Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Carver Randle, a long time friend and attorney addresses mourners during the funeral service for blues legend Riley “B.B.” King at Bell Grove M.B. Church in Indianola, Miss., Saturday, May 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool) INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people filled a church in the Mississippi Delta for the funeral Saturday […]

In this April 9, 2014 file photo, actor Tracy Morgan attends the FX Networks Upfront premiere screening of “Fargo” at the SVA Theater in New York. Actor-comedian Morgan has settled his lawsuit against Wal-Mart over a New Jersey highway crash that killed one man and left Morgan and two friends seriously injured. A filing in […]

Julia Pollard is the newly elected national President of The Society, Incorporated (The Society), a pre-eminent women’s organization focused on developing and advancing talented youth in The Arts. As the organization’s 7th national President, Julia has been an active member of The Society for nearly three decades within the Washington, DC Chapter. Most recently she […]

In his book, Harvey motivates his readers to realize their gift is a calling and provides tools for how to discover and embrace their gifts. (Photo by Natascha Saunders) By Natascha F. Saunders, Special to the AFRO Aspiring entrepreneurs, speakers and community members from Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia gathered at Hyatt Regency […]

Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE, will hold its exhibition, Climate and Actions: Storytelling with Saris, and series of workshops addressing climate change by artist and activist Monica Jahan Bose on May 30 and June 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This site-specific installation is a cumulative exhibition of printmaking on saris […]

In a Sunday Jan. 13, 2013 file photo, actor Denzel Washington, right, and his daughter Olivia Washington arrive at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Olivia Washington, one of Denzel Washington’s four children, has spent the spring od 2015 playing the shy and damaged Laura in […]

In this June 20, 2008 file photo, musician B.B. King performs at the opening night of the 87th season of the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. King died Thursday, May 14, 2015, peacefully in his sleep at his Las Vegas home at age 89, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File) LAS VEGAS (AP) — […]

In this Sept. 2, 2012 file photo, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave performs at the 33rd annual Detroit Jazz Festival, in Detroit. Belgrave, a jazz trumpeter who graced stages and studios with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Cocker and Motown artists galore, died Sunday, May 24, 2015. He was 78. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Ricardo Thomas, […]

In this photo taken April 30, 2008, blues great B.B. King performs at the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville, Fla. King died peacefully in his sleep late, Thursday, May 14, 2015, at his Las Vegas home, his lawyer said. He was 89. (Daron Dean/The St. Augustine Record via AP) LAS VEGAS (AP) — A standing ovation […]

In this Aug. 22, 2012 photograph, the then 86-year-old B.B. King thrills a crowd of several hundred people at the annual B.B. King Homecoming, a free concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager many years ago, in Indianola, Miss. Festival organizers said this year’s festival was to […]

This undated booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center shows William Drayton Jr. aka Flavor Flav after his arrest in Las Vegas. Authorities say they arrested the entertainer shortly after midnight on Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Las Vegas for driving under the influence, speeding, possessing less than an ounce of marijuana and […]