By Clare Mulroy Women’s History Month is almost at a close, but there is still time to add empowering reads to your TBR before March is over. Stories of unsung female heroes are having a moment, like Kristin Hannah’s “The Women,” which spotlights the “forgotten”
By Brandon Griggs, CNN Poetry and football. Two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence. One is a lyrical, niche art form. The other is a violent, mass-consumed sport. There’s something discordant about putting them together, like a mash-up gone
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 “Raheem” 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 ‘Surian Seed:HBCU Superheroes.’ 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
