LOS ANGELES – New York Times best selling author Eric Jerome Dickey has been named the 2018 Distinguished Lecturer for the 12th annual Leimert Park Village Book Fair (LPVBF). He will be honored at the literary event, which kicks off on Saturday, August 25, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (BHCP), […]
Oprah Winfrey (L) and Ava DuVernay (Photo by Mark Davis/WireImage) Los Angeles – Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay’s short-form film entitled “August 28: A Day in the Life of a People” will make its national television debut on Tuesday, August 28 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on OWN. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Regina
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BET Networks and Beverly Bond, CEO, founder and creator of “BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™”are excited to announce this year’s BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™ Awards taping on Sunday, August 26, 2018 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Prudential Hall in Newark, NJ. The broadcast will premiere on Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 8:00 P.M. ET/PT on BET. The 2018 BLACK GIRLS ROCK!™ celebrants are Academy Award®-nominated
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NASHVILLE, TN – August 17, 2018 – The 2018 Black Music Honors recognized the legacy of Aretha Franklin during the award show taping on Thursday, August 16. Hosted by 2017 Marconi Award Winner Rickey Smiley and singer/actress LeToya Luckett, the annual two-hour television special honors artists and musicians who have influenced and made significant contributions to American music. This year’s honorees were Bobby Brown, Faith
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan, has died today is Switzerland after a short illness. A Ghanian diplomat, Annan rose through the ranks and became the first Black, and served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was 80 years-old. Before becoming U.N. Secretary-General, the humanitarian spent four decades working in
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The wait is finally over. Fall premiere dates for new and returning 2018 television shows are here. Check out some of the shows we’re looking forward to watching up with this fall: September 1: Iyanla: Fix My Life (OWN) Mind Your Business with Mahisha (OWN) September 5: Greenleaf (OWN) September 5: The Bobby Brown Story (BET,
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SILVER SPRING, MD – August 16, 2018 – As the world mourns the tremendous loss of American treasure Aretha Franklin, the music legend, Civil Rights champion and renowned ‘Queen of Soul,’ Urban One announces plans to honor her life, legacy and impact on humanity with special encore presentations of interviews and news specials on TV One, special digital content across Interactive One
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Today, the world mourns the loss of an icon, the undisputed Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. Among the greatest and most influential singers of all time, Franklin died this morning at her home in Detroit surrounded by family and friends. She was 76. According to the Associate Press, Franklin’s cause of death was due to
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Jahana Hayes, a 2016 National Teacher of the Year recipient, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, is on track to become the state’s first black Democrat in congress. After soundly beating Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman, a two-time candidate for lieutenant governor, she will face Republican Manny Santos, former mayor of Meriden,
If you don’t know who Philomena Kwao is, then get into this article and let us introduce you. Back before the body positive movement, before Ashley Graham, Gabbi Fresh, Tess Holiday, and countless other plus size models and influencers, there was Philomena. The thing is, she didn’t know that she was going to be a
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