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EVENT CALENDAR: Brown, Bow Wow, Whoopi at Kids Choice; Chuck D wants troops ‘Home Now’; BlackNLA.com’s Choice Awards.
*Nickelodeon's 19th annual Kids' Choice Awards will include performances by Chris Brown and Bow Wow, and presenters Whoopi Goldberg, Eve, Ludacris, Nick Cannon and Romeo, among others. The ceremony will be held April 1 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. Bow Wow will perform "Fresh Azimiz," and Chris Brown will do a medley of "Run It" and "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)." Comedian Chris Rock will be presented with the Wannabe Award, given annually to a role model.
*Chuck D, Michael Stipe, Rufus Wainwright will appear with peace activist Cindy Sheehan at a benefit concert dubbed “Bring ‘Em Home Now,” to be held Monday (March 20) at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The concert's goal is "giving voice to the majority of Americans who now support the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq." Other performers on the bill include Fischerspooner, Steve Earle, Bright Eyes and Peaches. Janeane Garofalo will broadcast her "Majority Report" live from the concert on Air America.
*BlackNLA.com will mark its 6th Anniversary with the 1st Annual Choice Awards, honoring local businesses and individuals based on votes from an online consumer poll. “There are so many businesses and individuals within our community, and we thought this would be a great time to recognize them,” says Cherice Calhoun, Founder and President of BlackNLA.com, an online resource center for African Americans living, working and/or visiting Los Angeles and the surrounding areas of Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties. The event, to be held in Hollywood on April 14, will also feature a reception and afterparty at the Green light Lounge, sponsored by Tanqueray.
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