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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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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The Other Festival is bringing major girl power to New York. Billed as the “first all-female festival,” the one-day event is loaded with panels from female entrepreneurs followed by a concert series of all female acts. 
  
The festival’s founder, Dee…

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Ms. Lauryn Hill has launched a three-day series of music and art events celebrating the African Diaspora. The former Fugees singer inaugurated Diaspora Calling with a private art gallery at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, which opens to the public on 4/14…

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Stephon Marbury is so big in China that he's been immortalized with his own statue and postage stamp.Now a museum dedicated to the former NBA star is set to open Dec 28. Marbury attended the grand opening for the…

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The Dave Chappelle fall tour will kick off on September 14th at Salt Lake City's Capitol Theater and end on
October 7th at Hershey, Pennsylvania's Hershey Theatre. In between, he'll perform at venues in New Hampshire,
Connecticut, Colorado and Idaho,…Read more

Janet Jackson's Unbreakable World Tour is coming to the East Coast. Jackson has added 27 more cities to her trek,
beginning January 12, 2016, in Portland, Oregon, with stops planned for New York City, Washington DC, Boston,
Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia…Read more

On Oscar night, one of the attendees catching everyone's eye wasn't even a nominee. It was
18-year-old Disney Channel actress Zendaya. And she wasn't even getting attention for her
dress but for how she styled her hair in dreadlocks.Something E!…Read more

Veterans Day is a great time of year to volunteer, donate or simply thank someone
who has served, or is serving, in the U.S. military. And you won’t be the only one
showing appreciation. Many companies see Veterans Day as…Read more

50 Cent is partnering up with Century 21 but not to sell clothes. In an effort to raise
money for programs and services for families affected by 9/11,  the store’s CEO
Eddie Gindi is working with the non-profit organization Tuesday’s…Read more

A solution to the long-contested issue of nightclub performance royalties may
come in the form of a small black box. Leading audio-equipment manufacturer
Pioneer has developed a product -- KUVO, a play on kumo, the Japanese word
for cloud --…Read more

The Seattle City Council is replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples'
Day in the city. The resolution that passed unanimously Oct 13 celebrates the
contributions and culture of Native Americans and the indigenous community in
Seattle on the second Monday…Read more

Concert ticket search engine SeatGeek announced that it has raised $35 million in a series B
round of funding led by Accel Partners. Other investors in the round include rapper Nas,
NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning and Causeway Media…Read more

No one should be surprised of all the school shootings and gun violence in America
when you are breeding 9 year old girls to be shooters.
 
A 9-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed a shooting instructor with an automatic Uzi… Read more

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Mo'Ne Davis is taking the 2014 Little League World Series, and the nation, by storm. The infectious 13-year-old is the star pitcher on her Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, team in the LLWS. She fired a complete-game shutout that helped her squad…

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R. Kelly has been dropped from the lineup of an Ohio music festival following complaints
about his past as an alleged sexual predator. The musician was slated to perform on the
opening day of the inaugural Fashion Meets Music Festival…Read more

The currently in-construction Museum Of African American History And Culture has sided with the
donut lover in all of us. At DC Loves Dilla, Ma Dukes took to the stage with a rep from the latest addition
to The Smithsonian‘s…Read more

Caribbean Week is the largest most engaging, regional tourism activity in the
New York area and typically attracts thousands of participants. Extensive media coverage
of the various events reaches local, national and international audiences in the millions.
This year, Caribbean…Read more

By virtually every metric: ticket sales, the number of stars moving up to the theater and arena
level, the volume of acts doing good business, touring comedy is in the midst of a golden age. 
“The comedy business has never…Read more

Live Nation and Yahoo will live-stream 365 concerts over a 12-month period set to begin
later this summer, the two companies announced during Yahoo’s “Newfront” presentation
to advertisers at New York’s Lincoln Center. The program seeks to answer a question…Read more

Some residents and business owners in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood are still struggling
to recover in the aftermath of a gas explosion that left eight people dead and flattened two 5-story
apartment buildings about two weeks ago. At…Read more

The fellas love Aretha Franklin: Denzel Washington helped the Queen of Soul celebrate her 72nd
birthday in style, and Andre 3000 and Babyface are working on new music for the icon. Franklin
held an exclusive and small party in New…Read more

Still riding the success of his global hit "Happy," Pharrell Williams is partnering
with the United Nations Foundation to celebrate International Day of Happiness
on March 20th. Established in 2012 by the United Nations General Assembly,
the day acknowledges that…Read more