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Multicultural Doll Company and World Renowned Collectible Doll Enterprise Merge to Become Tonner One World

Houston, TX – The One World Doll Project, an emerging multicultural doll company, and Tonner Doll Company, one of the world’s most renowned collectible doll enterprises, today announced that their Boards of Directors have approved an agreement to merge The One World Doll Project and Tonner Doll Company, creating Tonner One World. The organizations announced […]

Grammy Award-Winner Ashanti Releases New Single “Let’s Go”

New York, NY – Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress and author Ashanti today released her newest single, “Let’s Go,” which her fans helped bring to life through #DrinkUpAshanti, a program launched on Nov. 5. By ‘donating’ drops of water using hashtag #DrinkUpAshanti on Twitter and Instagram, the song and video – now available for download […]

Diana Ross Featured on the Biggest Music Cruise – The Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage® presented by Ford

Dallas, Tx –  Diana Ross will be a featured headliner on the Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage® presented by Ford cruise with a special “Evening Under the Stars with Diana Ross.” The original Party with a Purpose® that sells out annually will also feature Charlie Wilson, Patti LaBelle, New Edition, and Jazmine Sullivan as it sets […]

Johnny Gill to Perform at UNCF Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball December 19

Atlanta, GA – Corporate Executives Shan Cooper and Jack Sawyer are the honorary co-chairs of the 32nd Annual UNCF Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball. The formal affair, UNCF’s signature fundraising gala and premier social event of the holiday season, will be held on Saturday, December 19, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. […]

Director, Stepp Stewart’s, “A Soulful Christmas Holiday Musical” Starts Dec 4 at Porter Sanford Performing Arts Center

Atlanta, GA – Emmy Nominated – Producer, /Director/Choreographer/Songwriter and Play-write Stepp Stewart’s “A Soulful Christmas” The Holiday Spectacular Musical Stage Production, returns to the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts and Community Center, 3181 Rainbow Drive, Decatur, GA for the third year running Friday, December 4-Sunday, December 6. Mr. Stewart has created a musical event for […]

Trice Edney Communications and Trice Edney News Wire Open Satellite Office in Howard School of Communications

Washington, D. C. – Trice Edney Communications, LLC and Trice Edney News Wire, founded five years ago by award winning veteran journalist Hazel Trice Edney, has opened a satellite office in the Howard University School of Communications. The new office is located in the CERRC (Communications Entrepreneurship Research and Resource Center), Room 108, 525 Bryant […]

Do Black Votes Matter to Donald Trump?

By David A. Graham (The Atlantic) – “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” So Donald Trump claimed back in 2011. But his bravado induces renewed skepticism this week. Last Wednesday, Trump announced that he’d hold a press conference on Monday to announce his endorsement by […]

Why Hillary Clinton Will do More for Black People than Obama – By Michael Eric Dyson

(The New Republic) – There is good reason to be skeptical about Hillary Clinton and race. It’s never been anything explicit, necessarily, but she has sinned in the realm of signification, the place where innuendo and plausible deniability live. Let us start with her first presidential campaign in 2008, and the infamous “3 a.m. phone […]