Sony Pictures Classics is set to release its highly anticipated award-winning film, WE GROWN NOW coming to a theater near you! The heart-wrenching film will be released in New York, Los Angeles & Chicago on April 19, 2024, nationwide on April 26, 202 ...
Posted Friday, April 19th 2024 at 4:44AM
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About SHIRLEY
SHIRLEY tells the story of the first Black congresswoman and political icon, Shirley Chisholm, and her trailblazing run for president of the U.S. It chronicles her audacious, boundary-breaking 1972 presidential campaign.
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Posted Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 at 6:25AM
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Los Angeles, CA – Wednesday, March 27, 2024 – GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced that the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles p ...
Posted Thursday, March 28th 2024 at 1:19AM
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Black Experience on Xfinity, comedian, actor, writer, and director Affion Crockett, and producer Delmar Washington (Ximen Media), celebrated the new, three-part innovative comedy series, Affion Crockett Presents: Microphone Masters, with a world pre ...
Posted Sunday, March 24th 2024 at 6:04AM
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(Harlem, NY – March 2024) — In its 14th celebratory year, the nationally syndicated Café Mocha radio show’s Salute HER Awards shined a light on Black women who have made history and have excelled beyond odds in honor of Women’s History Month. The ...
Posted Sunday, March 24th 2024 at 5:58AM
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The cast of the new BET dark comedy drama series "Diarra from Detroit'' recently graced the panel at Essence Hollywood House, sparking an engaging conversation that was as enlightening as it was entertaining. The panel featured the stars of the s ...
Posted Wednesday, March 20th 2024 at 5:26AM
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The 96th Academy Awards
In a press room interview Da'Vine Joy Randolph talks with multi award winning entertainment journalist Tanisha LaVerne Grant about how creatives can use their adversity as a superpower to stay the course. Da'Vine took home t ...
Posted Tuesday, March 12th 2024 at 3:04AM
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Los Angeles, California – March 8,2024 – ESSENCE Hollywood House returned to Los Angeles for its fifth annual event featuring some of the industry’s most notable names and executives from film and television. Hosted by Skye Townsend, the event focuse ...
Posted Monday, March 11th 2024 at 7:10PM
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Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) Spotlight Screening of “Sacred Soil: The Piney Woods School Story”
WHEN: This Saturday, February 10th
WHERE: Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw: 4020 Marlton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90008 *Parking available onsite
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Posted Friday, February 9th 2024 at 6:28AM
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Rustin is a 2023 American biographical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe, from a screenplay by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, and a story by Breece about the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Produced by Barack and Michelle ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:56PM
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Abbott Elementary is an American mockumentary sitcom television series created by Quinta Brunson for ABC. It stars Brunson as Janine Teagues, a perpetually optimistic second-grade teacher at the underfunded Abbott Elementary, a fictional predominan ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:37PM
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The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson in his feature writing debut. Set in 1970-1971, it stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding schoo ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:24PM
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American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson, in his feature directorial debut. Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the film follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an ou ...
Posted Thursday, February 1st 2024 at 4:08PM
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SNOWFALL the last project from the late Oscar nominated director John Singleton has been nominated for 6 NAACP IMAGE AWARDS. The all-star cast lead by Damson Idris as"Franklin Saint" has been vocal about upholding John's legacy in television and fi ...
Posted Wednesday, January 31st 2024 at 2:29PM
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“Luther: Never Too Much,” the documentary film, chronicles the story of a vocal virtuoso. Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Di ...
Posted Wednesday, January 31st 2024 at 12:25AM
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Multi award winning entertainment journalist Tanisha LaVerne Grant hits the red carpet at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, CA where she talks with actress Erika Alexander about her award worthy performance in American Fiction.
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Posted Monday, January 22nd 2024 at 3:51PM
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Multi award winning entertainment journalist Tanisha LaVerne Grant hits the red carpet at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, CA where she talks with comedian Cedric the Entertainer about the controversial Katt Williams interview o ...
Posted Wednesday, January 10th 2024 at 2:05PM
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Brook Kerr gets candid about portraying a doctor with multi award winning entertainment journalist Tanisha LaVerne Grant at the 50th DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS. ...
Posted Wednesday, December 20th 2023 at 7:08PM
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Multi award winning entertainment journalist Tanisha LaVerne Grant chats with Kym Whitley at the 50th DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS held on December 15th at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Kym talks about her friendship with Sherri Shepherd and how they ...
Posted Monday, December 18th 2023 at 2:15PM
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Multi award winning entertainment journalist Tanisha LaVerne Grant talks with The Bold and the Beautiful actress Cassandra Creech at the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards. ...
Posted Monday, December 18th 2023 at 12:16PM
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GRAMMY-nominated rapper, Tierra Whack, first gained recognition at the age of 15 when she stunned viewers with her slick poetry while rapping for a YouTube channel on a Philadelphia street. The video rapidly drew thousands of views and marked the ...
Posted Thursday, December 14th 2023 at 7:14PM
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Directed by | Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz
Produced by | Gelila Bekele, Jasmine K. White, and Asante White
Synopsis | Writer, actor, filmmaker, studio head and media titan, Tyler Perry, is America’s consummate multihyphenate. But underneath ...
Posted Friday, November 17th 2023 at 4:20AM
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