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The “It” Factor: The internet is allowing people to push forward their ideas and talents in ways like never before, and no place is that more evident than on YouTube. With over 800 million users worldwide who watch 4 billion hours of programming the video sharing website is the industry leader in the distribution of [...]
*The island of Tobago: The very thought of the place engenders thoughts of plush forests, deep ravines and tropical beaches. In other words, paradise found. The much smaller sister island to Trinidad, the lesser known island is indeed home to everything that I imagined and much more. At the invitation of the government’s Tourism Department, [...]
*Recently nominated for an Academy Award nominee (as a producer on “Django Unchained”), Reginald Hudlin has again demonstrated his strength as a creative force in Hollywood. Beginning his career as the director of the classic hip hop comedy “House Party,” Hudlin has gone on to showcase his considerable talents by directing other hit films like [...]
*Making power moves that celebrate and bring together multiple ethnic cultures has long been a top priority for Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, who joined CBS Entertainment as a publicist in 2000. , After spending nearly a decade overseeing publicity strategies for primetime series, movies and specials, the Howard University graduate was appointed to her a newly created [...]
(By Gil Robertson) As the head of Wall St. giant Goldman Sachs’ newly formed Institutional Client Group, Valentino Carlotti is a key player in the firm’s Sales and Trading Division, which this year was responsible for 57% of first–quarter revenue for the financial giant. Of course, making high-level executive decisions is nothing new for Carlotti, [...]
*With a creative resume that includes acting, writing and filmmaking, Tanya Wright is a gifted artist who is poised to take flight. Although the New York native and Vassar College graduate is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Deputy Kenya Jones on the red-hot HBO series “True Blood,” Wright is also gaining attention [...]
*As a writer Denene Millner has reached the pinnacle of success in her profession. As a journalist, she has contributed to numerous magazines that include, Essence (where she is a contributing editor), Ebony, Heart & Soul, Entertainment Weekly, Money and others. While as an author, she has authored or co-authored an astonishing 19 books that [...]
*A writer is someone with the ability to create and tell stories that have the potential to impact humanity. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Leonard Pitts, Jr., is such an individual as his work as a writer has provided readers with the insight and perspective to grow further. A Los Angeles native, Pitts is a [...]
*The dating scene can be difficult to navigate from the start due primarily to the different ways in which men and women are socialized. When you add dating someone outside your race into the mix, making a permanent connection very often becomes even more complicated. Of course such relationships are nothing new in America, since [...]
*Born in Silver Spring, Maryland, Michael Ealy majored in English at the University of Maryland before heading to New York City where he performed in several stage productions, including the off-Broadway hits “Joe Fearless” and “Whoa Jack, before being lured to Hollywood where he landed his breakout screen role as Ricky Nash in the box [...]
*Born Lonnie Rashid Lynn in Chicago on March 13, 1972, Common rose to prominence as one of hip-hop’s most poetic and respected lyricists, having garnered multiple Grammy Awards for his first eight albums. Common’s ninth, The Dreamer, The Believer, will be released in December by Warner Brothers Records. In 2004, he partnered with fellow Chicago [...]
*6 Questions with Terrence Dean Terrence Dean is perhaps the most notable black gay author to hit the literary scene since E. Lynn Harris. With more than 5 books to his credit, (including the bestselling “Hiding in Hip Hop,”), Dean has built a reputation creating stories that reveal the complex lives faced by black gay [...]
*It’s no secret that the institution of the two-parent household has fallen on some hard times in Black America. According to statistics the paucity of such couplings has become so severe that the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families has placed special emphasis on its African-American Healthy Marriage Initiative, which [...]
*As a 20-year music industry veteran, Shanti Das knows firsthand how to build a successful career in the face of all kinds of circumstances. With an industry tenure that has included executive marketing titles at LaFace, Arista, Columbia and Universal/Motown, Das has played an instrumental role in shaping some of the biggest careers in popular [...]
*It’s been nearly 20-years, but actor Bokeem Woodbine has still got that smoldering and indefinable quality that commands your attention immediately when he hits the screen. I first met Bo more than15-years ago to interview him for his breakthrough role in “Jason’s Lyric” at the Carson, CA home of actor Forest Whitaker. At the time, [...]
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