Georgia Gilmore used her cooking skills to feed the civil rights movement and to form the Club from Nowhere — deliberately named so that funds couldn’t be easily tracked and members could answer honestly that the money they had came from “nowhere.” With Martin Luther King Day celebrations
Via press release today, January 3, it was announced that the 50th NAACP Image Awards will air LIVE on TV One, a division of Urban One, Inc., on March 30, 2019. For the first time ever, the telecast will take place from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. The announcement
In a groundbreaking digital experience Equal Justice Initiative in partnership with Google, produced the Lynching in America site content including EJI’s in-depth research and data with the stories of lynching victims, as told by their descendants. Through six audio stories, and a short documentary, Uprooted, you
Former ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey — the exec who axes Rosanne Barr and developed hits such as Scandal and The Good Doctor — has landed a big new job at Netflix. As reported on the website Vulture, Dungey is joining the streaming giant as vice-president
Sadly we’ve lost another music legend, the incomparable Nancy Wilson. Nancy Wilson February 20, 1937 - December 13, 2018 The Grammy-winning artist with a gift for storytelling died Dec. 13 at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81. Her manager and publicist Devra
African American Firsts -Tia Norfleet, Nascar Racing Star (L) and Brehanna Daniels, Pit Crew Member. With the upcoming release of BUMBLEBEE (Releasing December 21, 2018) local female influencers gathered at West Coast Customs (Pimp My Ride) for a special Glammed Out Auto Clinic taught by Tia Norfleet, the first African American Female NASCAR Racing
For the first time ever, brother/sister duo Jake and Jazz Smollett are inviting cameras to follow them for this exclusive LIVING BY DESIGN HOLIDAY SPECIAL. The pair will recreate down home recipes and make kicked up cocktails with celebrity guest, Grammy-nominated singer Ledisi. To really
Oprah Winfrey sits down with actress, activist and New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Union and her husband NBA superstar Dwyane Wade for a conversation about their unique path to parenthood in an all-new special entitled, “Oprah at Home with Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade & Their New Baby” airing Saturday,
We watched plenty of great films and television shows this year. And, we couldn't be more excited for the 2019 Golden Globe nominations! Although, the film Black Panther starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o, scored three nominations—Best Motion Picture (Drama),
Waitress the Musical. Photo by: Joan Marcus This week through December 2, Broadway San Diego’s latest Tony nominated musical to hit the stage is “Waitress.” Based on the film written by Adrienne Shelly, and starring Kerry Russell, the story centers on a waitress in an abusive marriage