Television
Science: NASA’s Weather Machine (Video)
September 2, 2017
NASA’s playing God! It’s making its own weather!
– Jeremy Clarkson
Wow. Sometimes (read: more often than you think) the byproducts of science and engineering as, or more, fascinating than the intended project. Case in point: NASA’s rocket booster testing in ‘nowhere, in the middle of nowhere’ Mississippi. The intent was to test some very expensive, very large, very VERY loud boosters. The byproducts – big billowing clouds RAIN clouds!
Seeding clouds for rain? Nah. That’s 20th Century maaaaan. NASA is making clouds… on the side… just because!
Posted in Environment, Science, Television, Videos | 
Tags: Artificial Clouds, BBC, BBC Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, NASA, NASA Makes Artificial Cloud, Top Gear, Weather Machine | 
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Neil deGrasse Tyson With Some “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” And A Word For Climate Science Deniers (Video)
September 1, 2017
Great talk. Plus: Neil deGrasse Tyson with the booooom statement of, like, the decade or something! To all the climate change deniers: How was it that we made all kinds of plans, and reacted with all kinds and fervor and enthusiasm, to the Eclipse [Across America] – a phenomenon predicted by science – but NOT even flinch or flitter at the very real, very scientifically-founded warnings of pending planet-wide doom due to climate change (global warming, whatever you wanna call it)? Is it because beach chairs will become useless for the beachfront after the ocean level rises? Maybe because you’ll need good galoshes to go anywhere downtown in NYC? C’mon son!
Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on why climate change is subject to political debate and examines the privilege of wondering about space in “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.”
– Comedy Central
Okay, they are probably not reading this post or watching The Daily Show on Comedy Central… So if you know a denier, please share this.
(Or share with the like-minded. I don’t mind having an ‘amen corner’ on this.)
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Book, Celebrity, Comedy, Environment, Politics, Science, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Climate Change, Climate Science, Eclipse, Eclipse Across America, Global Warming, Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Daily Show, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah | No Comments »
Black Men Trace Their Roots… Of Their Native American Heritage (Video)
August 31, 2017
You could get in a lot of trouble if you were caught ‘out of place’ or ‘talking out of turn’… Sound familiar, like familia? It should, especially for these gentlemen who have proven that they have ‘Indian in their blood’ (as my elders used to say). But this video is more about similarities in Native American and African American heritages. This is about linkages, bonds, relationships between our peoples. Set aside about a half-hour and get this knowledge!
On the next Another View, a history lesson on the Cheroenhaka-Nottoway Indian Tribe of Southampton County, Virginia – and how a man named Walter Ashby Plecker forever changed the relationship between Native Americans and African Americans in this part of Virginia.
– WHROTV
Posted in Activism, Call To Action, Education, Interview, Relationships, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: African Americans, Another View, Barbara Hamm Lee, Cheroenhaka, Cheroenhaka-Nottoway, Native Americans, Nottoway, Southampton County, Tribe, Virginia, Walter Ashby Plecker, WHROTV | 1 Comment »
Black Love: Flex Alexander & Shanice (Video)
August 31, 2017
So adorable I can hardly stand it. Like right up there with Papoosa & Remy Ma’s tried and true lovey-dovey love. In theirs and in Flex Alexander & Shanice’s cases, I am drooling at how hot the ladies are but cannot hate on their dudes… and thus, I end up rooting for their relationships. There is hope and happiness; because there is Black Love. A couple like this proves it! Through thick and thin and thick again. Watch Flex’Nice talk about it.
– @ojones1
Niatia ‘Lil Mama’ Kirkland Stars In “When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story” (Extended Trailer)
August 30, 2017
Damn. She said she was doing this in her radio interview (posted earlier here).
Well, here’s the trailer for the “The Falicia Blakely Story” movie that Niatia Kirkland was in. It just debuted on TV One. Co-starring Lance Gross. Girl turns exotic dancer, gets turned out and her life gets turned upside DOWN!
