Most people enjoy the festive look and feel of the holiday season. Live Christmas trees decorated with colorful ornaments, draped in garland surrounded by a string of electric lights, helps to make the season bright, as the words to the famous “Christmas Song” goes. Now that we have that visual in our heads, it’s very […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA (November 20, 2017) – The nominees for the 49th NAACP Image Awards were announced today with Netflix and OWN leading the nominations in the television categories with 23 nominations and 17 nominations, respectively. In the recording category, RCA Records leads with 12 nominations, followed by Capitol Records with 6 nominations and
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SAN FRANCISCO – November 11, 2017- Actor and Technology Entrepreneur, Jesse Williams, announced the release of his first mobile game app, BLeBRiTY. The announcement was made at Blavity’s AFROTECH Conference, the largest African-American tech conference in Silicon Valley. Comedy and color run deep in this exciting new game now available exclusively from the App
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Taste of Wine By Frank Mangio A Few Ways to Celebrate It seems like the corks are flying off the bottles more than normal this month and there’s good reason. It’s California Wine Month and the festivals and wine dinners are adding up. Wine is big business in California with over 4,000 wineries in 138
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Seeing the response from the audience after a screening in San Diego, of the film “Step,” is exactly why our stories matter. Although San Diego, is not Baltimore, or L.A. And, by that I mean not a large Black population, we go through the same struggles, especially when communities within our city is depicted as
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, will premiere the four episode docu-series, “Black Love,” from filmmakers Codie Elaine Oliver and Tommy Oliver (“The Perfect Guy”) and Confluential Films, on Tuesday, August 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (after an all new episode of Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots” at 9 p.m. ET/PT). The series
As I prepared to write this post, I messaged one of my friends and asked the question: ‘Do you swim?’ Her answer, “Yeah baby, I’m from Texas.” I laughed when I read her matter of fact answer because, that’s my exact same answer, being from Arizona! Ya’ll Texans and Arizonans know what we’re talking about. A person could
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We’re loving’ this cover of EBONY magazine with one of our favorite rappers on the cover, Chance The Rapper. The world has fallen head over hills in love with this 24 year old who certainly has presidential tendencies but, makes in clear in the article that he has no intentions what so ever to run for president.
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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
Pictured: Nancy and great-grandson Torian in 2004. Growing up I only had one living grandmother. That was my paternal grandmother, Nancy. As we come upon mother’s day, memories of growing up with her in my life has made me more grateful to have had such a strong presence in my life. Allow me to
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