NBC is rolling out a big event for the holiday. The reboot of the famed Broadway show is coming back to the screens with an all-star African American cast. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, it will premiere on the network.
Will it be a hit or a flop?
The cast includes Shanice Williams, Ne-Yo, Amber Riley, Elijah Kelley, Common, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, David Alan Grier and Uzo Aduba.
It will premiere on the network on December 3rd.
It's been 40 years since The Wiz. The 1975 Broadway production won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical was an early example of Broadway's mainstream acceptance of works with an all-black cast.
The Broadway show is an urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of modern African-American culture.
Stephanie Mills, who once played Dorothy in The Wiz will make a guest star role as Aunt Em.
The musical inspired a motion picture film that featured Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne and Michael Jackson. It was viewed as a flop but remains a cult classic among the fans.
Someone pulled a b-move on a security company. The feds are searching for a suspect who managed to walk off with $500,000. The suspect came in without a weapon and not a scratch on him.
The feds are looking for the suspect involved in the robbery of an armored truck outside a Detroit casino. The suspect allegedly wore the same gear that the driver was wearing.
The robbery happened in the Greektown neighborhood. The Greektown Casino is located smack dead in the area.
The security guard who operated the truck is certainly going to be fired out the cannon. He will be under federal watch until they can prove that he wasn't an inside man.
The guard said that he was ordered to open the armored truck. The suspect grab the loot and disappeared. The law said that the suspect didn't appear to have a getaway ride in the area.
The truck wasn't supposed to be at the casino. There wasn't a scheduled pickup or drop off.
The suspect got away with over $500K.
I seriously doubt the suspect traveled across the Detroit River to escape the feds. The city of Detroit borders the U.S.-Canadian border.
Loomis will be doing some changes to the policies.
The suspect is described as a black male wearing a Loomis Armored security guard shirt.
A source familiar with the case said the security guard of the armored vehicle thought the thief was a coworker because he was wearing a uniform shirt.
FBI media spokeswoman Jill Washburn said the FBI is investigating, but she declined further comment, citing agency policy.
Something doesn't smell right! To me it smells like an inside job!
Don't you need a badge before you approach an armored truck?
Second don't you have to fill out paper work?
Did the security guard call his supervisor?
Since there was no delivery or pickup, why did the security guard come to the Greektown Casino?
The feds are getting to the bottom of this. That requires the surveillance cameras around the facility, the streets and local businesses.
Somehow you can't just take $500K and not be noticed!
I got an opportunity to check out the latest stories on Google+.
It seems like nothing is sacred anymore. This was mentioned by S. Baldwin.
I happened to click on Addicting Info and got an opportunity to shake my head in disgust over the heartless actions done to a homeless veteran.
In Philadelphia, the law is searching for the individuals who beat 51-year old Robert Barnes to death.
Robert Barnes before his death. He was hit over the head with a blunt object.
They believe Robert got hit with a blunt object. He was declared brain dead after the injuries prove to be too extensive to treat. He would die upon the injuries.
The people who were arrested were teenagers. They claimed that Robert got into an argument with one of the suspects.
Not only that, one of the suspect's mother, 34-year-old Aleathea Gillard, has been charged in the case, along with 24-year-old Shareena Joachim.
Three teens were also arrested and charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, simple assault and related offenses.
World News Today sends our condolences to the family of Robert Barnes.
The racist right tries to deflect, distract, discredit and disengage.
When #BlackLivesMatter denounces police brutality, conservatives are trying to turn the conversation into "Black On Whatever" violence.
That right wing network has declared war on #BlackLivesMatter.
Every agitator that appears on their lineups have openly attacked the group and President Barack Obama for embracing the grassroots movement.
After all, since he's the first Black president, according to the agitators he's a part of their movement.
Well one journalist managed to call out the bullshit deflection.
Raw Story and Mediaite have managed to catch the debate between Chicago Sun Times writer Lynn Sweet and two of that right wing network's agitators.
The syndicated writer Cal Thomas off the bat worrying his ass off about "Black on Black" crime.
Thomas and right wing network anchor Leland Vittert call out the junk food media for not questioning protesters on the names of the victims of recent violence in Chicago.
Chiraq is coming to the movie theaters. Spike Lee's movie talks about gun violence in Chicago.
Sweet decided to call them out on their concern trolling.
