September 2020

San Diego’s Black Owned Maya’s Cookies featured in Emmy Nominee Gift Bags

San Diego, Calif. – Sept. 17, 2020 –Maya’s Cookies has been selected by PETA to be featured in its vegan snackbag given to celebrities ahead of this Sunday’s star-studded event. Maya Madsen, Founder of Maya’s Cookies, said, “I’m pinching myself that our delicious cookies will be part of the Distinctive Assets “Best of Quarantainment” Nominee Gift Bags honoring […]

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National Black Voter Day: OWN partners with NowThis to create powerful content

With just under 45 days left until a pivotal election, where the Black voters stand to make a tremendous impact, NowThis and OWN launched their first ever formal content partnership to share stories from Black women voters across the country and to spotlight changemakers who are helping their communities become more civically engaged.   A part of the “OWN Your Vote” campaign,

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OWN Expands Unscripted Programming to Two Nights & Debut Two New Series

 OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today that beginning in October the network will expand its successful unscripted programming block to two nights, on Fridays and Saturdays, and will debut two new series along with new seasons of its popular hits. Friday nights will begin October 23 with two series from record-breaking filmmaker Will Packer and

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SNL Adds Two Black Featured Players for Upcoming 46th Season

SNL increases diversity by adding three featured players to its cast for the upcoming 46th season including newcomer Punkie Johnson (“Space Force,” “Corporate,” “Adam Ruins Everything”). In addition, Ego Nwodim was promoted to main cast member for the new season. In addition to, New York Times bestselling author and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Jim Carrey to take on

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Big Sean Scores Third Consecutive #1 Album DETROIT

Grammy®-nominated, multi-platinum artist Big Sean tops the Billboard charts this week as his new album, DETROIT 2, enters at #1 across-the-board on the Billboard 200, R&B/hip-hop, and Rap charts. Released September 4th via G.O.O.D. Music/ Def Jam Recordings, the album marks Sean’s fifth consecutive #1 debut on the Rap chart, his fourth consecutive #1 debut on the R&B/hip-hop chart, and third consecutive #1

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Digital design artist uses his talent to help heal community on virtual platform

During the Pandemic Lester McCurtis is using his talents to help heal the community. He’s a Digital design artist and will display his original Contemporary abstract art on a virtual platform (Zoom.us). Recent studies have shown art displays can be therapeutic, and soothing to calm the nerves, anxiety, depression, dementia, cancer and many other health

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CLEO TV Announce Season Two of New Soul Kitchen

CLEO TV announced today the season two of New Soul Kitchen returns with a double-header on Saturday, October 3 at 9p.m. ET / 8C and 9:30p.m. /8:30C.  Chef Jernard Wells returns to prepare even more robust recipes in the series’ extended, 30-minute format. Acclaimed chef, cookbook author, and family man Chef Jernard is not only bringing his arsenal of down-home dishes to viewers, but is teaming up with

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OWN Licenses Daytime Talk Show ‘Tamron Hall’

LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today that it has licensed the award-winning talk show “Tamron Hall” from Disney Media Networks. OWN will premiere the second run of “Tamron Hall” weekdays in multiple time periods beginning Monday, September 14, the same day that season two of the show premieres nationally in first-run syndication. OWN will air new

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TV One’s Uncensored Kick’s off Season Three: Larenz Tate, Eve, Debbie Allen and more…

TV One’s original auto-biographical series UNCENSORED resumes for its third season with premiere episodes debuting on Sunday, September 6 at 10 P.M. ET/9C. The edgy docu-series explores the private lives of some of today’s most notable personalities including actor Larenz Tate, singer/actorTyrese, rapper/TV personality Eve, producer/TV personality Yandy Smith-Harris, actor Omari Hardwick, actress/singer Jenifer Lewis and actress/choreographer/director Debbie Allen. This season also includes five bonus episodes including UNCENSORED: Black Girl Magic, UNCENSORED: Scandals, UNCENSORED:

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