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Trend Alert: 70s Style Floppy Hats
Filed under: Accessories, Trends 70s trends are here to stay and for the past few seasons wide leg pants, oversized sunglasses, jumpsuits, and bohemian maxi dresses have been popular. But the floppy...
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Director of Casts Her Next Film
Ava DuVernay, the film director behind the critically lauded I Will Follow and a champion for black independent film, is already working on her her next feature, Middle of Nowhere, which is slated for...
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For New Schools Chief, a Policy Statement in Tones of Harmony
From the New York Times: Dennis M. Walcott, New York City's schools chancellor, hates prepared texts for speeches and wears a pedometer to count his daily steps. So it stands to reason that during a...
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Documentary Touching on Effect Boston Busing Riots Had on Latinos
From Fox News Latino: A documentary to be unveiled this week will revisit the tumultuous busing riots in Boston in the 1970s, with a rarely seen look at its effects on Latinos and Asian-American...
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Book With Advice For Growing Healthy Black, Afro Caribbean, and African...
From PRWEB: Now more than ever before, Black, Afro Caribbean, and African American women around the world are embracing methods, advice, and products to help them take care of their hair naturally,...
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Fox News Contributor Calls Jon Stewart Racist For Mocking Herman Cain
Filed under: News, Politics Jon Stewart has thumped with the folks over at Fox News before, both on "The Daily Show" and on occasion, to their faces. (Last week, Stewart went on "Fox News Sunday with...
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Snapped: Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union Hit 'Transformers' Premiere
Filed under: Celebrity Style Cute couple Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade dressed to the nines for the premiere of 'Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon' in New York City. Union wore a lacy black dress...
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Obama Urges Deal on Debt Ceiling Talks
From CNN: President Barack Obama said Wednesday that both Republicans and Democrats need to be willing to "take on their sacred cows and do tough things" in order to reach an agreement on raising...
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Toni Morrison's Grand, Gabled Princeton Home Hits the Market
From Curbed: Princeton, N.J., is a quaint town full of lovely architecture and even lovelier tree-lined streets; its esteemed university and hourlong commute into NYC makes it a prime setting for...
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Jill Scott Celebrates First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200
From Billboard: R&B singer Jill Scott celebrates her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her fourth studio effort, 'The Light of the Sun,' debuts atop the list with 135,000 sold...
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Don Cheadle's Company Signs First-Look Deal with Showtime
Filed under: Television From Deadline Hollywood: Don Cheadle, star of Showtime's upcoming comedy series 'House of Lies,' is expanding his relationship with the pay cable network through a first-look...
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Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald to Star in 'Porgy and Bess' This December
From Playbill: The American Repertory Theater production of the George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera 'Porgy and Bess,' which begins performances in August, will arrive on Broadway Dec. 17 at the...
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Eric B. & Rakim
Filed under: Black Music Month There's only one hip-hop group who can claim to have had a presidential-caliber DJ and a rapper known as 'The God MC': Eric B. & Rakim. The trailblazing rap duo...
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African-American Shakespeare Company to Present 'Cinderella,'Inderella,'...
From Broadway World: San Francisco's African-American Shakespeare Company proudly announces the lineup for its 17th season. The season marks African-American Shakespeare Company's second season under...
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Fashion Forward (or Guard)
From the New York Times: Fans are still chuckling about Charles Barkley bursting out of the garish purple sports jacket he wore to the National Basketball Association draft more than a quarter-century...
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African Leaders Scorn NATO From $837 Million Resort as Qaddafi Clings On
From Bloomberg: African leaders will probably scorn the international campaign against Libya's Muammar Qaddafi today from the luxury of an Equatorial Guinea resort built by a president who imprisoned...
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Top 10 Covers of Old School Rap Songs
Filed under: Black Music Month They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but the hip-hop community generally considers it blasphemous to take a fellow rappers' lyrics. For that reason, it's...
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Ex-Assistant Sues Wayans Bros for Stealing Jokes
Filed under: Entertainment From the Hollywood Reporter: Trial alert! On July 12th, the best comedy in Los Angeles will not be heard at the Improv, but rather a federal court as the Wayans brothers face...
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DJ Pete Rock: NYPD Brutalized Concertgoers
Filed under: News The accounts of what happened after the Peter Rock and Smif-n-Wessun show in New York City early on Wednesday morning couldn't be more different. But a few things are clear: dozens of...
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Sam Cooke Honored in Chicago Street Naming Ceremony
Had he lived, Sam Cooke would have turned 80-years-old in January of this year. His life and legacy were celebrated with the naming of 36th Street, Chicago, Illinois as Sam Cooke Way on Saturday, June...
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