“There has been tremendous attention to crime in Chicago,” she said. “I don’t know how any person who is familiar with the situation says that there’s not.”
Sweet then pointed out that national news coverage of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s bid for reelection had focused on crime in Chicago.
“So I don’t even understand the premise of where you’re coming from on this one. Respectfully said,” she said.
Conservatives only concerns for gun control is taking the Second Amendment rights from Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims.
They fail to realize that gun violence is by far the biggest threat to the United States. Terrorism, Ebola, and HIV are deadly threats to the country. But none so than the firearm and the reckless actions by those who operate them. That's where the problem lies.
CJ Pearson became a national celebrity when he made a YouTube videos slamming President Barack Obama. Now the 13 year old conservative wonder kid is back peddling his criticism of the president and is denouncing conservatism.
Pearson still says he's a conservative but more a tad more rational.
What turned him around?
The conservative reaction towards the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Turning over a new leaf.
He believes that the shooting of Laquan opened up wounds that Republicans failed to discuss. Matter of fact he released a public statement.
"I'm not interested in being a champion of a cause that turns a blind eye to racial discrimination and police brutality in America," Pearson said in a statement.
"Over the past few days, I thought about essentially how I don't want people to follow me because I'm that anti-Obama kid, or who called out Hillary Clinton or who took Bernie Sanders to task," Pearson said. "I don't want to be the conservative wonder kid that people follow because I make them feel good and like young people are part of their movement. I want to be followed because I'm the voice of a generation that doesn't have a voice at the table."
Pearson said that he isn't supportive of the candidates running. He still has some love for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) but the love for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is gone.
"I'm also done with campaigns. You wanna hear about stress? I'm telling ya. I just want to be a voice for my generation now."
Conservatives quickly denounced him as being "soft" and a "liberal" indoctrinated by the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Many conservatives believe that the fatal shooting of Lequan was terrible. However, they concluded that Laquan being on PCP was a factor to his death. Many Black conservatives (i.e. Sheriff David Clarke, Kevin Jackson, Jesse Lee Peterson and Deneen Borelli) have denounced the video as propaganda spewed by the left.
Could this be a new start for CJ Pearson?
Did he changed his tone of rhetoric because he finally realized that he's a Black teenager living in a world where he's looked upon as a criminal in the eyes of those who supported him in the past?
Mass shooting in Colorado Springs targeted Planned Parenthood.
The Republicans were pretty confident that they could take on the women's health provider. Because of the undercover videos that were released showing Planned Parenthood workers explaining fetal tissue, Republicans have vowed to defund the organization.
Insurgents like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have vowed defund Planned Parenthood.
It was getting major play on that right wing network. The AM agitators have brought it up.
It also inspired terrorists to create havoc among the providers and patients. There were over 10 incidents where terrorists have sought havoc on Planned Parenthood. This one happens to attract the junk food media's attention.
A terrorist who opened fire on lawmen and innocent civilians at a Planned Parenthood yesterday. The residents of Colorado Springs, Colorado once again experienced another major shooting in their community. The last shooting was a 31-year old terrorist who opened fire on civilians. He managed to kill four before the law killed him.
The city of Colorado Springs is one of the safest cities in the United States. These latest incidents of mass shootings in the city have the nation once again griping with the debate over firearms and the threat of terrorism (i.e. right wing extremism).
The president and Colorado's Democratic governor John Hickenlooper were notified.
World News Today send our condolences to those lost in this senseless tragedy.
CNN reports that three people were shot dead Friday, including university police Officer Garrett Swasey, whose body was escorted out early Saturday morning by his fellow officers. Five officers and four civilians are hospitalized in good condition, according to city police Lt. Catherine Buckley, after the assault.
This terrorist currently held in lock up on capital murder of a lawman and civilians.
And then there's the challenge of making sense of all this bloodshed: Why, on the day after Thanksgiving, would a man walk up to a clinic with his guns out and then hold out for hours before finally surrendering?
Planned Parenthood, which delivers reproductive health care and sex education to women and men across the United States, has come under attack before. But the group said Friday night that it didn't know anything about this facility being "targeted deliberately."
"The heart of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains is broken ... as we try to make sense of the horrific tragedy," the provider's regional division tweeted.
Ketanya Craion was a hostage. She said that see the terrorist shooting at the law.
