Photo: The owner of Chicken Charlie’s serving up all things chicken and beef including, Kool Aid Hotwings, while chatting it up with a fairgoer. Credit: Gwen Pierce San Diego — It’s that time of year again folks: “The Wild Wild West” is headed for Del Mar fairgrounds for the 2017 San Diego County Fair. For local’s, it’s the […]
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 20: Lupita Nyong’o and Ava DuVernay pose with an award during The 76th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani, Wall Street on May 20, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images for Peabody) This past Saturday, May 20th Director and screenwriter Ava DuVernay won her very first
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Yes, 2017 Sundance Film Festival winner ‘STEP’ looks like a film that will have us all emotionally messed up, but, in a good way! Due out in theaters this summer, Fox Searchlights pictures “STEP,’ focuses on three senior members of a step team, known as the “Lethal Ladies” of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women.”
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Ira Aldridge Repertory Players in collaboration with San Diego Continuing Education Division, Educational Cultural Complex proudly presents the San Diego premiere of Christina Anderson’s BLACKTOP SKY. ABOUT THE SHOW: After witnessing the police harass a fellow resident of the housing projects, 18-year-old Ida (Tina Machele Brown) befriends Klass (Wrekless Watson), an unpredictable young homeless
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African American Harvard Student Makes History by Submitting Rap Album For Thesis Harvard student will graduate with one of the highest accolades after submitting a 10 track rap album for his final thesis. What’s so amazing about this story is that, never in the history of the Ivy League institution has this been done. The
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Photo: Fashion Designers Lili Klu of LK Boutik and Tanya Jenkins of New eshe collaborating partners of the event. This past Saturday in San Diego, LK Fashions kicked off summer with a stylish splash! The San Diego based African clothing designer held a multicultural, festive poolside fashion show at the Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club &
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ESSENCE Festival® announced today that chart topping 90’s R&B quartet XSCAPE will kickoff its comeback tour at the Festival, for the group’s first full live show in over 15 years. The group is slated to perform on Sunday, July 2 – a night headlined by Festival first-timer Chance the Rapper, along with Master P, Solange and more
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While out and about during our Chocolate Travels, and celebrating a milestone birthday, we made it a point to visit the award-winning winery, Rideau Vineyards in Solvang, CA. Nestled in the hills of the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, Rideau Vineyard is an extraordinarily relaxing vineyard for wine tasting and dining. Although, California has thousands of relaxing wineries
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In an interview with Fast Company, Donald Glover the brilliant mind behind FX’s series Atlanta, was listed as one of the 100 most creative people in business. Glover has an impressive list of upcoming projects including playing Calrissian in Han S0lo prequel (due next summer), voice of Simba in the upcoming film, The Lion King, and he
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(San Diego, CA )The African American Student Success Coalition (AASSC) will hold a Press Conference on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. outside of the Eugene Brucker Education Center located at 4100 Normal Street, to address the lack of accountability for the educational outcomes of African American Students in San Diego Unified School
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