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02/04/2022

Inside "Simply Nell's Tiny Studio" the subject are the myths and lies told about dreadlocks.

Hi! Welcome to my Tiny Studio! In this episode, we discuss the common questions that people ask newbies about dreads or sisterlocks, and how to answer them.

03/03/2022

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, UNITED STATES, March 2, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- With over fifty-eight years in the music industry, the legendary R&B group, the Whispers, continue to be a solid and stellar fixture in entertainment. They are the balladeers of soul, with enchantingly smooth voices and memorable....

23/02/2022

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Don’t Look Up, The Big Short and Succession set up the project at HBO, where it will make its debut with a 10-episode first season starting March 6. In between, McKay filled out the cast with a mix of newcomers like Quincy Isaiah (as Earvin “Magic” Johnson) and Solomon Hughes (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and such heavy hitters as John C. Reilly (as the late Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss), Sally Field (his mother, Jessie), Adrien Brody (Pat Riley), Jason Clarke (Jerry West) and Jason Segel (Paul Westhead); and HBO renamed it Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (to avoid any brand confusion with rival Showtime). When the first teaser dropped in early December, current Lakers star LeBron James summed up the excitement surrounding the series with six fire emojis, tweeting, “Wow!!!! I can’t wait for this,” to his following of 50 million. Esquire suggested that the nearly two-minute spot — with its fast cars, fur coats and even a little basketball — might just be the greatest trailer of all time.

'Winning Time' producer Adam McKay and his cast and crew reveal the big offscreen plays and occasional fouls behind the show they were told was impossible to pull off: "We can't do this with a subpar Magic Johnson."

23/02/2022

Not that you need to have seen the original in the first place, since Homecoming‘s determination to do its own thing extends to its plot. Though it certainly doesn’t hurt to go back and catch up on the backdoor pilot that aired as part of All American last year, Simone (Geffri Maya) ­— the Homecoming protagonist who links the two shows — recaps everything a new viewer really needs to know in the first few minutes of the new series.

The 'All American' spinoff follows a tennis player from Beverly Hills to her first year at a historically Black university in Atlanta.

22/02/2022

When Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin posted on Facebook how much he enjoyed the Super Bowl 56 Half Time Show, some of his followers and fellow church goers were alarmed at his response. Does loving secular music take away from being a spiritual person?

22/02/2022

“I hope the takeaway is that a successful career isn’t built around how your hair is styled, or if you have an accent, or if there’s tattoos, or if you need different working hours to put your family first,” Union says. “There is not one way to be 'professional'"

The actress and co-founder of the haircare line Flawless will explore gender equity in the workplace, mental health and more in her new content series.

22/02/2022

"It’s been a challenging time for Wendy as she deals with her health issues. She is incredibly grateful to Debmar-Mercury, to Sherri and everybody else who has supported the show through this time."

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury, the producer-distributor of The Wendy Williams Show, and the daytime syndicated talk show’s longtime home, the Fox TV Stations, announced this morning t…

22/02/2022

Looks like it's OFFICIAL. Get ready for SHERRI! COMING THIS FALL.

It’s official — a daytime syndicated talk show hosted by Sherri Shepherd (The View, Dish Nation) will succeed The Wendy Williams Show. Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury, the producer-distribut…

16/02/2022

he CW would end up abandoning much of what UPN had built. The new network “essentially took on the identity of The WB,” Nunan says. “I thought it was a huge missed opportunity and a big shame for The WB to just let that programming block fade away, because we’ve learned over and over again that the African American audience can be a tremendously loyal audience, and it just seemed like this audience helped us build our channel, and now we’re just going to step away from them?” he says.

With hit sitcoms like 'Moesha' and 'The Parkers,' the network gave voice to a new generation of Black storytellers and creatives. But a change in strategy ahead of a merger with The WB led to "all these … pretty white teenager shows, and it was very separate and unequal."

16/02/2022

In March 2020, Miller relaunched his own marketing company, All Approach, after failing twice before. He’d already had some commercial success as a music producer and songwriter, including having a song in the film, Almost Christmas. Almost Christmas grossed over $42 million in the U.S. Box Office. Through his perseverance, Miller now employs more than a dozen people and recently redesigned the website for the NAACP Snohomish County Branch.

Kevin Marcus Miller wrote and produced a song that is featured in the hit film “Almost Christmas,” which was the number one comedy film at the box office when it […]

16/02/2022

Kilpatrick says his new venture is called Movemental Ministries, and will include Saturday services, Bible studies, and workshops.

Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor who was convicted for federal corruption, has started a new business that he calls a "virtual ministry" after his release in prison.

16/02/2022

Teressa, an author and entrepreneur who has a true passion for education, says that after deciding to homeschool her son, she tried to teach him the way she was taught, and then she realized the futility of the conventional methods of teaching. She aspires to make other parents, families, and educators understand how a more personalized education system is needed to offer the full benefits of education and preserve the individuality of children through her book.