Posted in Film, Hip-Hop, Relationships, Television, Trailer, Videos | Tags: Lance Gross, Lil’ Mama, Niatia Kirkland, The Falicia Blakely Story, TV ONE, TVOne, When Love Kills | No Comments »
David Alan Grier With ‘An Important Message About White People’ (Video)
August 28, 2017
Call Washington… Denzel Washington. Let’s get this discrimination against White people stopped. Bwaaahaaa!
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to get back on Trump’s good side by directing the Justice Department to focus on the important issue of discrimination against… White people. According to the New York Times, the civil rights division of the Justice Department is planning to investigate what they call “intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.†So, Grammy and Tony nominee David Alan Grier stopped by with a very important message.
– Jimmy Kimmel Live
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Speech, Television, Videos | Tags: An Important Message About White People, David Alan Grier, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live | No Comments »
Activist/Reverend Jesse Jackson Says Former NFL QB Colin Kaepernick Should Have The Right To Play And Express Himself At The Same Time (Video)
August 27, 2017
Above: Bill Maher and Reverend Jackson have a real talk about what is at the essence of Kaep’s stand (or kneel) in PEACEFUL protest… not ‘standing’ for the way Black people are expected to honor the flag & anthem of a country that does not honor them as it should. Kaep can’t get a job in the league, and yet he broke no league or team rule that anyone can cite. Owners and major stakeholders, just in their feelings, are keeping him from his bag. Maybe they are ‘teaching him a lesson’ (maybe teaching US a lesson). Whatever they’re doing smells, and Maher and Jackson talk about what it smells like.
He should have the right to express himself. He’s not burning the flag, he’s not hustling drugs to teammates, he’s not shooting people with guns.
– Rev. Jesse Jackson
Posted in Activism, Interview, Television, Videos | Tags: Bill Maher, Colin Kaepernick, HBO, Jesse Jackson, Real Time, Real Time With Bill Maher, take a knee, We Deserve Much Better | No Comments »
Michael Moore Calls A Racist A Racist, All Of Them… And Those Who Will Not Denounce Them (Video)
August 25, 2017
Anybody who enables, anybody who votes for and supports a racist, is a racist.
– Michael Moore
The controversial filmmaker Moore has never had a problem calling it how he sees it. And in keeping with the lifted quote above, Moore is holding those who support the racist ralliers and those of their ilk – whether gathered at the Take ‘Murica Back rally in Charlottesville or not – just as guilty. Because #BlackLivesMatter or #AllLivesMatter or whatever matters to you aside, the venomous speech, vitriolic tone and victimization of those hurt by Neo-Nazi words and a wildly driven car… well, that all happened. And if you are not denouncing that, you are tacitly supporting it.
#LookingAtYouMrPresident #BothSidesHuh #AndThatTheStoryOfOJ #OK
Posted in Activism, Call To Action, Celebrity, Cover Story, Interview, News, Opinion, Politics, Progressive, Television, Videos | Tags: All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, Charlottesville, Michael Moore, Neo-Nazi, Racism, racist, Virginia, white supremacist | 1 Comment »
Black Love: Remy Ma And Papoose (Video)
August 25, 2017
Hip-Hop’s most lovable lyricists tell us what’s real about their real love. Not surprising that this clip will make you go ‘awww.’ That’s what we are used to now. Not even surprised that they’ve lasted this long. After being loyal through Ma’s stretch in jail, why would Pap go anywhere? Devotion, his wifey being fire on the mic and fine everywhere else (rowrrr)… Sure, those things are part of the story… but watch and listen as the loving couple tell us more.
Respect for women; not just his woman. That got Ma, not the bars, huh? Interesting.
