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Acclaimed Filmmaker Robert Townsend and Salli Richardson-Whitfield Fall In Love Over the Game of Basketball In The UP Premiere Movie Playin’ for Love

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Atlanta, GA – Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Townsend (The Five Heartbeats, Hollywood Shuffle) stars, directs, produces and co-wrote script with Michelle Amor and Cheryl L. West for the UP Premiere Movie Playin’ for Love, a romantic comedy about life on and off the basketball court. It’s a story about a successful high school coach who gets […]
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Business News

Entrepreneur, Armstrong Williams is Now the Largest Black Owner of TV stations in America

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By Hassahn Liggins, RadioFacts.com – If you are not familiar with Armstrong Williams, he is a political commentator, entrepreneur, author of a nationally syndicated conservative newspaper column, and host of a daily radio show and a nationally syndicated TV program called The Right Side with Armstrong Williams. Williams is also founder and CEO of the Graham Williams Group, […]
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Commentary

Crime, Punishment and Justice for All

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Marc Morial, NUL (National Urban League) – Let’s get this straight. Advocating for a smarter and fairer criminal justice system that strives to apply balance in sentencing and uses sensible, public-safety based practices to reduce our nation’s ever ballooning prison population does not mean that you are soft on crime, or that you stand against […]
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Entertainment

Watch the Movie Trailer for Spike Lee’s New Film Chiraq- WARNING Thinking Minds Only!

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Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a Child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago’s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around […]
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Books

Black Gay Author Terrance Dean Comes Back “Out” in Hip Hop Re-Introducing the Titles That Started It All, HIDING IN HIP HOP and MOGUL Now Available as eBooks

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Nashville, TN – Hip Hop is officially ‘out.’ Openly gay and transgender personalities are now featured on top rated TV network shows like Fox’s “Empire”; Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black”; and even on reality TV on VH1’s “Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood.” While some may not remember, it was best-selling author Terrance Dean who […]
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Entertainment

Former Death Row Records Exec Launches Lydia Harris Entertainment with New Project: Judgement Day

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Houston, TX – The Legendary Lydia Harris, who first came to our attention as one third of the infamous triumvirate responsible for launching one of the most successful record labels in hip hop history, Death Row Records. Not one to bask in past glories or wallow in defeat, Ms. Harris is looking forward. Her Death […]
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Business News

Kristen Clarke Named President and Executive Director of National Lawyers’ Committee

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Washington, DC – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) announced Kristen Clarke as its new president and executive director, effective January 1, 2016, succeeding Barbara R. Arnwine, who served in this capacity for more than 26 years. Clarke currently serves as the head of the Civil Rights Bureau at the […]
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Commentary

National Higher Education Summit to Focus on Equity, Affordability – By Marc H. Morial

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(To Be Equal #41) – New York – Next week, Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will join dozens of other elected officials, university presidents and education experts for an unprecedented national summit , presented by the National Urban League and USA Funds, to […]
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Entertainment

Jordan Sparks, Loretta Devine, A’ngela Winbush, Meli’sa Morgan, YoYo, Alyson Williams join Sheryl Lee Ralph to Celebrate 25 years of HIV/AIDS Awareness at DIVAS Simply Singing! Benefit Concert

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Hollywood, CA – Sheryl Lee Sheryl Lee’s DIVAS Simply Singing! Celebrates 25 years of HIV/AIDS Awareness. Join the Divinely Inspired Victoriously Aware DIVA, actor/activist Sheryl Lee Ralph on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 7PM as she brings her renowned DIVAS Simply Singing! Benefit concert to the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood. DIVAS Simply Singing! is […]
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