Rwanda star is one of many A-list stars taking their chances with t.v. shows. Series likes Cheadle’s and AMC’s The Walking dead are pushing into territories big network corporations can’t go. The very first
Jay-z should be the artist selected to do the next James Bond theme song. Not only because a rapper hasn’t done a Bond song but because the legendary New York poet’s got swagger. Jay has impacted modern culture like no other artist alive. The guy’s retired like twice from music but each of his comeback
Rihanna’s steamy video for the single, Stay, picks up an astounding 30 million views on YouTube – in a week. Stay is the third single from her 7th studio album, 2012’s, Unapologetic. The video and song features up and coming indie artist Mikky Ekko. They both performed the song at this year’s Grammy awards. Fans
Afra Raymond talks the TED conference audience about the massive oil money corruption taking place in his native country Trinidad and Tobago. His talk focused on the corruption in the oil sector in his country. According to the TED site… Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil. But in 1982,
Illegal movie sharing isn’t hurting Hollywood as most movie insiders would have you believe. On the contrary illegal file sharing sites can introduce young black actors to a wider audience. The MPAA and RIAA have been lamenting lost revenues from P2P technologies. No doubt, illegally sharing movie files online is taking massive profits from studios.
First there was one, Oprah Winfrey. For a long time the only female, black billionaire in the whole world. More precisely, Lady O was actually one of the first acknowledged black billionaires alive. Today, the brilliant Ms Winfrey is America’s only black billionaire. A shameful proof of the country’s lingering baggage it’s long abolished black
We’re sure Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t happy a piece of space rock exploded over Russia a few days ago – but somewhere deep inside the rock star astrophysicist, he may have said, ‘told ya so’. Tyson, for years have been sermonizing the need for increased budget funding for NASA. A passionate speaker, it’s as if,
President Obama’s minting more millionaires and billionaires than any US leader in recent memory. Since the record fall of the financial markets under George W. Bush – which also continued for a few months into Obama’s first term – the rich got richer. Most gains from investments are taxed at a precipitously smaller rate than
The world’s newest billionaire gets no love from Forbes magazine. In an article titled, “Isabel Dos Santos, Daughter Of Angola’s President, Is Africa’s First Woman Billionaire” – Forbes formally introduced us to, Isabel Dos Santos from Angola. Forbes, the foremost authority on wealth, albeit personal or commercial – thoroughly vetted Santos in their story. The
Isabel Dos Santos is the sexiest billionaire in the world. Let’s face it, most billionaires look like the nerd king, Bill Gates. Then there’s President Obama’s friend, the totally unsexy, hairy, Warren Buffet. When the world got its first look at a – true – pretty billionaire, we all rejoiced. It is possible; becoming a
