Report: Beyonce's Mrs. Carter Show World Tour to Earn $200 Million

Beyonce is at the peak of her career and when her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour comes to an end this year it will reportedly have generated more than $200 million dollars!!!! Not only will it be the most successful tour of her career, but it will also make her the "highest paid black musician of all time."

Beyonce is not only the star of the show, she's serves as its director and executive producer of the tour through her production company, Parkwood Entertainment.

Beyonce is scheduled to kick off the European leg of her Mrs. Carter World Tour beginning Feburary 20 at Glasgow, Scotland's SSE Hydro Arena.


Get it Beyonce!!!!!  That proves that being true to yourself really does pay off...

Cherokee Nation Kicking Out Black Descendants?

Here is a chapter of US History that you won't read in the books!

For a long time the Cherokee Nation embraced the descendants of "Freedmen", African-American slaves that the tribe used to own. The Freedmen did not have Cherokee blood but an 1866 treaty between the US and the Cherokee nation made it law that all Freedmen and their descendants would receive the same benefits as an ethnically Cherokee person (including suffrage).

It was voted that this treaty COULD NOT be changed under any circumstances at any time! But in 2007 the Cherokee Nation passed an amendment that one must be of Cherokee blood to obtain tribesmanship.

What does this mean? That the 2,800 registered descendents of Freedmen are at risk of losing their tribal status! Usually the US Government stays out of tribal affairs but it has intervened to make sure that the 1866 treaty is still fairly enforced.

Tribal leaders are not trying to hear it! And they plan on proceeding with the 2007 amendement by disregarding all non-blood members. Tribe leaders are especially eager to get these members out because they feel that Freedmen are unfairly taking advantage of suffrage benefits.

This story is disappointing and saddening. Honor and integrity are irreplaceable, it is terrible to see that a whole nation is willing to back out on it's word.

Marvel’s New Spider-Man Is Half-Black Half-Hispanic

Interesting news.....  according to Newsone, The new Spider-Man in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate universe is a half-black, half-Hispanic teen named Miles Morales, revealed in a new issue released Wednesday.




Morales takes over Peter Parker’s job, after the hero is killed in Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 160 in June.


"Morales’ journey will be a similar vehicle for today’s fans, says Marvel’s editor in chief, Axel Alonso.

What you have is a Spider-Man for the 21st century who’s reflective of our culture and diversity. We think that readers will fall in love with Miles Morales the same way they fell in love with Peter Parker."

President Obama Host First Ever Twitter Town Hall Meeting

We have such a cool President!!!!  He will be having the first ever Twitter town hall meeting on Wednesday, July 6th at 12 p.m ET.


President Obama will be answering questions on the economy and jobs via a live web cast. Previously, he held town halls hosted by and broadcasted on Facebook and YouTube.


He promised to begin to personally tweet from his account leading up to the 2012 Presidential Election.


Submit a question for President Obama’s upcoming Twitter town hall by tweeting a question that includes the hashtag #AskObama. The president Obama's answers will be live streamed on AskObama.Twitter.com next week.

Black History Fact: Prince Whipple

UrbanCafe will be celebrating Black History Month by bring you a Black History fact every week this month. 

Happy Black History Month!!!


If you’ve ever seen a copy of Emmanuel Leutze's 1851 painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware," at the New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, you’ll notice a black soldier at the helm, helping to row. The soldier is said to be Prince “Caleb Quotem” Whipple. His original name is unknown.




Quotem was an African prince born in 1750 to wealthy parents in Ambou, Africa. At age 10, he and his cousin were offered the opportunity to go to America and be educated by a ship captain. His parents had no reason to feel uneasy about the trip, as they sent an older son years prior on the same expedition. But when they arrived to America, Quotem was sold into slavery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to General William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. His life story, now as Prince Whipple, would become one of military history and a court struggle for freedom in 1779.



When General Whipple was called to the Revolutionary war, Prince Whipple was forced to accompany him. As a slave, Whipple worked for the military’s prominent soldiers, who were impressed with his literacy and eloquent manner. One of those men included then-General George Washington. It was said that General Whipple trusted him so much, that he was once given a large amount of money to transport from Salem to Portsmouth. During his trip, he was attacked on the road, by two men, both of whom he defeated with a whip and a gun.



In 1779, Prince Whipple, along with 19 other slaves, petitioned the courts for freedom, based on their kidnapping from Africa as children. The petition was set aside, and the prince was not freed until 1784.



Prince Whipple married a freed slave named Dinah in 1781 before he was freed, and had seven children. He died in 1796, and his grave is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.