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Apr 29 2019

Julissa Bermudez and Sanya Richards-Ross to host entertainment news program Central Avenue

Select Fox Television Stations will air a five-week run of Central Avenue, an entertainment news strip, starting Nov. 4. The show will be produced by Lionsgate-owned Debmar Mercury in partnership with Will Packer Media. If the show does well during…

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Mar 18 2019

Freddie Figgers is the 1st African American Entrepreneur to Develop His Own 4G LTE Smart Phone

Freddie Figgers is an inventor, computer programmer, software engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the youngest person in history to hold a FCC license, which allows him to operate his own cell phone company.

Freddie was abandoned at birth, but was…

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Mar 18 2019

Mother And Son Entrepreneurs behind $850 Million Sundial Brand

Richelieu Dennis, the 49-year-old cofounder of Sundial Brands, had spent 20 years avoiding meals like this with the U.S. president of Unilever, the $54 billion (2017 sales) Anglo-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate. But he finally caved after Unilever executives began imploring…

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Mar 18 2019

Queen Latifah invests $20 Million in Creators of Color

Queen Latifah and ESSENCE Ventures LLC have partnered to create the Essence Creators and Makers Fund. This $20 million initiative will provide more financial support while building a stronger production and economic infrastructure for artists of color. ESSENCE Ventures LLC…

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Mar 18 2019

LeBron James continues to give back with I-Promise school

LeBron James ended his second stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers by signing with the Los Angeles Lakers, but he didn't leave the state of Ohio with nothing. James spent 11 seasons with the Cavs, winning a title in 2016 to…

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Mar 18 2019

Garcelle Beauvais, Lisa L. Wilson to produce Haitian Family Drama

Actress Garcelle Beauvais and producer Lisa L. Wilson have teamed up to form Beauvais Wilson Productions, a new multimedia production company. BWP’s aim is to focus on developing and producing stories with a diverse voice in television, film, digital and…

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Mar 18 2019

VR Founder uses Tech to Reduce Racial Bias

US companies invest an estimated $8 billion on diversity and inclusion training without clear metrics to determine the effectiveness and employee performance. But they don’t always go as planned. Employees can walk away from these trainings with triggered emotions. Clorama…

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Jun 24 2018

Akon is building a real life Wakanda

Akon, the top-selling ringtone artist of all time, is building a futuristic city in Senegal that will trade exclusively in Akoin: a cryptocurrency named after himself. If you have been away from the news for a while, yes, this…

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Jun 6 2018

June is National Soul Food Month

Were you aware that June is National Soul Food month? Well it is.

“Soul Food is a cuisine,” says Chef Todd Richards author of Soul. Soul Food is flexible, it is vegan and omnivorous. It has a particular and…

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Apr 9 2018

Michael Hudson on the real state of the economy

 

 

Apr 3 2018

There is a worldwide shortage of vanilla - here's why

VANILLA is one of the world’s most popular spices and an important ingredient in products ranging from chocolate to perfume. But it is getting harder to find. Vanilla-rich foods like ice cream have been removed from shelves or become…

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Apr 2 2018

U.S. wants your Social Media Details if you're a Visa Applicant

The State Department wants to require all U.S. visa applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers, vastly expanding the Trump administration's enhanced vetting of potential immigrants and visitors. 

In documents to be…

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Apr 1 2018

How Rockefeller Founded Big Pharma, Waged War On Natural Cures

 

Western medicine has some good points, and is great in an emergency, but it’s high time people realized that today’s mainstream medicine (western medicine or allopathy), with its focus on drugs, drugs, radiation, drugs, surgery, drugs and more drugs…

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Mar 25 2018

Colombia is trying to root out the cocaine trade while farmers rely on it

After hitting a low in 2012, Colombia's cultivation of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, jumped 134% between 2013 and 2016, US officials said late last year. 2016 alone saw a 52% increase in the area under coca cultivation…

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Dec 19 2017

Luther Campbell links with Adidas To Train Kids In Sports Business

Uncle Luke Campbell received some major backing for his Liberty City Optimist (Warriors) football program. Over the weekend, Luther Campbell announced Adidas has donated $300,000 to the program, in addition to equipment for the Sam Johnson Youth Center at…

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Dec 2 2017

Jay Z on therapy, politics, marriage, race and more

 

 

Check out the written story here: NY Times Style Magazine

 

Nov 27 2017

Consumer goods giant Unilever acquires legacy company Sundial Brands

 

                                      

 

Unilever, the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is acquiring Sundial Brands to expand its offering of hair- and skin-care products aimed at black women. 

New York-based Sundial, founded in 1991 by…

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Nov 14 2017

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad gets her own doll

The maker of Barbie has announced it will sell a doll modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American fencer who competed in last year’s Olympics while wearing a hijab. 

Mattel Inc. said the doll will be available online next…

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Oct 26 2017

Forest Whitaker to star in "American Gangster" prequel

Chris Brancato, the co-creator of Narcos, is developing a prequel series to the film American Gangster. Producer/writer Brancato. The project is called The Godfather Of Harlem and is based on the life of mob boss Bumpy Johnson. 

Describing…

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Sep 22 2017

Marshawn Lynch now has Beast Mobile

Marshawn Lynch may no longer be a Seahawk, but that’s not stopping a Seattle-area wireless carrier from teaming with the NFL star for a new phone service called Beast Mobile. A hero in Seattle sports history thanks to…

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Sep 17 2017

1st ever U.S. youth poet laureate stuns crowd at Social Change Summit in NYC

 

This summer, 19-year-old Amanda Gorman sat down to outline her priorities. As the very first U.S. youth poet laureate, a position she earned for her literary talent as well as her record of community engagement and leadership, she asked…

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Sep 6 2017

Issa Rae's Butter + Brown is coming to TV

Aspire TV has announced that they will be premiering Butter + Brown, a culinary series created and co-executive produced by Issa Rae. Issa Rae is the creator and star of HBO’s Insecure, a dramedy series developed from one of…

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Mar 14 2017

Dave Chappelle returns with a Netflix special




 

Feb 15 2017

Michael K. Williams on Typecasting


This Michael K.Williams video on type casting in roles as posed to 
himself is brilliant. Take a look 




Source: The Atlantic 
 

Jan 6 2017

Jeanette Epps will be 1st African-American International Space Station Crew Member

Just as the highly anticipated movie Hidden Figures, the story of three African-American women who were crucial in the launch of the first American into orbit, got released in theaters, more news of black female achievement in STEM (science, technology…

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