ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, a graduate of Winston-Salem University in North Carolina, is creating a new docuseries that will focus heavily on the history and importance of Americaâs HCBUs. The show is being produced with director Elaine Oliver, the director and
By Marianne Garvey, CNN Gayle King’s daughter Kirby Bumpus and her longtime boyfriend Virgil Miller tied the knot at Oprah Winfrey’s house in a socially distanced celebration in December, reports O Magazine. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bumpus and Miller, who live
The Oscar-nominated and BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning feature film animation studio LAIKA is best known for animated films like Coraline, Kubo, and the Two Strings, Missing Link. They are partnering up with Bowie State University to fund the first in the
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Cicely Tyson was a petite woman, but to those lucky enough to walk any of the paths she carved in Hollywood, she was the giant on whose shoulders they stood. Tyson, an actress known for her pioneering career
Writer, educator and Trenton-native Maurice âRaheemâ Mander has dedicated the past two decades of his life marrying his love for history, creativity and his hometown of Trenton, NJ into a comic book titled âSurian Seed:HBCU Superheroes.â The comic, and soon to be
By Lisa Respers France, CNN Actor and singer Tyrese Gibson has announced that he and his wife Samantha have split after four years. Gibson shared the news on his verified Instagram account Tuesday. In a caption on a photo showing Gibson kissing
By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN John “Ecstasy” Fletcher, founder of the 1980s hip-hop group Whodini, died Wednesday at 56, according to a statement released by his family. In the statement confirming his death, daughter Jonnelle Fletcher called him “a most endeared, generous, and
 Soulidifly Productions, a film company with a mission to produce meaningful, uplifting stories that are entertaining and beautifully told, has partnered with TRIAL X FIRE, LLC, the distribution branch of Urban Home Entertainment, to release Joseph to audiences everywhere on video-on-demand starting
A coalition of companies from every sector of the music business, including SONY MUSIC GROUP, CONCORD MUSIC GROUP, GRANDSTAND MEDIA and SUB POP RECORDS, have connected with leading HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCUs), using a career portal created by a group
iHeartRadio’s HBCU Homecoming Party on the Yard, presented by McDonaldâs Black and Positively Golden, capped off iHeart’s month-long celebration of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. For the final event of iHeart’s HBCU Homecoming Celebration on Thursday (November 12), Breakfast Club co-host and Hampton University alum DJ Envy hosted
