Many of us have never heard the name of a well known African American successful numbers runner throughout 1920s Harlem, by the name of Stephanie St. Clair. Well, according to a report on Deadline, director Tim Story felt it was about time for this woman’s story to be told. Story and Zero Gravity Management are […]
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As Trump reverses himself on Afghanistan and the USA sends more troops to this financially and ethically decrepit “hole”, the true facts of the “problem” stand out in the statistics. Seventy percent of the population is rural with an annual income of just $410—repeat–annually. Averaged, the annual income of its citizens is just $1880 per
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Black Girls Rock! airs tonight. And, we can hardly wait! The well deserved honorees, fierce fashions, fiery performances, inspirational speeches, all of it. Tonights theme for the positive and uplifting awards program honoring girls and women is, Black Love is Revolutionary. In an interview with CBS New York City Views, Beverly Bond, founder and executive
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Today the world has lost legendary comedian, civil rights crusader Dick Gregory, who died earlier today. He was 84. His family announced the news on his public social media pages. “It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that their father, comedic legend and civil rights activist Mr. Dick Gregory departed this
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Celebrating 30 years, The Long Beach Jazz Festival closed out the 3-day summer concert series featuring jazz legends combined with some of finest musicians in the industry. Fans appeared to have enjoyed the week-end long festival of live music, as they soaked up the sun during the highly anticipated outdoor event held at picturesque
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How many of y’all out there saw Girls Trip more than once? We did, and will most likely see it again. Thanks to all of us out there who purchased tickets to see the film considered a “box office anomaly according to Deadline, beating out this year comedy competition, has surpassed the $100 million mark
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today a new one-hour drama series from Tarell Alvin McCraney, co-writer and executive producer of the Academy Award-winning Best Picture “Moonlight.” Marking his first television series, McCraney will create, write and executive produce the new coming-of-age drama, from Warner Horizon Scripted Television, with Mike Kelley and Melissa Loy (“Revenge”/”Swingtown”) serving as executive producers under their Page Fright production banner alongside Michael B. Jordan (“Creed”) who is also joining as executive producer via his Outlier Productions. Haunted by the death of his closest friend,
LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will premiere the eight-episode docu-series, “Released,” which features intimate, first-person narratives of formerly incarcerated men and women as they walk out of the prison doors for the first time to restart their lives. The series premieres on Saturday, September 30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT after an all new episode
I am a strong advocate of the concept of free speech. However, allowing Nazis and neo-Nazis the freedom spew their racist language and create discord (and death) in our country is beyond the pale of “expressing oneself”. The world fought WWII because of Nazi hate speech that claimed the lives of 60 million people (some
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At age 26, Atlanta native Ashley Derby became the youngest franchisee in the country. Now, at age 32, she’s become one of the youngest Chick-Fil-A franchisee owners, one of the fastest growing chains in the United States. According to Derby’s LinkedIn page, her career at the fast food restaurant in 2002 as a team member. The goal
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