MCLEAN, Va., July 13 (UPI) — U.S. comedy icon Bill Cosby announced he will star in a stand-up television concert on Comedy Central, his first special in 30 years. …read more
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Bill Cosby’s ‘Far From Finished’: New Concert TV Special To Air On Comedy Central
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Bill Cosby will return to TV with a new concert special titled “Far From Finished,” which will air on Comedy Central in November, the network announced Friday.
“Far From Finished” marks Cosby’s first television concert special in 30 years, and will air on November 24. The special is comprised of footage taken from the TV icon’s recent performance at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center, and is directed by Robert Townsend.
Cosby’s last special was “Bill Cosby, Himself” in 1983, which was aptly directed by the comedian. The routines in the concert became the partial basis for “The Cosby Show,” the hit series that ran from 1984 to 1992, reinvigorated NBC and gave us a collective cultural obsession with Cliff Huxtable’s vast sweater collection.
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Consumers Embrace Water As Concerns About Soda Are Debated
Filed under: Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Scandals and Lawsuits
By CANDICE CHOI
NEW YORK — It wasn’t too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old flame has the country’s heart. As New York City grapples with the legality of a ban on the sale of large cups of soda and other sugary drinks at some businesses, one thing is clear: soda’s run as the nation’s beverage of choice has fizzled.
In its place? A favorite for much of history: Plain old H2O. For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest. Americans drank just 42 gallons a year of water at the time.
But over the years, as soda increasingly came under fire for fueling the nation’s rising obesity rates, water quietly rose to knock it off the top spot. Americans now drink an average of 44 gallons of soda a year, a 17 percent drop from the peak in 1998. Over the same time, the average amount of water people drink has increased 38 percent to about 58 gallons a year. Bottled water has led that growth, with consumption nearly doubling to 21 gallons a year.
Stephen Ngo, a civil defense attorney, quit drinking soda a year ago when he started running triathlons, and wanted a healthier way to quench his thirst. Ngo, 34, has a Brita filter for tap water and also keeps his pantry stocked with cases of bottled water. “It might just be the placebo effect or marketing, but it tastes crisper,” said Ngo, who lives in Miami.
The trend reflects Americans’ ever-changing tastes; it wasn’t too far back in history that tap water was the top drink. But in the 1980s, carbonated soft drinks overtook tap as the most popular drink, with Coca-Cola (KO) and PepsiCo (PEP) putting their marketing muscle behind their colas with celebrity endorsements from the likes of pop star Michael Jackson and comedian Bill Cosby.
Americans kept drinking more of the carbonated, sugary drink for about a decade. Then, soda’s magic started to fade: Everyone from doctors to health advocates to government officials were blaming soft drinks for making people fat. Consumption started declining after hitting a high in the late 1990s.
At the same time, people started turning to bottled water as an alternative. Its popularity was helped by the emergence of single-serve bottles that were easy to carry around. Until then, bottled water had mainly been sold in “big jugs and coolers” for people who didn’t trust their water …read more
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The Great Separation From Ghetto Black Folks
By capblack
(Author’s note: Please offer this to a liberal Black person you know.)
Black folks, we literally stand at a cross roads with oblivion! The Ghetto looms ever larger as the center of contemporary Black culture, which means disaster for America- starting with us!
Socialists and mainstream enablers say denouncing our out-of-( self ) control inner city is ” blaming the victim. ”
They state how wrong Bill Cosby is to pull the Ghetto card and slam it down on American Blacks cultural tables!
They indite Black conservatives for abandoning the less fortunate to chase White Power dollars.
They beat us over the head with captivity; Jim Crow; post-segregation; re-segregation; Angry White Men; Fear of Obama and every other rhetorical quiver in their arsenal.
The cross roads toward oblivion still overshadow their best arguments.
A vision of internal ( as in Black on Black ) separation visits me upon occasion.
While Black Flight from the high risk Hood is a long established fact this vision of internal separation will be a widely advertised policy. It will be mandated by shaken stakeholders deciding color no longer merits not just concern- but literal proximity.
Imagine the Great Migration of Black Southerners to the North during the mid 20th Century. The projection in my mind is more a ” Great Separation ” from ghetto Blacks by exhausted stakeholders who no longer champion them.
If we’re honest there’s already two Black Americas, similar to socio-economic class distinctions in other populations.
The Great Separation takes that divide to a more egalitarian but even broader conclusion: poverty is no longer a bar to acceptance!
Under Great Separation terms behavior; ones diction; dress; criminal record and other criteria determine admission to these new ethnic enclaves where silence; order and cultural literacy are absolute requirements.
Ghetto Blacks could no longer rub elbows with better off peers via Section 8 or mixed used housing.
Internal separation means the Hood will be left to its own devices with support coming from government and perhaps residual humanitarians opting not to separate.
Ghetto Blacks could do little more than complain lyrically via rap and by Twitter or other internet means.
Entering Great Separation communities will require secure access identical to the norm for current high income neighborhoods. Patrolling these neighborhoods would be well armed private officers ( think Blackwater for Black folks ) and off duty police under strict orders to aggressively preserve quality of life.
If this vision is shocking; ” elitist ” or ” racist ” then re-consider how shocking; elitist and racist it is to allow Ghetto Blacks to be ridiculously vile and violent without demanding better behavior and community sanctions?
American Black socialists; nationalists; liberals; moderates; conservatives and libertarians who practice civility have the same complaint behind closed doors about Ghetto Blacks.
Every day of their silence brings my envisioned Great Separation closer to reality!
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority celebrates centennial
The nation’s capital is swarming with women wearing crimson and white, as one of the country’s largest African-American sororities gathers to celebrate 100 years of sisterhood.
More than 12,000 members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. are convening to mark the organization’s centennial this weekend with activities including community service, a rededication and an awards ceremony.
“We want people to understand that we are still called to serve,” said Gwendolyn Boyd, chair of the sorority’s centennial events. “When we gather, we gather not to just socialize, but also to render service in every community.”
Members from across the country participated in 22 projects throughout the District of Columbia on Friday in honor of their 22 founders.
Boyd said the sorority was also using the weekend to thank those who have collaborated with them in service. They will hold a rededication luncheon and gala on Saturday that will be emceed by actors Tim Reid and Daphne Maxwell Reid.
The gala will honor members, organizations and individuals who represent the sorority’s mantra, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Johnetta B. Cole, the director of the National Museum of African Art; comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille; former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; syndicated radio host Tom Joyner; and U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. Also being honored: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League and the National Council of Negro Women.
The festivities culminate on Sunday, the sorority’s actual centennial, with a black-tie dinner with guest honoree General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt.
The weekend celebration is a part of series of centennial year events for the sorority. In March, the Deltas will re-enact the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, in which their founders participated. The sorority will gather in Washington again in July for its national convention.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. was founded on Jan. 13, 1913, on the campus of Howard University. The sorority has more than 250,000 members and more than 900 chapters.
Members have included activists Mary McLeod Bethune and Dorothy Height and congresswomen Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan. Other notable members include poet Nikki Giovanni, journalists Gwen Ifill and Soledad O’ Brien, singers Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Leontyne Price and Roberta Flack, and actresses Cicely Tyson and Ruby Dee.
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Online: www.deltasigmatheta.org/
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