And authorities have not outlined a motive in Friday's incident that had those in the clinic huddling in horror and others hunkering down in fear in nearby stores and offices.
They have, however, identified the man they say is responsible: 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear.
This terrorist was being held without bail Saturday in a Colorado Springs jail, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office website. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
Ketanya Craion was in an exam room when the shooting began Friday morning. Three people were killed and nine others were injured before police arrested 57-year-old Robert Dear after an hours-long standoff.
“When I saw him shooting the guns, it looked like he was talking to himself as he was shooting,” said Craion.
Craion said she ran out of the exam room and into another, where she found a nurse and a patient unaware of the shooting.
“She was about to release the other girl to go back to the lobby because she was done with the services that they were doing,” she said. “When I came in, they weren’t aware of anything until they heard the gunshots and me identify that there was a gunman on site.
Craion said she and the others pushed an exam bed up against the door since it didn’t have a lock. The three of them sat in front of the door for about five hours.
Police haven’t released a motive for the shooting or said whether the Planned Parenthood clinic was the intended target. Dear exchanged gunfire with police throughout the day, authorities said.
“It looked like maybe there was someone outside that he was trying to aim at before he actually entered in the Planned Parenthood,” said Craion.
Okay, I want to know who's actually going to take the blame? Obviously the junk food media will attack someone. Obviously I am going to automatically blame the shooter. But who would you blame for this tragedy.
Now that the Planned Parenthood Shooter is captured, who really deserves the blame?
Let me be clear, that gun violence is the number one threat in the United States. I believe that our country is so tone deaf to mass shootings. It's like President Barack Obama said, we're numb to these events.
We reacted quickly to the terrorist attacks in Paris, France. The moment it was revealed the terrorist were supporters of the Islamic State, American lawmakers automatically tried to pass legislation to restrain Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the country. They did more in Congress to stop refugees from entering the country than trying to stop mass shootings.
Three weeks in the murder of a Chicago boy. The law announced they made arrest in the murder of Tyshawn Lee.
A few weeks ago, the murder of a Chicago boy attracted the junk food media's attention.
Tyshawn Lee was murdered in cold blood. He was lured into an alley and then ambushed by an alleged domestic terrorist.
Corey Morgan is being held in the Cook County lock up on first degree murder. The second man is an active. Kevin Edwards is being sought by the Chicago Police and U.S. Marshals.
This cold blooded terrorist murdered the little boy after he was walking to his home. It was supposedly a gang retaliation. The man is 27 years old. The boy was 9.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said investigators say "at least" three people were involved with the incident. In addition to charges against Morgan, an arrest warrant has been issued for Kevin Edwards. Another man is currently in custody on unrelated charges.
McCarthy said Morgan is a documented domestic terrorist and convicted felon. Investigators had been questioning Morgan in the case. He was arrested on an unrelated gun charge and was released on bail earlier this week.
Around 4 p.m. on Nov. 2, Tyshawn was lured into an alley near West 80th Street and South Damen Avenue and executed, police said. He was shot in the head and suffered several graze wounds.
Tyshawn's family said he loved to play basketball and video games. A basketball was found in the alley near his body.
Authorities said the child was executed in retaliation for his father's ties to domestic terrorists in an ongoing fight between rivals. Pierre Stokes, Tyshawn's father, has denied those allegations.
Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum are accused of murdering a little boy. These domestic terrorists will face LIFE if found guilty.
No one can tell you how many people are shot a day. If you did a list of the many Americans shot by a firearm it would probably be in the tens of thousands. A person is shot a day. A person is killed by a firearm a day. Over 2.345 people are shot a day by a firearm.
The biggest concern troll to host a cable news program is by far the most annoying conservative agitator to exist. He and many others in the conservative media like to distort the truth. They undermine the reasons to why #BlackLivesMatter continue to protest.
There was a protest rally in the wake of Lequan McDonald being shot by the now fired lawman Jason Van Dyke.
Catholic pastor Michael Pfleger was there at the rally and a reporter for the right wing network came up on him. The reporter asked Pfleger about the death of Tyshawn Lee. Pfleger did comment a little bit about him. Unfortunately, the annoying conservative agitator was obsessed with trying to bait Pfleger with the words of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.
