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Atlanta: Rashaun Ali, Cortez Bryant and More Attend HBCU Week Foundation Festivities

On Thursday, October 6th and Friday, October 7th,  The HBCU Week Foundation, Inc. held its annual HBCU Week of festivities for the first time in Atlanta, GA.  These packed-out events brought out corporate executives, philanthropic sponsors, celebrities and aspiring HBCU college students to help raise awareness around the organization’s powerful mission of providing scholarship dollars […]

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Emmy-Award Winners Jamie Foxx & Tommy Lee Jones Star in THE BURIAL Now showing in Select Theaters

Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral homeowner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx) to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in

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Note to the Supreme Court & Congress: Restore The Voting Rights Act Now!

Federal Court Denies Alabama Request for Redistricting By DL White A three Judge panel recently denied Alabama’s GOP Legislature’s request to pause the decision   struck down previously for their new congressional redistricting.  Unrelentless, Alabama submitted a new map after the Supreme Court “blocked the previous map” this summer  “likely violating” the Voting Rights Act

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Chocolate Chat: THE BOOK OF MORMON star and PK Lamont Whitaker Talks Legacy, Derogatory Terms & Humor

The nine-time Tony Award®winning Best Musical, “THE BOOK OF MORMON” returns to San Diego, September 19-24. And, we are here for it!  Some of us over here at The Chocolate Voice saw “THE BOOK OF MORMAN” at the San Diego Civic Theater, a few years ago and laughed so hard until our sides hurt! From the creators of South Park

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Morris Chestnut To Host OWN’s Rebuilding Black Wall Street

(Los Angeles, CA) – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will premiere a six-part docuseries, “Rebuilding Black Wall Street,” hosted by MorrisChestnut (The Best Man, Rosewood, Boyz n the Hood), who will trace the century-long impact of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and chronicle the resilient community rebuilding on Friday, September 29 at 9PM ET/8PM CST.   Tulsa’s Greenwood District, better known as Black

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Takes All-Around Title US Classics: Simone Biles Makes Triumphant Return to Gymnastics

By DL White A well known dictum (saying) suggest, “He (or she) who laughs last, laughs longest)” Include smile as well, because Simone Biles, the diminutive in size (4’8) gymnast came out gigantic during the US Gymnastic Classic competition held in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, August 5-6, ……….smiling all the way! Not that anyone was laughing

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