The highly controversial novel, “The Book of Negroes,” a book written by Lawrence Hill (pictured), was just green-lighted to be adapted into a miniseries that…

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Attention Star Wars fans! Good news was announced over the weekend by director J.J. Abrams. The Hollywood vet revealed at the Producers Guild of American’s Produced By conference in Los Angeles that the seventh installment of the hit franchise will begin filming in early 2014. “We are, most likely, if all goes as planned, going […]

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Esther Williams, a swimming champion who dove into success in Hollywood “aqua-movie” musicals geared to showing off her skills, has died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at 91, her spokesperson has confirmed to NBC News. She had not been ill, but had been experiencing health issues related to her age, Harlan Boll said. She passed away […]

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Everyone has his own way to deal with airport security — some go with the flow. But the man who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” films had a different approach: Last week, when confronted with TSA agents who thought his cane looked suspicious, Peter Mayhew reached for his Twitter account — not a light […]

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You would think going to church wouldn’t pose a security risk, but some Detroiters beg to differ. On city’s West Side, between Seven and Eight…

There’s no one like you Jesus! Pioneer of the modern worship movement over the years with Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, Darlene Zschech partnered with…

Singer/songwriter/musician Mali Music has been steadily building a buzz for his RCA records release “Ready Aim“. We were the first to debut the lyric video…

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Eleven-year-old Tayloni Mazyck (pictured), the Brooklyn girl paralyzed by a stray bullet to the neck on May 31st, is confident she will walk again, according…

Even though President Barack Obama (pictured at podium) said last week he wants to see immigration reform legislation passed by Congress by the end of…

A few hundred of New York City’s most gorgeous black women gathered at Union Square for, what the internet is now calling, a public interactive social…

Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington’s National Mall that will document African-American life. The National Museum of African American…

  Renowned Christian recording artist, Jaci Velasquez, will be recording a special song with her father, David Velasquez, for the first time in 20 years…