Nationwide — Teressa Kennedy, a single mom from Northern California, says that making the decision to homeschool her middle-school-aged son helped him to defy the odds. As a parent, she […]

12/02/2022

Thirty years and counting, she’s not just still standing, she’s thriving. “It took me a long time to get here,” she tells EBONY contributor Danielle Young. For so many Black women, Mary has been our mirror. So her victories are collective wins. And we love to see it. Good Morning Gorgeous is her 15th studio album. Power Book II: Ghost, one of 50 Cent’s hit Starz series where she plays drug queenpin Monet, just ended the last episode of its second season with its highest ratings to date heading into an already guaranteed third season. On top of all that, our girl is holding down the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar as the only queen in the crew. And, best of all, she’s finally in love with herself and can fully appreciate her fruits.

“I feel good. I feel amazing,” she sings from her DJ Khaled-assisted anthem “Amazing,” also from Good Morning Gorgeous album. One of her many truths that she rap-sings on that track is “It’s so hard to fake when everything I do is real.” That’s the DNA to the soundtrack she’s created for herself and for us. As with her many other hit singles, “Good Morning Gorgeous,” she tells Young also comes from a very real and deep place.

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There’s so many parts of Mary that we all see in ourselves. It’s a tale of not just struggle, but also of triumph and evolution.

12/02/2022

"A media mogul from Detroit is reportedly preparing a bid to buy the Denver Broncos.

"Bloomberg reports that Byron Allen is eyeing a move into the NFL. If successful, he would become the first Black majority owner of a National Football League team.

"Allen was born in Detroit and raised in Los Angeles. He rose to prominence thanks to regular comedic appearances on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."

Allen's investor group could pay $3 billion to $4 billion for the Broncos, the biggest price tag for a team in North American sports history.

12/02/2022

12/02/2022

"The State Department formally announced the departure on Saturday, saying it had ordered “most US direct hire employees” to leave Kyiv “due to the continued threat of Russian military action.”

"Two sources with knowledge of the evacuation plans — including one who provided images of a conversation they had with an embassy employee about the evacuation — earlier told BuzzFeed News that employees were told Friday morning that they were to pack their bags and prepare to depart Ukraine."

US Embassy employees will need to leave the country by Sunday, Feb. 13, two sources told BuzzFeed News. It’s unclear whether some essential staff may remain in the country.

12/02/2022

A "toxic culture" at the Dr. Phil Show? How can this even be?

“Everyone was just pretty miserable. You would walk into the building and there was just a palpable dread and anxiety,” one former employee said. “Dr. Phil — the show about mental health where everybody who works on it has terrible mental health because our work conditions were really bad.”

“This show destroyed me mentally, emotionally, and physically,” one former Dr. Phil employee said.

12/02/2022

Where in the world is Neil Cavuto?

Cavuto has had myriad health issues in the past. Hopefully, he's OK. But the network isn't commenting on his absence.

12/02/2022

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“Her recovery isn’t as quick as we had hoped,” says a ‘Wendy Williams Show’ insider.

10/02/2022

Today's NFL Half Time Show news conference.

Hip-Hip icons Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar talk about their Super Bowl halftime show at a midday news conference. MORE: http...

09/02/2022

I felt totally engulfed by his presence, and I know other people from all walks of life everywhere—politicians, presidents, first ladies, supermodels, poets, and those in ballet and architecture—did as well. Do you realize I am like a blip on that radar? My “godfather” was friends with Andy Warhol and [Jean-Michel] Basquiat, so when I’m telling you the very essence of culture, that is him no matter how you slice that pie. It doesn’t matter what kind of culture. He’s always going to be there, from hip-hop to classical; art to architecture. He is as educated as any. He has rubbed elbows with as many. He has been in every room, every palace, every kingdom. He’s the legend. Even though he might be our contemporary, or our peer, we have to use that [word] humbly.

The André I Knew Model, mogul, and Baby Phat CEO Kimora Lee Simmons pays tribute to her late friend

09/02/2022

“Our show is in no way a moral tale to teach people how to live their life or what they should be doing,” Zendaya said, partially in response to the statement from D.A.R.E. “If anything, the feeling behind Euphoria, or whatever we have always been trying to do with it, is to hopefully help people feel a little bit less alone in their experience and their pain. And maybe feel like they’re not the only one going through or dealing with what they’re dealing with.”

Zendaya says the gritty depiction of teenage narcotic addiction in 'Euphoria' is not meant "to teach people how to live their life"

09/02/2022

Based on a true story, Cake centers on a quiet young woman unlucky in love who discovers an unlikely guy magnet when she bakes a cake for her best friend’s birthday and brings it to a bar, only to be swarmed by men. She believes it’s a fluke, but her friend convinces her to commit to a year of baking cakes and bringing them to bars, with the goal of finding true love. The young woman’s life proceeds to open up in ways she couldn’t have imagined.

Trish Sie, the helmer behind 'Pitch Perfect 3,' has come aboard to direct the feature.

09/02/2022

Betty Davis, a soul and funk singer of the 1960s whose growling, raspy vocal style and unapologetically explicit lyrics would influence future performers from Prince and Erykah Badu to Outkast, died today of natural causes at her home in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was 77.

Betty Davis, a soul and funk singer of the 1960s whose growling, raspy vocal style and unapologetically explicit lyrics would influence future performers from Prince and Erykah Badu to Outkast, die…