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Only Light: African American Filmmakers Wins Audience Award at Diversity in Cannes

Only Light, a short film written and directed by African American Female Filmakers and, USC grad’s Thembi Banks and Evita Castine, wins the Audience Award at the 2015 Diversity in Cannes Film Festival. Only Light tackles the harrowing topic of the international sex-trafficking industry. The film follows a young girl who is kidnapped from the

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Walgreens launches in Southeast San Diego: 1st drugstore in the history of city's racially diverse community

(San Diego, CA) This past Saturday, residents of southeastern San Diego’s Diamond Neighborhoods, City of San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, District 4 Councilmember Myrtle Cole and other community leaders joined officials from the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the long awaited grand opening of Walgreens near Market Street and

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Bessie: Bessie Smith Biopic Starring Queen Latifah Airs Saturday on HBO

Check out the trailer for the upcoming Bessie Smith biopic, starring Queen Latifah, before it premieres on HBO tomorrow, May 16. The film focuses on Bessie Smith’s personal and professional lives during which she became one of the most most successful recording artists of the era, before dying in a car accident at the age of 43 in

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Legendary The 5th Dimension, Harpist Mariea Antoinette perform at Rotary International Festival of Music & Art

VISTA, CA –On Saturday, May 9, 2015, the award winning The  5th Dimension and jazzy soulful harpist, Mariea Antoinette performed for the first fundraiser hosted by the Rotary Club of Vista, the International Festival of Music and Arts. The benefit concert held at the Moonlight Amphitheater at the Brengle Terrace Park, raised funds for the

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Photo: Private screening of PITCH PERFECT 2 hosted by Ester Dean & Hana Mae

Last night, Ester Dean and Hana Mae Lee, stars of the Universal Pictures’ film PITCH PERFECT 2, held a private screening of the anticipated sequel and after party here in Los Angeles. Music celebrities and tastemakers were in attendance including,  Academy Award-Winning actor, Jamie Foxx. Ester Dean and Hana Mae Lee introduced the film as guests

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PHOTO: Mother & Daughter Beauty's Zoe Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, fiercely Gorgeous on MAD MAX Red Carpet

Like mother, like daughter.  Beauty truly does run in this family. Check out the fiercely gorgeous  Zoe Kravitz and mom Lisa Bonet, work the red carpet last night at the MAD MAX: FURY ROAD premiere at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. AD MAX: FURY ROAD in theaters on 5.15.15 in 3D!!        

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TV One's News One Now Will Broadcast Two-Hour Primetime Special Exploring Baltimore and Beyond

WASHINGTON, D.C. – TV One’s News One Now – the first morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, entertainment, sports, and culture from an explicitly African American perspective – will broadcast its first-ever town hall meeting, “State of Emergency: Baltimore and Beyond A News One Now Town Hall Meeting,”

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