Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  Michael B. Jordan (Photo: Phil Stafford / shutterstock)   (He could be playing a villain) By Tambay Obenson shadowandact.com If you weren’t already excited about the news of Lupita Nyong’o being “in talks” to star opposite Chadwick Boseman in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther movie, maybe the addition of Michael B. Jordan might help….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sweet Honey in the  Rock By Derrik J. Lang associated press LOS ANGELES — The a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock protested North Carolina’s law addressing LGBT rights and bathroom use by transgender people during its concerts in the state last weekend. The group performed as scheduled but protested in song…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Morley Safer  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) By Frazier Moore associated press NEW YORK — Morley Safer, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans’ view of…

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By Kay K. Bellamy Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, its black superheroes! While the nation’s first Black president is on his way out, Black superheroes are coming into the Marvel office. Not one, not two, but three black superheroes on the frontlines of ‘Captain America: Civil War’ made this…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Key and Peele in Keanu. Film review by Kam Williams Rell (Jordan Peele) was so inconsolable after being dumped by his girlfriend that getting high didn’t help ease the pain. But then, while crying on the shoulder of his cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key), a cute little kitten appeared on his doorstep. Seeing this…

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By Tambay Obenson shadowandact.com Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films will adapt the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” into a feature film for HBO. The movie, based on the book by  Rebecca Skloot, tells the story of Lacks, a poor, Black, mother of five from Baltimore who died of cervical cancer in 1951 at age…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Prince  (AP photo) By Barrington M. Salmon TriceEdneyWire.com Anika Trahan recalls sitting at her computer, at a friend’s house where she’s staying during a Washington, DC visit, when she first heard news that Prince, her musical icon and a seminal force in her life, had died. “It’s been hard. The only thing worse…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  “The Miki Howard Story” – Teyonah Parris By Tambay Obenson shadowandact.com I’m certainly encouraged by the moves TV One has been making, in order to bolster its standing in TV land, especially in terms of original scripted programming. Certainly not to be overshadowed by competitor BET Networks, TV One recently (less than a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Daniel Bellomy as Kevin Durant and Cassandra Freeman in as Wanda Pratt in Real MVP. By Cliff Brunt associated press OKLAHOMA CITY  — With a single sentence uttered by her world-famous son Kevin Durant, Wanda Pratt’s life changed forever. “You the real MVP.” The Oklahoma City Thunder star said those now-famous words during…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Lauryn Hill   (Photo: JStone / shutterstock)   associated press LOS ANGELES — Musician Lauryn Hill says she will ‘make it up’ to fans angry that she arrived over two hours late to a recent concert in Atlanta and performed for fewer than 40 minutes. Hill wrote on her Facebook page last Sunday…

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