After reading on Upworthy about the 21-year-old artist, from a small town in Spain, who’s brilliant idea is covering up stretch marks with paint,e just had to share. Cinta Tort Cartró, known as Zinteta online, says that she has always loved creating art. One day while experimenting with paints in her apartment, she decided to […]
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Taraji P. Henson rocked a shorter ‘do and a sexy cut-down-to-there dress as she hosted BET’s “Black Girls Rock” in New York City. In an interview with “Extra” who caught up with the “Empire” star, she dished on her new look and the fourth season of her hit FOX series “Empire,” about which she dropped the
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Our congrats go out to Briana Scurry, who has been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2017, making her the first African American elected to the prestigious honor. Selected on the Player Ballot system, details about the induction ceremony will be released at a later date. Growing up playing soccer in
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Shout out to CYMI, Netflix who launched an incredibly powerful new campaign called #FirstTimeISawMe – about the importance of representation in entertainment. Let’s face it, representation in entertainment matters. Seriously. Although, progress has been made over the years, diversity, inclusion and seeing more people of color on film and television screens is a stretch.When
Starting in 2018, the state of Chicago will annually observe “Barack Obama Day.” That’s right, on Friday Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed “Barack Obama Day” into law giving former President Barack Obama, his own state holiday, NBC Chicago reports. The holiday will be observed throughout the State as a day set apart to honor
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(Chicago, Il ) Imagine waiting to make your transition in hospice care, and telling the nurse that you’re having trouble swallowing and asks— would it be possible to have some ice cream? The response comes off as cold and blunt, ‘No, we don’t have any ice cream.’ Sadly, denial of simple requests like this
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Pennsylvania native Kaye Oyegun, is the latest addition to the Angela Davis biopic, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Graduating from the University of Pittsburg and the University of Southern California MFA program, Kay Oyegun is known for her writing on the powerful and unapologetic hit television series, QUEEN SUGAR, and the beloved
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Executive producer Jon Silk along with executive Rishi Rajani will oversee the development of comic series Black. The premise of the series from Black Mask Studios is about a nation where only African-Americans possess superpowers. According to a report on Deadline, the comic series has been optioned for a feature by the Jeff Robinov-founded company. Creative team Silk
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Today, legendary prolific writer and activist James Baldwin would have been 93. The pioneering author known for his novels “Native Son”, “Another Country,” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, and his essay collections “Notes of a Native Son” and “The Fire Next Time,” was born in New York on August 2, in 1924.
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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
