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As tributes for the late model and actress pour in, friends and family send their prayers and well wishes for Porter’s children, whom she loved more than anything. Last Thursday, hip-hop fans across the globe […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Pioneering poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died on the morning of October 27 at an assisted living facility in Bowie, Maryland. She was best known for her much […]

Harvey Weinstein (Photo: Wikimedia Commons / David Shankbone) By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Is Bill Cosby paying the price for all of the sins in the #MeToo era, even though his conviction […]

(l-r) Algee Smith and Amandla Stenberg star in The Hate U Give By Dwight Brown The phrase “The Hate U Give Little Infants F—s Everybody” gave the hip hop group T-H-U-G-L-I-F-E its name. The sentiment […]

By Lynn Jones – For more than 20 years, Comedian Cocoa Brown has spewed comedic jokes across the country! You’ve seen her in the movies and she is now co-starring in the hit show 9-1-1 […]

By Lynn Jones – Marsha Ambrosius is in love! The English songwriter and sultry singer hails from Liverpool, England. Her musical career began as a member of Floetry, a singing dynamic duo that released their […]

by Julie Hinds (Detroit Free Press) There is plenty of drama and family turmoil in “White Boy Rick,” the new movie about Richard Wershe Jr.’s teenage years in Detroit as an FBI informant and drug […]

Bill Cosby walks to the courtroom during his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (Pool) By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor A source whom can […]

Entries accepted through October 7, Winner to be announced on October 28 Starz, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), announced today that submissions are being accepted from U.S. students for the opportunity to win a […]

Aretha Franklin By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Aretha Franklin, who died last week, will lie in repose August 28th and 29th at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. The public […]