By D. L. White Trump knew Russia was involved…… “Truth crushed to the earth will rise again,” stated the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a speech before a standing room audience in Michigan on March 14, 1968. Continued Dr. King, “No lie can live forever.” Dr. King was not addressing those statements to a […]
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Ensemble cast of “Book of Mormon” Photo credit: Joan Marcus When I first decided to check out “The Book of Mormon,” I heard these words. “It’s offensive. Are you sure you can handle it?” I thought to myself, ‘who me?’ Do I appear to be that much of a prude? I was advised that if
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Time Inc.’s (NYSE:TIME) Essence today announced the official dates for the 2018 Essence Festival® presented by Coca-Cola®, which will take place from July 5 – 8, 2018 in New Orleans, LA. Limited advance tickets for the 24th annual event’s nightly concert series will be available starting August 10 at 10:00am ET. On the heels of a
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Los Angeles – Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films announced today it has partnered with award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“13th,” “A Wrinkle in Time”) on a first-look deal for television and digital media. The first collaboration is DuVernay’s recently announced limited drama series “Central Park Five” for Netflix from Participant Media, Tribeca Productions and Harpo Films.
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Hailed by The New York Times as “the best musical of this century” and the winner of nine Tony Awards®, THE BOOK OF MORMON is the blockbuster Broadway smash from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the Oscar®-winning composer of Disney’s Frozen and Avenue Q, Bobby Lopez. This outrageous musical comedy follows
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BET Networks and Beverly Bond, CEO, Founder and Creator of “BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™”are excited to announce this year’s BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™ Awards taping on Saturday, August 5, 2017 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Prudential Hall in Newark, NJ. The broadcast will premiere on Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 8:00 P.M. ET/PT on BET. The 2017 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™ celebrants
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If you’re looking for non-stop laughter, mixed in with raunchy real talk, and a valuable lesson on the true meaning of friendship, “Girl’s Trip”, is a must see. Girls Trip, directed by Malcolm D. Lee, and producer Will Packer, is a film about four best friends from college that call themselves the Flossy Possy, who decide to reunite
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Writer, producer, actress and media mogul Issa Rae is covering the pages of Complex Magazine fabulously. The 32-year-old slays as Foxy Brown, in the Pam Grier inspired shoot ahead of the season 2 premiere of her breakout HBO series, “Insecure.” “Insecure” follows the journey of creator and executive producer Issa‘s character, Issa Dee, as she navigates
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Oprah Winfrey and Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, the award-winning producers behind such hits as “Being Mary Jane,” “The Game” and “Girlfriends,” have partnered together to create “Love Is ___” a new original one-hour series for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The Akils will create and executive produce the series through their Akil Productions
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela On this day, Rolihlahla Mandela was born. Mandela’s given name Rolihlahla, his schoolteachers were unable to pronounce. As it turns out,
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