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via BlackAmericaWeb: A jubilant Ava DuVernay was named entertainer of the year at an NAACP Image Awards ceremony that focused on the black community’s power to create change. DuVernay lauded other black artists from the stage as she accepted her award Monday night, naming writers and directors such as Shonda Rhimes, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Kenya Barris and “Black […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: Tyler Perry was the keynote speaker at the 25th annual 5000 Role Models of Excellence scholarship program, an organization that provides mentorship and support to at-risk young men. “But I looked at your faces coming down the aisle and I got emotional,” he told the crowd of hundreds at the Martin Luther King Jr. […]
via BlackDoctor: Over the past 30 years, beautiful actress Angela Bassett has played an impressive line of real-life characters from Rosa Parks to Tina Turner and Betty Shabazz has a new role as an L.A. street cop named Athena Grant in “9-1-1,” a new series about first responders that premiered to rave reviews last Wednesday on Fox. The […]
via FirstLadyB: Whitney Houston added to the Grammy’s Hall of Fame Class of 2018. Whitney Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” is being added to the Grammy’s Hall of Fame, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday morning. Clive Davis, who mentored the late Whitney Houston talked with Billboardabout Houston’s film debut in The Bodyguard, which generated I Will Always Love You. “I did […]
Take a look back at Aaliyah over the years.
via eurweb: The legacy of slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be recognized on Monday, January 15, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. A sea of mourning engulfed America on April 4, 1968 the day King was assassinated. Negroes were drowning in despair after his senseless murder in Memphis. […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: Y’all: Mama Oprah had time yesterday! It all started when the recent Golden Globe winner and veteran journalist posted a preview of a Sunday CBS interview with Tracee Ellis Ross, Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, America Ferrera and other prominent women about their new anti-sexual harassment initiative Time’s Up. Then, with their gloom and doom, an Internet troll started it by posting a […]
via News5: Keith Jackson, the sportscaster whose rich voice and distinctive phrasing endeared him to generations of college football fans, has died, ESPN said in a news release Saturday. He was 89. The play-by-play man narrated a range of sports for ABC for more than 40 years, starting in 1966. But college football was his […]
via TheChristianPost: LeToya Luckett-Walker says her stepdaughter, Madison, is proof that God heard the desires of her heart. Luckett-Walker, the 36-year-old singer who rose to fame as a member of the ’90s girl group Destiny’s Child, married Madison’s father, Texas entrepreneur Tommicus Walker, last month. Before meeting him, the singer and actress said she longed […]
via BCNN1: Paul Bergen/RedfernsMusic legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tina Turner will be honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award this summer. A special awards ceremony and concert to celebrate Tina, along with other honorees including British rockers Queen, country icon Emmylou Harris, New Orleans funk group The Meters, and legendary studio […]
via Joy105: Trying to distinguish your product among the thousands at the CES gadget show is no easy feat, so it helps when music legend Stevie Wonder pays an unexpected visit. Especially when your product is a “smart” piano designed to teach people how to play. Piano teacher Gabie Perry was demonstrating the internet-connected device, […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: Legendary singer Peabo Bryson, 66, and his 36-year-old wife Tanya welcomed their first child together, a son, born on New Year’s Eve. In a series of Tweets, Bryson, who has one older daughter from a prior relationship, and his wife expressed their excitement for their new baby boy, who Peabo referred to as “Kit Bryson/RobertKittrick-Peabo […]