Let’s just get this out of the way: It’s about time the Marvel Comics world added more people of color superheroes. Wouldn’t you agree? Now that Netflix has one of the highest rated original series hence; The acclaimed Marvel’s Luke Cage, the powers that be in the entertainment world appears to have taken notice and […]
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Stephen Hill, President of Programming at BET is stepping down after 18 years with the company on March 31, 2017. Connie Orlando, SVP Specials, Music Programming, and News, will serve as the interim Head of Programming, according to chairman and CEO Debra Lee, who broke the news to staff at the Viacom-owned network via memo
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SAN DIEGO —San Diego director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg makes her Globe debut to helm the award-winning drama, Skeleton Crew, which is presented in association with San Diego’s MOXIE Theatre, where Turner Sonnenberg is Founding Artistic Director. Times are tough in 2008 Detroit, but there’s still one working auto plant. The long hours and demanding shifts have turned the line workers
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LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today it has ordered two new docu-series that will join its popular Saturday night programming line-up later this year. “Released,” produced by Lucky 8 TV, features intimate, first-person narratives of formerly incarcerated men and women as they walk out of the prison doors for the first
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Tamala Mann, Photo Credit: Earl Gibson, Courtesy of Central City Productions/TV One March 26, 2017 – Central City Productions hosted the 32nd Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards last night in Las Vegas, NV at The Orleans Arena. The annual show, hailed as an “epic night in gospel music,” was hosted by Erica Campbell and Anthony Brown. The night included performances by Tamela Mann, Shirley
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#MissingDCGirls is trending on social media out of frustration over lack of big media coverage for missing Black and Latina Girls. As of March 23, 2017, over a dozen Washington D.C. teens are missing from the nation’s capital, police in that city say. Finally, the issue has generated massive attention on social media as people are outraged that the
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You guessed it, media mogul Oprah Winfrey is one of 10 blacks who made the FORBES list of the World’s billionaires. Perhaps she should run for president of the United States of America. OPRAH! OPRAH! Out of 2,043 people who made the list, there are three black females,Winfrey, director/producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, magazine publisher, has a reported net
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Photo credit: Facebook We can never get enough of hearing that sweet#BlackGirlMagic news. Keep it coming. Speaking of BGM, Neurosurgery resident Nancy Abu Bohnsrah has made medical history as, the first black woman to be trained as a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins medical school. According to CNN, in the 30 years that Johns Hopkins
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American playwright, and poet Ntozake Shange Perhaps best known for her first play, “Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow Is Enuf” which was later turned into a feature film by Tyler Perry, Ntozake Shange, is a playwright, poet and is a self proclaimed feminist. Colored Girls first gained notoriety in 1974 as an electrifying
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In honor of World Poetry Day, we’re honored to share with you the poem, “Challenge Me,” written poetically by Theodore Mosley. We find it fitting to publish “Challenge Me” in honor of Women’s History Month and feature a photo of a woman who creatively and uniquely challenges herself artistically through movement. In the photograph taken by Ashley Walker, Fatima
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