Michael Epps and Bobb’e J. Thompson in ‘School Dance’. Kicking off an impressive career in front of the camera at the tender age of five, Bobb’e J. Thompson rose to fame as a child actor well before his teens, initially with a small but colorful and energetic supporting role as the pint-sized Tupac in My […]
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The Astronomical Kid Comes of Age
Astro in Earth to Echo. (Photo by Patrick Wymore) Brian “Astro” Bradley was born on August 26, 1996 in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he started rapping at an early age. At 14, he successfully auditioned for Season 1 of the reality-TV series “The X-Factor” by performing a song he wrote called, “Stop Looking at My Moms.” […]
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Nick Cannon Makes Directorial Debut with Help of Star-Studded Cast
Nick Cannon is a versatile entertainer; actor, comedian, rapper, radio DJ, TV host and as the husband of pop dive Mariah Carey. With School Dance, Nick steps behind the camera to add filmmaker to his extensive resume. His jaw-dropping directorial debut is a raunchy romantic comedy that might be best thought of as Romeo and […]
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Las Vegas Serves as Backdrop for Battle-of-the-Sexes Sequel
The movie, “Think Like A Man Too.” The surprise hit Think Like a Man was #1 at the box-office over its opening weekend back in April of 2012. Inspired by Steve Harvey’s best-selling, “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,” the original explored some of the serious issues tackled by the popular, relationship advice […]
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Don’t Miss Chance to Catch Patti LaBelle in ‘After Midnight’
If you were lucky enough to tune in to the Tony Awards from the very beginning last Sunday evening, you caught a pretty phenomenal opening spotlighting Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Fantasia singing a spirited rendition of “On the Sunny Side of the Street.” The three were doing a number from the Broadway musical After […]
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Meagan’s Mmm Mmm Good!
Actress Meagan Good. Meagan Good has developed into one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses for both film and television. Most recently, she starred in the sequel Anchorman: The Legend Continues opposite Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Kristen Wiig. Additionally, she was seen starring as the lead character Detective Joanna Locasto in the new […]
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Yoga, Meditation and Spiritual Growth for the African-American Community
“This book is for you, the everyday person, the person who works, has a family (or not) and wants to stay stress-free, happy, fulfilled and healthy. This book will lead you, the yoga aspirant and participant, to that place. It has a lovable and knowledgeable approach, as if the readers were right in my yoga […]
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
“Hotel Rwanda was promoted as a story about ‘the quiet heroism of one man, Paul Rusesabagina, during the Rwandan Genocide.’ I knew Paul Rusesabagina. All the people who survived inside the hotel … knew Paul Rusesabagina. No one among us has ever thought of him as altruistic, let alone heroic. On the contrary, of all […]
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Wolverine Travels Back in Time in Latest for the Sake of the Future
X-Men: Days of Future Past represents the seventh episode in the storied mutant series, and is the third directed by Bryan Singer who also helmed X-Men 1 and 2. This installment is loosely based on the 1981 Marvel Comics (issues #141-142) of the same name, a convoluted tale in which one of the superheroes is […]
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Crews Control
Since retiring from the NFL, Terry Crews has traded in his helmet and cleats to pursue an acting career while also becoming the ultimate family man and fitness enthusiast. Over the past several years, omnipresent Terry has been seen almost everywhere, whether as the pecs-popping pitchman for Old Spice, portraying the overworked dad on “Everybody […]
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Post-Colonial Nigeria Provides Backdrop for Sweeping Romance Saga
Twins Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) and Olanna (Thandie Newton) hail from a well-to-do Nigerian family well-enough connected to send them overseas to college where they majored in business and sociology, respectively. Ironically, while the sisters were acquiring a first-rate Western education in England, the independence movement back home was seeking to sever its ties with […]
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A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose currently stars alongside Denzel Washington in the Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun.” Her outstanding performance has not only earned her critical acclaim but also a Tony award nomination. She recently starred as Whoopi Goldberg’s daughter in the made-for-TV movie, A Day Late and a Dollar Short. […]