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Everyone complains about the overload of news and information. Much of what we see and hear is just so much unnecessary baloney. If your source for news and information is one of those 24 hour cable news stations, then you’ll instantly recognize the characteristics and style of reporting made light of in the video. It’s tough to fill everyday 24 hours a day with valuable news you can use.

We want to thank our cleverly comic friends at The Onion for providing this wonderful, and on some level salient, video piece spoofing the news. They’re telling it like it T-I-S!

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Blanche Africa Reilly Dark is back with commentary about Gabourey Sidibe, the award winning, Oscar nominated actress who made her debut in the Lee Daniels directed independent film “Precious, Based on the Novel ‘Push” by Sapphire”.

Gabourey Sidibe is  young, vivacious and beautiful. Let’s commend her fine award winning, Golden Globe and Oscar nominated performance. Her portrayal of an abused, emotionally challenged urban female youth brought attention to the issues of child abuse, mental illness and poor nutrition, features of home life for too many American families.

While we applaud her success can we just give the lady a break on the assessment of her appearance? There is no doubt Ms Sidibe is aware she is fat. There I said it. (more…)

Nina Simone the High Priestess of Soul, composer of more than 500 songs, the creator of a musical narrative for a generation for an era of Civil Rights demonstrations, is the featured artist celebrant  in Clark Dark’s Black History Month Entertainment Spotlight.

Celebrate Black History Month 2010

Eunice Walker Johnson had been since 1961 the producer and director of America’s most well known fashion show The Ebony Fashion Fair. (more…)

“We are the world, we are the children…”
Lionel Richie

In March of 1985 forty-five American singing stars gathered at the A&M music studio to record a song composed by the late Michael Jackson and lyricist Lionel Richie. The featured singers from several genres of music joined to make a record that would be sold to raise money for the charity USA For Africa. They raised over $30 million to help the less fortunate overseas.

On February 1, 2010 a new generation of celebrities, count’em 80, singers, actors, and the like–joined by some old school participants from the first recording, have gathered to do a remake of the original song We Are The World. This time money raised will go the benefit the survivors of last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. The organization is We Are The World 25 For Haiti. (more…)

“There’s a choice we’re making.
We’re saving our own lives…”-Lionel Richie

Nearly twenty-five years after the initial recording of the song created by the late Michael Jackson with lyrics by Lionel Richie, a new generation of Hollywood celebrities, singers, actors, models and people just known for being known, gathered to record a remake of the song that raised in 1985 more than $30 million for the charity USA For Africa.

This new crop of celebrities met on February 1, 2010, almost 25 years after the first gathering headed by music producer Quincy Jones, to record the cover to raise money for the survivors of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti.

We’ve decided to revisit the original recording from 1985: (more…)

CONGRATULATIONS to the New Orleans Saints who beat the Indianapolis Colts, 31 to 17, to win their first ever NFL Super Bowl championship. (more…)

This month Clark Dark is featuring Black History Month articles of interest about entertainment, style and fashion.

First up international entertainment leader with six Grammys wins in one night, Beyonce Knowles.

On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada Caressa Cameron, the contestant representing Virginia, was crowned Miss America 2010

Miss Cameron, a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, displayed her singing talent by performing the song “Listen” from “Dreamgirls”.

In the Q & A portion (more…)

This is how our leadership looks to the rest of the world. All you red, white and blue Yankee-Doodle Dandies make a reality check.

This piece which uses some outstanding trick photography, is by Joezjny a comic filmmaker on the Dutch Comedy Central…remember it’s only a joke.