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Jazz bassist Nathan East being inducted into the NAMM Foundation’s Hall of Fame

The NAMM Foundation will induct revered engineer -mixologist Ed Cherney and bassist Nathan East into the NAMM TEC Awards Hall of Fame during the 30th Annual NAMMTechnical Excellence & Creativity Awards show, to be held Saturday, January 24th in Anaheim, Calif. Renowned bass player Nathan East, a graduate of UCSD, is a founding member of contemporary jazz quartet Fourplay, and has worked with the legends of music that range

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Black Stuntmen (BSA) Filming Documentary on Hollywood Behind the Scenes

  (Los Angeles, CA) On Friday, October 3, members of the Black Stuntmen’s Association came together for a mini reunion at Source Film Studio’s in Los Angeles.  Willie Harris, BSA President, along with colleague and business partner Alex Brown, Tony Brubaker, Phyllis Ellis, Henry Kingi, Joe Tilque, Oscar-Nominated actor, Elliot Gould and Academy-Award winning actor,

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Attorney General Eric Holder announces resignation

Eric Holder, the nation’s first black chief prosecutor and one of the few remaining original members of President Obama’s cabinet, announced his resignation today. Holder will remain in office until a successor is nominated and confirmed, Obama said at a brief White House announcement. Standing next to Holder, he called his friend’s departure “bittersweet.” “I

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Black Women's Roundtable Public Policy Network Urges NFL to #Getitright

Washington, DC – Expressing absolute agreement with National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell that he “got it wrong,”  the Black Women’s Roundtable Public Policy Network (BWR) held a press conference today to urge the commissioner to take swift action to “get it right,” starting by appointing black women experts in domestic violence and sexual assault to

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Radio One partners with National Urban League: Put Our Children 1st education initiative

                SILVER SPRING, MD / SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 – One Solution, the creative and branded entertainment arm of Radio One, has entered into a new partnership with the National Urban League in support of the organization’s Put Our Children 1st education initiative. As a heated national debate has emerged around Common

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UC Offers New Assistance Program for Middle Class Families

Story by:  UC Newsroom, News Report, Nicole Freeling Thousands of UC students soon could receive a check to offset some of their college-related expenses through a new state program aimed at assisting middle-class families.UC officials estimate that roughly 24,000 UC students qualify for funding through California’s Middle Class Scholarship, which was approved by the legislature earlier this

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Sony Pictures "Annie" adopts turnaround arts in support of struggling schools

  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 10, 2014 – In advance of the release of the highly anticipated motion picture Annie, in theaters on December 19, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment is helping to support Turnaround Arts, a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.  Turnaround Arts works with local program partners to provide

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