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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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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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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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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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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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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A familiar face has signed on to the film "Hidden Figures," which tells the story of the black women who helped NASA win the space race. Pharrell Williams will produce and score music for the film. The woman is Katherine…

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Marley Dias is a leading revolution. Frustrated with the lack of diversity in her reading curriculum, the 11-year-old New Jersey student started a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks, which collects and donates books in which black girls are the main characters. 

The…

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NFL owners voted on Jan 12 to allow the St. Louis Rams to move to a new stadium just outside Los Angeles, and the San Diego Chargers will have an option to share the facility. The Oakland Raiders, who also…

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Hollywood is taking another step toward the normalization of the relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Showtime’s dark comedy series House Of Lies is heading to the Caribbean island to film its fifth-season finale, marking the first time an American…

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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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History was made with DJ Con back on Nov 19, 2015 in Harlem, New York when 125 DJ's rocked on125th Street at the Apollo Theatre. It was sponsored by The 125th St. Business Improvement District. If you missed it don't…

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Raptors president and general manager Masai Ujiri will host his second annual benefit in support
of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the charity that he co-founded in 2003, The Giant of Africa
on Dec 5. 

Ujiri, born in Zaria, Nigeria,…Read more

The platinum-selling singer, ex-husband of the late Whitney Houston and father of the late Bobbi
Kristina Brown has a deal with Dey Street Books for My Prerogative, the publisher told The Associated
Press. The book is scheduled to be released…Read more

When asked how it feels to be one of Mexico's most powerful women at her age, Dafne Almazan
giggles. "I'm kind of proud of it," she says. "It's a great honor." In September 2015, Dafne became
the world's youngest psychologist…Read more

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

Many tend to forget the accomplishments and achievements that Arthur Ashe has
won in his years as a man, athlete, philanthropist. Ashe remains the only black man
to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, or Australian Open.…Read more

Ahead of his "Rally 4 Peace" concert in Baltimore on Sunday (May 10), Prince has shared shared a moving
new tribute song to the city following the death of Freddie Gray.
 
The four-and-a-half-minute track was recorded in early May at…Read more

Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg is calling out several of today's biggest pop stars. The
16-year-old actress, who played Rue in the first installment of the popular film franchise, recorded
a video for her high school history class in which…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

One of the last major digital holdouts, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," should soon be available
as an e-book.  L. Londell McMillan said Feb 20 that a digital edition will likely be out by May 19, what
would have been…Read more

So here is the Official Trailer from Universal Pictures of "Straight Outta Compton"
about the rise and fall of rap group turned pop group NWA. You will have to 
get through the 1 minute intro of Ice Cube and Dr…Read more

Netflix recently announced plans to debut an original documentary on the legendary
singer and activist Nina Simone. What Happened, Miss Simone? will be directed by
the award-winning documentarian Liz Garbus, whose credits include The Farm:
Angola, USA and the HBO…Read more

Started in the '60s as a jazz group (founding member Robert "Kool" Bell told the
crowd that his godfather was Thelonius Monk), the band morphed several times,
fusing jazz's experimental ear with funk's tough edges in the '70s. They also…Read more

Oxygen Network is releasing "The Misty Copeland Project," to its new lineup in
an effort to rebrand and target "young, multicultural women."The series follows
the star ballerina as she trains and mentors talented hopefuls from diverse
backgrounds, who descend upon…Read more