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*Poet Maya Angelou is said to be on the mend following a brief illness that forced her to cancel a planned speech in Texas. Angelou’s lecture agent David LaCamera said Tuesday the 83-year-old poet was scheduled to speak on Wednesday at Texas Women’s University in Denton, but came down with an illness that left her [...]
*International award-winning artist and writer Synthia Saint James has written a practical, easy-to-read book that is chock full of practical advice for artists and others in the creative arena who are seeking to reach that “next level” in their careers. “Living My Dream: An Artistic Approach to Marketing” is certain to become a “must have” [...]
*Summit Entertainment announced today that it will premiere the Tyler Perry-led “Alex Cross” wide on October 26, 2012, reports Deadline.com. The film will compete on that date with Dimension’s “Halloween 3D” and Fox’s surfing pic “Of Men And Mavericks.” The adaptation of the James Patterson novel stars Perry as the detective/psychologist protagonist who meets his [...]
*Tradition says women should dream of having a successful career, finding a suitable mate and starting a family with kids. But what happens when you achieve the same satisfaction by taking a different path? Former newspaper journalist Sonja Lewis explores this scenario in her new book “The BarrEness.” With the support of her friend, Fox [...]
*Sherri Shepherd has yet another project to add to her resume of work that includes a long list of talk show hosting, acting, and even game show hosting. Now she’s returning to the big screen for a film adaptation of Janet Evanovich’s popular mystery series “One for the money.” “I love working,” says Shepherd. “If [...]
*Sometimes you can pick up a book, and just can’t seem to put it down. Sweetback Blues by Kari Fretham (Lulu Publishers 2011) is one such book. It’s a tale of world-renowned Bluesman Henry Harris, aka Southside Slim. Fretham tells the story in the voice of the character which adds to the depth of the [...]
*Speaking to a packed session at the Jaipur Literature Festival, closing out her week-long visit to India, Oprah Winfrey said she still believes in our president and feels “very strongly that Obama will remain in office” for a second term. Dressed in a traditional salwar-kameez outfit by Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Winfrey spoke on a [...]
*Barry Josephson and his Josephson Entertainment banner are partnering with West Omaha Films to produce “The Magician,” a biopic of Marlin “The Magician” Briscoe, pro football’s first black starting quarterback. Gregory Allen Howard, who penned the football movie “Remember the Titans” and worked on “Ali,” wrote the script detailing Briscoe’s rise to the top, his [...]
*Racial profiling is an injustice that many would like to write off as an invalid excuse for alleged crimes committed by African Americans. Nevertheless, it remains a real problem and has even reared its ugly head in the nation’s classrooms. Recently, Roland Martin reported on a study done by the Yale University Child Study Center [...]
*Best known for his years as the flamboyant movie critic on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Frank DeCaro has written a book with wit and humor – packed with celebrity profiles and pop-culture ponderings, party menus, and more – The Dead Celebrity Cookbook pays homage to the departed stars of television, film, radio, and [...]
*Lil Wayne officially has a book deal. Lil Wayne has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, to write his prison memoir “Gone Till November.” Hachette announced Thursday that the book will tell of his eight months spent at the Rikers Island complex on a gun possession charge. Scheduled to come [...]
*Imagine this… You do some research into your family tree and discover that your uncle, who was born nearly 30 years after slavery, was one of thousands of black men pulled back into a forced labor system in which they were arrested – largely on trumped up charges – and compelled to work without pay as [...]
*It was only a matter of time before the enshrined celebrity tabloid obsession would ensnare the Obama family. They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry. New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor [...]
*Jennifer Hudson says she was shocked to find out that her image was digitally enhanced on her 2008 self-titled album. “It’s like, where’s the rest of me?” she told “Dateline’s” Lester Holt in an interview that aired last night (Jan. 8). “They Photoshopped me probably to the size I am now on that cover, when [...]
*New York, NY – – Cash Money Content, the book publishing arm of the iconic record label Cash Money Records, announces the re-release of Long White Con from legendary author and notorious pimp and hustler, Iceberg Slim. Considered the originator of Urban Street Literature, Iceberg Slim’s novels, Pimp: The Story of My Life (first released [...]
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