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By Lindsey Bahr ASSOCIATED PRESS Actors represented by the Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA voted Monday evening to authorize a strike if they don’t agree on a new contract with major studios, streamers and production companies by June 30. The strike authorization was approved by an overwhelming margin — nearly 98% of the 65,000 members who cast…

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ABOVE PHOTO: ACTOR CUBA GOODING JR. appears in court, Jan. 22, 2020, in New York. It was revealed Tuesday that Gooding has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. (Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, File, Pool)  By Larry Neumeister ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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Catch the excitement all month long starting June 3 ABOVE PHOTO: Roxanne Shanté accepts roses for 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Photo Credit_ Prince Williams CHICAGO, IL.–The 8th Annual Black Music Honors will keep music lovers glued to their seats for a not-to-be-missed electrifying experience debuting on the Stellar Network on June 3. The highly-anticipated…

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By Donna Edwards ASSOCIATED PRESS Seeing the other children at the park playing with water guns, Darrin asks his mom for one. Her immediate response: No. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell’s graphic memoir “The Talk” begins around age 6, when his mom first has “the talk” with him — the one about racism, fear…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A PEDESTRIAN PASSES A MURAL OF RAP PIONEER JAM MASTER JAY OF RUN-DMC, by artist Art1Airbrush, Aug. 18, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. A third man has been charged in the 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, prosecutors said Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)  ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW…

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ABOVE PHOTO: ‘Be Holding’ is staged at the court in the Girard College Armory  (Photo by Ryan Collerd)  By Constance Garcia-Barrio Into this season that finds so many Black families grieving comes the production of Ross Gay’s book-length poem, “Be Holding,” like shimmering hope.  Staged in the huge gymnasium/armory at Girard College — “It’s a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This image released by Disney shows Halle Bailey as Ariel in “The Little Mermaid.”  (Disney via AP)  By Andrew Dalton ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — “ The Little Mermaid ” made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend. Disney’s live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the…

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By Adam Kealoha Causey ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS  — When Tina Turner died at age 83, I found myself drifting back to the fourth grade, to the day I truly discovered her voice. I was on Thanksgiving break — bored — when I decided to rummage through my parents’ old cassette tapes in search of entertainment….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Director Ramata-Toulaye Sy poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Banel & Adama’ at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) By Jake Coyle associated press CANNES, France  — Most filmmakers in the Cannes Film Festival’s top-rung competition lineup are…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A scene from “Beetlejuice The Musical”from left: Britney Coleman (Barbara), Will Burton (Adam), Isabella Esler (Lydia) and Justin Collette (Beetlejuice).  Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2022  By Kharisma McIlwaine “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…” one shouldn’t finish that phrase unless they welcome what follows.  The 1988 movie “Beetlejuice” became an instant cult classic and remains a fan…

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