Women (and men) across America will be color-coordinating today for National Wear Red Day 2018, which aims to dispel myths surrounding heart diseases. National Wear Red Day is intended to help raise awareness of heart disease in particular among women. Heart disease is often generally associated with men, but cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of […]
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The annual National Association of Music Merchants show, or NAMM, at the Anaheim Convention Center was jam packed with performances, panels, musical instruments and icons. Including the one and only Bootsy Collins of Parliament. Collin’s career rose to prominence with the God Father of Soul, James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with the
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January 25, 2018 (New York, NY)—ESSENCE wants you to grab your squad and plan your trip as it announces its exhilarating initial talent line-up for the 2018 ESSENCE Festival, taking place July 5-8 in New Orleans. The nightly concert series keeps the spotlight on women, featuring electrifying headline performances from Janet Jackson; Mary J. Blige;
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Pictured: House of Panama was featured as one of the entries at the 2017 parade. The 38th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade will step off at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 14, 2018 and march its way down the Embarcadero in Downtown San Diego. This is one of the largest celebrations of its
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Last night, Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège held a private tastemaker dinner at Zuma in New York City honoring Taraji P. Henson for being a master at her craft and celebrating her role in the upcoming action film,PROUD MARY. The dinner was hosted by on-air personality Bevy Smith followed by an Q&A session with Taraji P. Henson discussing her first time
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Hey, 2018, We’re so ready to give it all we got. How about ya’ll? As we usher in a new year every January, which some might argue is the Monday of months, here are a few ways to give it all you got in 2018. Give your body a break from unhealthy food habits. Get
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Happy Kwanzaa! As we begin to celebrate Kwanzaa each day we want to highlight the importance of the 7 core principles of Kwanzaa. Yesterday, we celebrated Umoja, or unity, which is about striving for and maintaining unity in the family, the community, the nation and people. The World Beat Cultural Center in Balboa Park kicked
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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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