Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  Angie Stone  (Source: DeKalb County Police Department) By Phil Benson CBS46 LITHONIA, GA –CBS 46 in Atlanta reported that R&B singer and songwriter Angie Stone was arrested Tuesday in DeKalb County on suspicion of hitting her daughter in the face with a metal stand, police said.Stone was booked into jail on a charge…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Taraji P. Henson as “Cookie” in FOX’s ‘Empire’ By Tambay A. Obenson A companion piece to the UCLA Ralph Bunche Center’s own rather extensive, comprehensive report on diversity in the American film and TV industry, here’s the Writers Guild of America West’s own report on its findings on the state of diversity in writing…

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By Sergio Shadow and Act Alas, it’s the end of an era. Oprah Winfrey announced this week that Harpo Studios location in Chicago’s Near West Side will shut down at the end of the year and move to Los Angeles with the rest of Winfrey’s OWN network. OWN programming currently being produced at the Chicago…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Businessman and Audenreid High founder Kenneth Gamble and Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC talk  about success to their young audience.  (Photo Bill Z. Foster) By Kharisma McIlwaine What do you get when you put Philadelphia International founder Kenneth Gamble and Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels of Run DMC in the same room? The answer is…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Jill Marie Jones, Jahnee Wallace and Richard T. Jones in a scene from Hear No Evil. SILVER SPRING, MD– TVOne will present the network premiere of the edge-of-your seat thriller Hear No Evil on Saturday, March 14th at 8PM/ET. When a freak accident jolts Shelby Carson (Jahnee Wallace) — a 15-year-old hearing impaired…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Maxee Maxwell associated press LOS ANGELES — Maxee Maxwell, a member of the 1990s girl group Brownstone, died in a freak accident over the weekend. She was 46 years old. Her representative say she was at her home in Los Angeles Friday when she fell backward at the doorway between the house and…

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“American Crime,” ABC’s highly anticipated new drama from Oscar winning screenwriter John Ridley, follows the story of the brutal attack of a young couple in Modesto, California. Matt Skokie, a war vet, is murdered, and his wife, Gwen, is left unconscious, barely hanging on. The crime sends shock waves throughout the community stirring up tensions…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  John Ridley  (Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com) By Patty Gopez You may know John Ridley best for his work on 12 Years a Slave, which won the Oscar last year for Best Writing for an Adapted Screenplay. However, being an Oscar winner is just icing on the cake for the accomplished writer. Ridley also…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Clark Terry (AP Photo) By Charles J. Gans Associated Press NEW YORK–Legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who mentored Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and on “The Tonight Show,’’ has died. He was 94. Terry’s wife announced his death on his website…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Craig Robinson and his cohorts in a scene from Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Interview with Kam Williams Craig Robinson is arguably best known for his role as acerbic Dunder-Mifflin employee Darryl Philbin on NBC’s Emmy-winning “The Office.” Regardless of what role you know him from, he is definitely a world away from…

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