As with Van Dyke, Morgan and Edwards are innocent until proven guilty. Each of these men could face LIFE in the iron college if found guilty. I'm not sure if Illinois has the gas house!
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Tyshawn Lee and Lequan McDonald.
That right wing network got a hissy fit over a protester staring down a lawman.
Megyn The Outrage Princess was not a happy camper over the past day. She was livid.
There was a viral image of a man staring down a police officer in Chicago. In the wake of the Laquan McDonald shooting, many activists are planning a "shut down" of Black Friday. There's going to be sit-in protests at major city malls and shopping centers by the #BlackLivesMatter activists.
The right wing network is devoted to making #BlackLivesMatter, anti-White, anti-cop, anti-American.
Taking Points Memo report that Megyn got heated with a guest over the confrontation.
"I just want to jump in as we're seeing an extraordinary moment. Look what's happening here," Megyn said.
Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik told Megyn, "Listen, you're going to have guys like this. You know, they want to instigate."
Richard Fowler jumped in to protest Kerik's comment and said, "What is he instigating? Bernie, I'm sorry I've got to interrupt."
"But Richard look at him," Megyn responded. "This is a cop out there accused of doing nothing wrong, trying to keep the peace."
Fowler said that it was the protester's First Amendment right.
"This guy is having a silent protest with this police officer," he said.
"He gets right in his face and stares him down? This cop hasn't done anything wrong," Megyn replied.
"You think that's fine? You have no problem with this?" Megyn later asked Fowler after he maintained that the protester had a right to stare down the officer.
"This is his first amendment right. This biggest problem here is..." Fowler said in response.
"It's not a question of what his constitutional rights are. It's a question of what's appropriate," Megyn hit back.
According to the right wing network, it's unfair if you're given the right to stare at law enforcement.
You should be arrested for staring at a lawman.
John Felton managed to get Dayton Police to admit they've fucked up when they pulled him over for "staring at an officer". That right wing network continues to tosses out the notion that it's the First Amendment right when it comes to peaceful protests.
When there were armed White protesters at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch doing a staring down state and federal lawmen, the right wing network was extremely supportive of their right to do that.
The conservative Craiglist splashed the title above and it seems like the usual dog whistle for White extremists. The title is given is a moniker to the scheduled protested held by activist in the wake of the police shooting of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald.
The #BlackLivesMatter movement have proposed to shutdown Black Friday with sit in protests against police brutality.
The indictment of Jason Van Dyke marks a first in the history of Chicago P.D. He will be the first on duty officer indicted in the murder of a civilian.
What has the activists pissed is the fact that the city of Chicago held on to the video release for over a year. They fought hard to not release the video. A judge ordered the immediate release of the disturbing video.
Van Dyke shot Laquan over 16 times. His attorney said that he was using self defense.
The protesters will do peaceful sit-ins in major city malls and shopping centers.
The picture that was splashed above gives the notion that #BlackLivesMatter activists are rioters and looters.
The fight continues.
The official BlackLivesMatter website has taken notice to the conservative misinformation. The website published a list of accusations spewed by the right. The site says that conservatives are deliberately trying to undermine the movement for short term political gains. The site has concluded that conservatives are justifying the unfair treatment of Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, LGBT, and immigrants.
Who are the real terrorist here in the United States?
Let's clear a few things up. There are 1.5 billion practicing Muslims in the world. There are 40 million people in the United States who are practicing in Islam.
Muslims condemn violence. It is truly the religion of peace. There is an element of society who inherited this belief that the Western world is deliberately trying to wage war against Muslims.
There are factors to why terrorism exist. Usually it involves poverty, a lack of education, political corruption, a sense of no hope and of course lack of support.
In the United States, the junk food media has pushed this narrative that ALL Muslims are scary.
The Republicans and their conservative allies are exploiting the Paris attacks as a buffer to push a narrow minded and downright racist agenda.
They are trying to push religious tests, ban Syrian refugees, and force police profiling on Muslims.
They are stroking fear and paranoia.
Now an armed group of White extremists are bothering parishioners at the Islamic Center in Irving.
David Wright III decided to be dick. He wanted push his Islamophobia through the social media.
He published the names and phone numbers of people who attended or supported the mosque.
His organization the Bureau of American-Islamic Relations (BAIR) is a play on the Council of American-Islamic Relation (CAIR). The group is anti-Muslim and pro-gun.
“THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF EVERY MUSLIM AND MUSLIM SYMPATHIZER THAT STOOD UP FOR SHARIA SHARIA TRIBUNALS IN IRVING TX. LISTED BELOW,” wrote Wright on BAIR’s social media page.
The White extremists believe they can convince the Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott that Shir'a Law is a coming and White folks better be aware of it.
His defense to having firearms at these protest rallies: "Self-defense".
The controversy was sparked also by the Ahmed Mohamed controversy. The young teen was a student at a Irving school. He was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his class.
It became a rally cry for conservatives to attack Muslims.
Republicans are stupid as fuck. These idiots want gun control for Blacks, Hispanics, and practicing Muslims. They want Christian people to have more rights than those who aren't religious. They want to get into women's lives by passing restrictive laws that outlaw abortions and paid maternity leave.
It's like they're asshole backwards when it comes to progress. And now because of this resentment, White extremists are inspired to kill.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck announced that her run on the couch is about to come to an end. She announce she will leave the right wing network in December.
She will now become a full time mom to her many children.
In the meanwhile the two meat heads will have to find a replacement.
Wondering who could be the new blonde on the couch?
In the meantime, Hasselbeck will no longer have to defend the ignorance of co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.
Well in their annual Thanksgiving special, they invite Outnumbered's Harris Faulkner to make a few easy dinners.
That nimrod Brian Kilmeade asked the well educated Black anchor if she served Kool-Aid when she prepares food.
“Do you make Kool-Aid?” he asked.
“Uh, do I do what?” she replied.
“Make Kool-Aid,” Kilmeade repeated.
“Uh, no,” Faulkner stuttered. “I – I don’t make Kool-Aid.”
Last time, Kilmeade asked a weather girl if she was raised on tacos and tequila.
As you know, me and S. Baldwin have long complained about the divisive tactics of that right wing network. The network is playing on the racist stereotypes of Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims.
Of course these narratives drive White resentment. It's unfortunate that this right wing network dominates in ratings. It's a pretty damn shame that on Thanksgiving your crazy family member may have thoughts of Blacks being pretty much raised on chicken, collard greens, skittles, watermelon, grape drank and Ol' English.
Thanks to Raw Story for bring it to our attention.
J'Zyra Thompson was placed in an oven by her siblings. The mother and her boyfriend are facing murder charges.
The unfortunate circumstances of negligent parenting. A mother and her boyfriend are held in the Harris County lockup for involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.
Racquel Thompson and Cornell Malone are being held on a $36,000 "get out free card".
The junk food media took notice of a tragic incident inside an apartment in northern Houston.
Thompson was going to take her boyfriend Malone to work and pick up some food for her children.
She was the mother of four children.Thompson is pregnant with another child and is expecting her child in the coming weeks.
She decided "it won't be that long". She believed the children wouldn't touch anything while she was gone. She thought wrong and now she pays the price. J'Zyra Thompson, an 18 month child was in the kitchen crawling. One of the children (two of them 3 years old and one 5 year old) decided to turn the oven on and shove their little sister in the oven.
Racqual Thompson and Cornell Malone are held on second degree murder (by way of child endangerment).
When the baby was pushed in the oven, they heard the screaming and crying. They couldn't do nothing they were frozen in fear.
When Thompson returned home, she saw her children crying and telling mom that they played with the oven and J'Zyra was in it. As Thompson turned the oven off, she discovered her daughter lifeless burned from end to end, barely recognizable. Of course she called the law.
The law arrived to hear the sobbing mom tell them that she only left for a few minutes. She didn't think her children were capable of messing with an oven.
The law called Harris County child protective services to investigate. They determined that Thompson was irresponsible for the death of the daughter. By her leaving, and not having proper supervision and training on the dangers of the home.
The law decided to put the cuff on her and Malone. They were on social media saying that "they're not going to be charged for the negligent parenting".
Well in Texas, you could be sentenced to LIFE in the iron college for the negligent parenting.
They are innocent until proven guilty.
The three children were placed in foster care. Once Thompson gives birth to her baby, the Texas state board will decide on whether she has to forfeit her child to foster care.
The father of J'Zyra, Fredrick Price wanted to strangle Thompson and Malone. He was totally devastated over the loss of his child.
"She was cute little baby," said Price.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of J'Zyra Thompson.
