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ABOVE PHOTO: Jason Alan Carvel (right) as Malcolm X in a scene from “Godfather of Harlem.”  (Photo credit Scott McDermott) By Kharisma McIlwaine Duality is the theme of the third season of “Godfather of Harlem.”  We see each of the characters grapple with the “yin and yang” in their lives and in the lives of…

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By Kharisma McIlwaine Philadelphia has always been recognized for having an incredible wealth of musicians. Upper Darby native Immanuel Wilkins is one of those musicians. Wilkins, an alto saxophonist and composer, has been fully immersed in the Philadelphia music world for quite some time. His relationship with the Philadelphia music world was enriched further as…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jonathan Majors at the premiere of Creed III at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX By Lolita C. Baldor ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The arrest of actor Jonathan Majors has upended the Army’s newly launched advertising campaign that was aimed at reviving the service’s struggling recruiting numbers. Majors, who authorities said was arrested Saturday…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Philanthropist, sports franchise executive and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television Sheila Johnson appears the 2013 Women’s Media Awards in New York on Oct. 8, 2013. Johnson’s upcoming memoir. “Walk Through Fire” will document her rise from a middle class family in Illinois to becoming a pioneering Black woman billionaire, and how she endured…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Tom Cruise poses for the media during the ‘Top Gun Maverick’ UK premiere at a central London cinema, on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Nostalgia sells and marketers know it, having used the brands of yesteryear fully aware that consumers will willingly open their wallets to scratch that sentimental itch. That winning formula is…

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ABOVE PHOTO: The North American tour Boleyn company of “SIX.”  (Photo by Joan Marcus) By Kharisma McIlwaine “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.” The aforementioned were the fates of the six wives of England’s King Henry VIII.  The cultural phenomenon and Tony Award-winning production, “Six the Musical” (“SIX”) tells the story of Henry VIII’s wives…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Lauryn Hill (Photo: Shutterstock.com) By Chevel Johnson Rodrigue ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Hip hop takes center stage at this summer’s Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans as the event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the genre with performances by Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion and Jermaine Dupri. Rap artist Doug E….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Actor Lance Reddick appears at the “White House Down” premiere in New York on June 25, 2013. Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” @Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, died suddenly on Friday, March 17, 2023. He was…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Shooting suspect Michael Boatwright arrives in the courtroom for the fifth day of jury deliberations in the XXXTentacion murder trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Emerging rapper XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, 20, was killed during a robbery outside of Riva Motorsports in Deerfield Beach in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This image released by Netflix shows Idris Elba in a scene from “Luther: The Fallen Sun.” (John Wilson/Netflix via AP) By Lindsey Bahr ASSOCIATED PRESS For anyone holding on to some latent hope that Idris Elba will be the next James Bond, I have some bad news: “Luther: The Fallen Sun” puts (another)…

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