#BlackLove
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Relationships, Television, Videos | Tags: BET, BET Networks, BETNetworks, Black Love, Papoose, Remy Ma, When Remy Ma And Papoose Knew It Was Real | 1 Comment »
Donshea Hopkins Speaks On Life Before, During, And After ‘Power’ (Video)
August 25, 2017
Hope you’ve caught up on your Showtime viewing by now. In particular, I hope you already know what happened on this past Sunday’s episode of “Power.”
****SPOILER ALERT***
Well, the ‘Big Rich Town’ is a very sad place. The violent storm has finally taken someone that EVERYONE will miss: Ghost’s beautiful baby girl is gone. Reina (played by Donshea Hopkins) has fallen. And the “Power” watchers will tune in next week for two reasons… (1) to see what that damnable brother of hers, Tariq, is gonna do and (2) to see what Ghost & Tommy are gonna do (holyyyyy sh!t)!
But don’t cry too, too much for Reina… and you should only shed tears of joy for Donshea. She has been acting practically since right after she could walk. And she has a couple of roles she might revisit (like the series that put Netflix on the map, “Orange Is The New Black”). Click play and tune into Donshea’s radio interview embedded above for the skinny on all that and more!
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Interview, Radio, Series, Television, Videos, Youth | Tags: Donshea Hopkins, Power, Raina | No Comments »
Comic-Con 2017 Debuted An Extended Official Trailer For “The Gifted” (Video)
August 24, 2017
Ought to categorize this under MMM, Mutants Making Money! We know Logan and X-Men movies do well at box office cash registers, but will mutants help Fox TV sell cereal and soap? Oh, you can count on it.
As an (intended, or not) counterweight to its DC-based pre-Batman “Gotham” series, the network is now set to give us another hero genre series, but from the Marvel side this time, “The Gifted.” We posted a trailer on here earlier, but this was the one folks saw at this year’s San Diego Comic Con… where sci-fi and fantasy shows always go bigger and better with the teasers.
– @ojones1
An OWN Series On “Black Love” (Series Trailer)
August 24, 2017
The good, the bad, and the married. Ha! That’s a flip of an iconic tagline if I ever read one. I’m sure couples in this new OWN series will admit to and give advice on the good and bad of long-term relationships and marriage, too. Check out the series trailer for OWN’s new docu-series, Black Love.
Black Love brings you the first-hand accounts of love from every-day couples and a star-studded line up featuring Viola Davis, Tia Mowry & Cory, Meagan Good & DeVon Franklin, Flex Alexander & Shanice, Warryn Campbell & Erica Campbell and more. Don’t miss the premiere, Tuesday, Aug. 29th at 10/9c.
– OWN
– @ojones1
Posted in Advice, Celebrity, Interview, Relationships, Series, Television, Trailer, Videos | Tags: Black Love, Marriage, Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN, Relationship Advice | No Comments »
Watch The “Fear The Walking Dead” Season 3 Trailer Shown At SDCC 2017 (Trailer)
August 24, 2017
If you have not been keeping up with “Fear The Walking Dead” (or worse yet, have not gotten into the series)… It is okay. You have time to binge before it starts back up again. Get with your cable provider and get into the On Demand section. Watch some excellent zombie-genre television.
Now, that is my opinion and plea for you. But watch what the pros teased and lured San Diego Comic Con attendees with this year. Dope right?
Posted in Comics, Series, Television, Thriller, Trailer, Videos | Tags: AMC, AMC Original Series, AMC Series, Comic Con, Comic Con Season 3 Trailer, Comic-Con 2017, FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, San Diego Comic Con, San Diego Comic Con 2017, San Diego Comic Con Trailer, SDCC, SDCC 2017, SDCC Trailer, Season 3 Trailer, Zombie | No Comments »
Ice Cube Speaks On Performing On The Bill With Dave Chappelle And Getting His Hollywood Star (Video)
August 23, 2017
Ice Cube sits down with Jimmy Fallon and talks about his surprise performance with The Roots at Dave Chappelle’s stand-up show, celebrating 25 years of his seminal solo album “Death Certificate,” his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, and his Big3 Basketball League.
