SILVER SPRING, MD (JULY 1, 2013) – TV One will premiere the second season of the network’s original hit sitcom The Rickey Smiley Show on Friday, July 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET. Loosely inspired by the real-life experiences and antics of lauded comedian, TV, and radio personality Rickey Smiley, the series pulls TV One viewers […]
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— Radio One Founder and Chairperson Cathy Hughes Goes Behind the Scenes and Interviews the All-Star Cast, Including Tony Award Winner Cicely Tyson — (SILVER SPRING, MD) TV One is taking viewers behind the scenes and on-set of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of A Trip to Bountiful in an all-new special, TV
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The independent film Fruitvale Station was privately screened at the BET Experience Film Festival held on June 30th at the Regal Cinemas in Los Angeles, California. I sat in the audience with my daughter, who intensely followed the 2009 incident through friends of hers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and through watching viral
On July 9, on the rooftop of the cosmopolitan chic and California cool, London Hotel in Los Angeles, TV-One held its R&B Divas LA premiere event. R&B Divas LA is the networks latest reality TV spinoff of, “R&B Divas Atlanta.” The Chocolate Voice had a chance to catch up with the LA Diva’s and other red
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”In the Heights,” Directed by Sam Woodhouse, and starring Jai RodriguezIn partnership with The San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts will be playing in San Diego at the REPertory Theatre July 30th-August 25th 2013. “In the Heights” is set in Washington Heights, the vibrant New York neighborhood on the cusp of change. It’s an exuberant universal story
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The sudden crop of black women on television is refreshing, but as writer Ramou Starr points out, all representations of women of color on television aren’t positive. It’s great that women of color have the opportunity to star in a television show that boasts great ratings, ratings that prove that viewers aren’t anti-women of color characters
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The Chocolate Voice was on the scene soaking up the smoldering hot sun enjoying what promises to be one of the hottest, cultural music festival events of the summer. Serving as the pre-show weekend right before the annual 2013 BET Award show, over 100k gathered at L.A,’s Nokia Live to attend concerts, celebrity panels,
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Labeled as a trouble maker throughout the music industry, former En Vogue member Dawn Robinson, is back on the scene and taking her truth to reality TV in her role on the upcoming show, R&B Divas: L.A., a spin-off from R&B Divas Atlanta. During the 1990s, the popular seven-time GRAMMY-nominated R&B group En Vogue took the music industry by
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Paula Deen has enlisted Judy Smith, the crisis-management expert who inspired ABC’s hit drama Scandal. The show features Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, a Washington, D.C., publicist who specializes in media and crisis management for high profile clients and high-ranking officials. Her firm has advised such notable people as actor, Wesley Snipes, Monica Lewinsky, NFL
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“I prefer singers who have the vocal skills to tear down a Church, and then get on the stage and rock with a Rapper.” Lil’ Mo, aka Cynthia Loving says, “I don’t consider myself a Diva.” Well, we’ll just have to see about that when she makes her return to the spotlight in R&B Divas
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