Jackson, MS — The JXN Film Festival is proud to announce that award-winning actress, educator, and arts advocate Dr. Tonea Stewart will lead a two-day intensive actor’s workshop on July 23rd and 24th in Jackson, Mississippi. This hands-on training wi ...
Posted Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 at 12:34PM
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Jackson, MS — The JXN Film Festival is proud to announce that award-winning actress, educator, and arts advocate Dr. Tonea Stewart will lead a two-day intensive actor’s workshop on July 23rd and 24th in Jackson, Mississippi. This hands-on training wi ...
Posted Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 at 12:34PM
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This is Part 2 of the ‘Syndee Winters Sings Lena Horne‘, a feature about the new album and show dedicated in tribute to the music and legacy of Ms. Horne.
Since I am writing this on the Jubilee celebration day of Juneteenth, I thought a continuati ...
Posted Friday, June 20th 2025 at 7:18PM
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Syndee Winters made her Broadway debut as future-queen ‘Nala’ in Disney’s The Lion King – a role she reprised in 2019, when she had the honorable opportunity to meet Sister ‘Nala,’ Beyonce, in preparation of The Lion King live-action film.
Syndee’ ...
Posted Tuesday, May 6th 2025 at 2:17PM
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Donald Harrison is an influential American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator, known for his contributions to both traditional jazz and contemporary styles. Born on August 4, 1960, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Harrison's roots in the ...
Posted Thursday, April 17th 2025 at 6:43PM
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The ‘Historic 1910 Recording of Jack Johnson’s Voice Unveiled by The Freeman Institute® Foundation’ under the leadership of Dr. Joel A. Freeman, has announced the discovery and public release of a 1910 audio recording of legendary boxer Jack Johnson ...
Posted Tuesday, January 28th 2025 at 9:40AM
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When we look at the young Hollywood actresses who are making an impact in the industry as content creators, we think of talents like Marsai Martin and Yara Shahidi from the hit comedy series ‘Black-ish’ who both inked deals for their production compa ...
Posted Thursday, November 14th 2024 at 10:48AM
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‘Trope’ is the new BET Plus horror thriller from writer/director B. Harrison Smith that stars Caryn Ward, Claudia Jordan and Asia Holiday (see cast listing link below).
The film centers around three women and two daughters who attend a cabin in t ...
Posted Thursday, September 5th 2024 at 11:32AM
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 ~ Dallas, TX.
Actress Tonea Stewart reprises her role as Vickie Wilson, the Dean at Terrell Christian College in the independent movie ‘The Golden Voices’ 2’.
From Director and Producer M. Legend Brown, ‘The Golden Voi ...
Posted Thursday, August 22nd 2024 at 8:38PM
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The Sandy Rodgers Show is set to air this Fall on the Black On Demand TV network that also streams on Roku and Amazon. Her show is lifestyle wellness fest that tackles today's issues we all have faced or will face on our journey through life.
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Posted Thursday, November 2nd 2023 at 12:52PM
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Sanetta Gipson is an actress, singer and author who has penned a deeply personal memoir "Our Family Secret: My Life with Momma' about the challenges and despairing effects her mother's mental illness had on her childhood and family.
Sanetta writes ...
Posted Wednesday, October 25th 2023 at 7:10PM
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Actress and Educator Tonea Stewart will take part in the 2023 JXN Film Festival July 23 through the 28th as a guest panelist to talk about what she has been most famously known for in a career that has spanned nearly 50 years since her first performa ...
Posted Saturday, July 1st 2023 at 3:03PM
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June 19th is a day of observance and reflection for most Americans known as Juneteenth, marking the end of slavery in 1865 on this date and the end of the Civil War two months earlier.
It is a day that was recently recognized as a federal holiday ...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st 2022 at 2:54PM
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In a time where the United States is in the throes of a pandemic that has taken more lives than both World Wars and the VietNam war combined.
Juxtaposed against the racial and social ills brought to a tipping point in 2020 over Black Lives Matter ...
Posted Friday, March 19th 2021 at 12:20AM
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Let me first start with saying this to any Madam C.J. Walker admirers, and to those who maybe heard of Annie Malone (many have not), this is not an attempt to be petty, or report anything against Walker.
This is a rebuttal to the essay that was wr ...
Posted Sunday, March 22nd 2020 at 9:32AM
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By the Mid-1970's Hip-Hop began to take the country by storm as an unstoppable music force, and although there was a resistance by the "established" music industry to push-back on what was seen as a "craze", born on the streets of New York and played ...
Posted Thursday, August 29th 2019 at 7:18PM
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Cynthia Horner has been the force behind one of America's most endearing entertainment social media publications for more than 40 years with the iconic, Right-On! Magazine. She still has the passion for the publication of entertainment news about the ...
Posted Sunday, April 7th 2019 at 3:00PM
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Pop music has a new soulful singer on the scene by the name of Taij B, and she knows what her potential is as a singer.
Berry Gordy, founder of the Motown music label, knew very early on that fusing great personalities to great songs was the key t ...
Posted Tuesday, March 19th 2019 at 6:42PM
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The tag line for Nana Camille Yarbrough's upcoming presentation at the world famous Schomburg Center on February 14th, 2019 in New York reads, "Celebrating Nana Camille's Journey as an Artist and Cultural Custodian". An appropriate phrase describing ...
Posted Monday, February 11th 2019 at 9:07PM
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Nadhege Ptah is a New York based actress, writer and director who has been screening her wonderful short film about love, trust, heritage and gentrification surrounding a young woman, Paris, who is desperate in her quest to pressure her grandfather i ...
Posted Monday, November 19th 2018 at 5:30PM
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Bill Duke's career spans almost 50 years, making him a Hollywood icon as both an actor and director. His passion for the Arts has not waned over the years, and he is determined to pass the torch on to our youth to keep the Arts alive.
He is someon ...
Posted Friday, September 21st 2018 at 8:56AM
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BYSB Talent Agency opened it's doors in 2017 and is described as a boutique talent agency. A small company that offers highly specialized services or products to their clientele with big talent agency experience in their founders, Angela Brown, Chris ...
Posted Wednesday, August 1st 2018 at 11:22AM
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There is a saying that to work smart is better than to work hard. Areshia McFarlin has been called a smart comic and actress because her work as a thespian, comedienne, writer and producer, is garnering her beads of success in a business where talent ...
Posted Friday, June 29th 2018 at 1:17PM
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Down South in Montgomery, AL. there is a voice and personality as big as all of the state itself. That voice and personality belongs to Dr. Tommie "Tonea" Stewart who is Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University, a ...
Posted Friday, July 7th 2017 at 11:08AM
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