– @ojones1
Posted in Business, Celebrity, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Interview, Television, Videos | Tags: Ice Cube, Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | No Comments »
Watch The Documentary “Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” (Trailer)
August 23, 2017
I’m colored, Jewish, and Puerto Rican. When I move into a neighborhood, I wipe it out!
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
And that’s how the trailer for this installment of “American Masters” starts! Definitely a different time back then, and Sammy Davis, Jr. was right there in the think of entertainment’s elite. See his story told as only PBS can.
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Film, History, Television, Trailer, Videos | Tags: American Masters, American Masters PBS, I’ve Gotta Be Me, PBS, Sammy Davis, Sammy Davis Jr. | No Comments »
Tiffany Haddish In Her Showtime Stand-Up “She Ready!” (Teaser Trailer)
August 21, 2017
Mercy mercy! Did you see comedian Tiffany Haddish on Showtime for her Friday night special though?? Sexy on super-smash with that all black outfit gripping her… figure (wow). But she got jokes, funny jokes, for the whole show. So your bae won’t get mad. Hilarious hella sexy Tiffany did great.
Got a few of clips – starting above and more after the jump for you to see.
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Honeyz, Performance, Television, Trailer | Tags: Black Unicorn, Foster Care, From The Hood To Hollywood, Model, She Ready!, Showtime, Showtime Comedy Club, Tiffany Haddish | No Comments »
Comedy: Dave Chappelle On Meeting Kanye West, Getting Played By Prince, And Being The ‘Lost Root’ (Video)
August 17, 2017
Okay. The Yeezy story is awesome, but the ones about meeting The Roots and the Prince judo move… YES! Enjoy this recent throwback interview. Stories told as only Dave Chappelle can tell ’em.
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Interview, Relationships, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon, Kanye West, Prince, The Roots, The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | No Comments »
History: Hear The Recorded Voices Of Former Slaves (Video)
August 17, 2017
My Grandma had a neighbor across the street who took these kinds of insights to the grave. When folks would ask what slavery was like or how she made it through, she would respond, “We don’t talk about those times.”
And that’s it. That’s all she’d say.
And now she’s gone. All that perspective lost to the ages. And since she never even talked to my Grandma (her dearest friend) about it, I never even had a second-hand account. Rest in peace, Grandma.
But now, we get to hear audio from actual former slaves – their words, their voices! And lean in around three minutes in… Former slave Fountain Hughes was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yeah, the place racists and counter-protesters just gathered.
WATCH. NOW!
– @ojones1
Ice Cube And James Corden And Their ‘Very Physical’ Hand-Checking (Video)
August 17, 2017
Hilarious!!! Have you peeped Ice Cube’s BIG3 Basketball League on FS1 yet? Not quite like this, but entertaining. And respect to Corden for the skills… at trash talk and flopping. Bwaaahahaaa!
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Interview, Shots, Sports, Television, Videos | Tags: BIG 3, BIG3, BIG3 Basketball League, Hand-Checking, Ice Cube, James Corden, The Late Late Show, The Late Late Show With James Corden | No Comments »
Say No To The Dress, The Caterer, To The Whole Expensive Wedding… It’s All A Total Rip-Off (Video)
August 17, 2017
How could the College Humor crew dare to attack the sacred, traditional, necessary institution of marriage? Well, because it is really none of that. Just hella expensive for no damn reason (except, well, commerce)!
No hate, even though Adam does Ruin Everything… like the need for big weddings in this episode. Just like he did the ‘wedding ring’ racket (see here).
(Your fiancee might not need to see this though. Haaa!)
– @ojones1
Posted in Faith, Fashion, Food, History, Lifestyle, Relationships, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Adam Ruins Everything, College Humor, tru TV, truTV, Weddings, Why Weddings Are a Total Rip-Off CollegeHumor | No Comments »
