DJ, singer and actress Solange Knowles is celebrating creative women with her new Puma collection. Solange Knowles (left), and (right) a photo from her new PUMA campaign, “Word to the Woman”. (Photo: AP/Charles Sykes/MediaPunch and PUMA) Knowles recently unveiled her third collaboration with Puma, featuring footwear entitled “Word to the Woman,” according to Knowles’ website. […]
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Letter To A Generation: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Realistic Definition of Freedom in America
To know the truth about the incredible battle black people in America fight to survive and thrive, you must read Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In a graphic, eloquent and passionate missive to his teenage son, Coates writes about white America, he calls them The Dreamers, and their attitude toward black people today. […]
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‘Empire’ Co-Creator Lee Daniels to Create Series Pilot for Fox
In this May 13, 2015 file photo, Lee Daniels attends the The Paley Center Tribute to African-American Achievements in Television in New York. Daniels, co-creator of Foxs mega-hit Empire, is developing a new pilot for the network about three young women trying to make it in the music business. News of this prospective music drama, […]
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Dre Says He’ll Donate Royalties from New Album to Compton
In this Nov. 5, 2014 file photo, Dr. Dre attends the WSJ. Magazine 2014 Innovator Awards at MoMA in New York. Dr. Dre says he will donate his royalties from his new album to the city of Compton for a new performing arts facility. Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre” will be released Friday, Aug. […]
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Creator Says Mariah Carey to Guest-Star on TV’s ‘Empire’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariah Carey is charting course for a new “Empire” with a guest appearance on the popular Fox television series, the show’s creator announced Wednesday. “Empire” creator Lee Daniels announced the Grammy winner would appear on his show while introducing Carey at a ceremony where she received a star on the Hollywood […]
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Rapper Busta Rhymes Charged with Assault in Manhattan Gym Fight
In this Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, rapper Busta Rhymes attends the premiere of “Nas: Time Is Illmatic” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Rhymes was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, following a dispute at a gym in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Busta Rhymes […]
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Robert Ri’chard Talks ‘Chocolate City’
Chocolate City, a film written and directed by Jean Claude La Marre, chronicles the life of a young man named Michael who goes from being a struggling college student to a successful male stripper. Michael meets the owner of a male strip club who persuades him to perform in amateur night at the club. Michael […]
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Black Answer to ‘Magic Mike’ Released on DVD
Cash-strapped Katherine McCoy (Vivica A. Fox) is holding down a couple of jobs to make ends meet while praying that her sons stay on the straight and narrow path until they can make it out of the ghetto. Though grown, both boys still live at home; yet neither is helping their struggling single mom much, […]
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New Jersey Teen, Shanice Williams to star as Dorothy in NBC’s ‘The Wiz Live!’
Shanice Williams has been cast in the role as Dorothy in The Wiz Live! is set to air on NBC on Dec. 3. (Photo by: Jeff Riedel/NBC) NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has found the young woman who will ease on down the yellow brick road. The network Wednesday unveiled newcomer Shanice Williams from New […]
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Patriarch of Musical Jackson Family Leaves Brazil Hospital
In this Friday, May 23, 2014 file photo, Joe Jackson arrives for the screening of Sils Maria at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. A Brazilian hospital says Joe Jackson — the father of the late Michael Jackson and the patriarch of the musical family — suffered a stroke while visiting the South […]
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Hearse with Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Body Arrives at Cemetery
Carolyn Whigham leads Bobbi Kristina Brown’s casket to a gold colored hearse after a service at Whigham funeral home in Newark, N.J., early Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. Bobbi Kristina, the only child of Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died in hospice care July 26, about six months after she was found face-down and […]
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Bobby Brown, Family Mourn the Late Bobbi Kristina at Funeral
R&B singer Bobby Brown leaves a funeral service for his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, in Alpharetta, Ga. Bobbi Kristina, the only child of Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died in hospice care July 26, about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her […]
