Black Friday ads

Walmart Black Friday Ad Posted

We just posted the Walmart Black Friday sales information and its 24-page Black Friday advertisement scans.

Walmart will be opening at midnight this year, but will start most of their big door-buster deals at 5am! Some of their door-buster items include:

Apple 8GB iPod Touch w/ $50 Walmart Gift Card - $225

Emerson 32" 720p LCD HDTV - $198

eMachines 15.6" Notebook w/Intel Processor, 2GB Memory, 250GB Hard Drive - $198

Samsung DualView PL 100 Digital Camera w/ 100 4"x6" Prints from Walmart 1-Hour Photo - $99

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Black Girls Rock

Ruby Dee Honored at BET's "Black Girls Rock!" Ceremony

NEW YORK (CBS) Ruby Dee, the actress who co-starred in the 1961 film adaption of "A Raisin in the Sun," was one of the many women honored at the 5th Annual "Black Girls Rock!" event, which aired Sunday on BET.

PICTURES: Ruby Dee

Dee, who is also known for being a political activist, journalist and poet, as well as an award-winning actress, was the receipt of this year's Living Legend Award.

"It's times like these that I come to understand and appreciate profoundly the empowerment and promise, the responsibility in being deemed a legend," Dee said in her acceptance speech, according to the press release.

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For Colored Girls

Tales from the Script

Actresses Transcend Preposterous Soliloquies in Perry's For Colored Girls

by James Scott

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet." -- Tangie (Tandy Newton)

Let's be brutally honest. Most women go to the movies their boyfriends pick, generally action/adventure films, the majority of which star white action heroes. This effectively freezes out the black American woman, which is not only unfair culturally but also would seem to be obtuse, businesswise, as I suspect there are more than a few black women who would like to go to movies, if they could only find some that spoke to them. That's why I've championed Tyler Perry, Atlanta's indigenous filmmaker who actually maintains a steady production output. The market is there, he's tapped into it, and I say more power to him. There's just one problem: While his dramatic instincts are good, his technical flair has been weak.

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