Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

In this Sept. 27, 2008 photo released by Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis, left, performs with bassist Carlos Henriquez in New York. arsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is opening its new season at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx borough of New York. (Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center via […]

In this Aug. 22, 2012 file photo, B.B. King performs at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming in Indianola, Miss. A judge in Las Vegas is due to hear a bid by some of B.B. King’s heirs to obtain the late blues icon’s medical records. A lawyer for King’s estate, Brent Bryson, has called the […]

(AP Photo and Courtesy screengrab abc6 WATE news report) WILBERFORCE, Ohio (AP) — Central State University in Wilberforce, an historically Black college in southwest Ohio says it is permanently removing the name of comedian Bill Cosby from its communications building. In a statement Friday, Central State says the Camille O. & William H. Cosby Communications […]

A group of Black Panthers at a Free Huey rally in Oakland, 1968. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Shames) The late Stokely Carmichael is famous for coining the phrase “Black power!” What he might not be as well remembered for is founding the Black Panthers. Frustrated by the tortoise-paced progress of the Civil Rights movement and […]

Faith-based film”War Room”. LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Straight Outta Compton” ceded its three-week reign at the top of the box office to the faith-based “War Room,” which climbed to No. 1 with $13.4 million over a sleepy Labor Day weekend. The Robert Redford buddy dramedy “A Walk In The Woods,” based on Bill Bryson’s Appalachian […]

In this Aug. 25, 2014 file photo, Vanessa Williams arrives at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. The Miss America Organization, Dick Clark Productions and the ABC television network announced Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, that they are bringing back the actress and singer to serve as head judge for the 2016 competition. […]

This Feb. 8, 2015, file photo shows Beyonce performing at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Beyoncé, who turned 34 on Friday, headlined the first night of her husband’s two-day music festival held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Though Jay Z didn’t join the pop diva onstage Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015, […]

(Updated 9/6/2015) ATLANTA (AP) — Filmmaker Tyler Perry paid homage to the late Bobbi Kristina Brown through a tribute video that was shown during her private funeral in August. Perry wrote in a Facebook post Friday that the Houston estate asked him to share the 3-minute plus video featuring the 22-year-old daughter of the late […]

Writer and activist Maya Angelou. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — The art collection of celebrated writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is heading to auction this month. Among the highlights of the Sept. 15 Swann Galleries sale is a painted story quilt that hung in Angelou’s Harlem home. It’s a work by African-American artist Faith […]

In this April 11, 2015 file photo, Jennifer Hudson performs at the TV Land Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hudson and Broadway is a match made in musical heaven and the two finally will be together in the revival of “The Color Purple.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — The new Broadway […]

This photo shows the educational video games, “Playing History: The Plague,” “Playing History: Slave Trade” and “Playing History: Vikings,” on a computer screen Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Los Angeles. The creator of “Playing History: Slave Trade” removed a level which featured black slave characters being dropped into a ship similar to the video game […]

Alena Pitts (left) stars with T.C. Stallings (right) in ‘War Room. (Courtesy Photo) In 2011, Pastor Alex Kendrick produced, directed, wrote and starred in Courageous, a very compelling, action-oriented, faith-based drama. With War Room, he’s opted to play only a supporting role in the flick, thereby freeing himself to focus more on his duties behind […]