Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Florida Avenue Baptist Church (FABC), in partnership with Faces of Our Children (FOOC), will feature a rare musical talent to raise awareness of a not so rare disease – sickle cell anemia. Urban jazz harmonicist Frédéric Yonnet headlines “Mo’ Than Jazz” Sickle Cell Awareness Benefit Concert on Nov. 20 at 4 p.m. Yonnet, who has […]

Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, is now a rap sensation. According to the Associated Press, the 65-year-old recently released a rap song and video that has taken the East African nation by storm. The single, entitled “U Want Another Rap,” is receiving heavy rotation in clubs and on the radio and even has spawned a […]

The Bowie State University Theatre in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts has several awe-inspiring performances scheduled for the year including an upcoming production, Faces: Shades of Survival, from Nov. 11-14. Written and directed by local playwright Odell B. Ruffin of Greenbelt, Md., the performance illustrates the struggles that women face when battling breast […]

Born in London on Nov. 6, 1972, Thandie Newton is a consummate actress associated with riveting performances in everything from Beloved to Besieged to Crash. She will soon be seen in the independent film Vanishing on 7th Street, in which she stars opposite Hayden Christensen and John Leguizamo, and she is currently shooting the psychological […]

Kobe Bryant, SpongeBob and Lil Wayne have all become Fatheads – vibrant, life-sized graphics sure to delight any fan. Launched in 2005, Fathead is a unique brand of sports and entertainment graphics. The Detroit-based company transforms licensed images of sports teams, athletes, cartoon characters and music artists into immense, high definition wall displays. Customers can […]

Winning choirs representing 14 cities around the country will come together for an unforgettable night of joy and praise as they vie for the title of “The Best Church Choir in America” at Verizon’s How Sweet the Sound grand finale. The event will be held at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13. […]

Former President George W. Bush said in a recent NBC interview that the lowest point of his life was when rapper Kanye West made statements in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that painted Bush as a racist. West’s clearly agitated statement five years ago that “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people,” hit a sore […]

Prosecutors have dropped misdemeanor assault charges against R&B singer and Baltimore native Mario. The allegations stemmed from an alleged domestic dispute between the singer and his mother last month. Mario, whose full name is Mario Dewar Barrett, was charged with second degree assault after his mother, Shawntia Hardaway, told Baltimore City police that he shoved […]

Author Toni Morrison, celebrated for her novels “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was inducted into the elite Legion of Honor Society on Nov. 3 at the Paris Ministry in France. According to the Associated Press, France’s Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterrand pinned the 79-year-old writer with a red and gold medal, officially marking her as […]

After touching the hearts of many with her story, 11-year-old Broadway actress Shannon Tavarez died of leukemia on Nov. 1, according to the Associated Press. Tavarez, who played Nala in the Broadway hit “The Lion King,” died at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park in Long Island. The Queens, N.Y. native suffered from […]

A collection of talented filmmakers and their unique depictions of deaf culture and topics will vie in the upcoming WORLDEAF Cinema Festival’s filmmaker award competition taking place at Gallaudet University on Nov. 4-7. Seventeen films from seven different countries were chosen to participate in the festival among a staggering 173 submissions. The films, which range […]

She’s etched in our collective memory as the consummate businesswoman – a stunningly beautiful, multilingual lawyer with a Brooklyn Heights brownstone and perfectly coiffed hair to boot. Even more so, Phylicia Rashad has come to embody the ideal on-screen mother, whose tough love endures 18 years after the Cosbys became ‘80s TV nostalgia. Standing last […]