Entertainment

A veteran publicist is the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization’s board of governors elected Cheryl Boone Isaacs to the position Tuesday evening. She is the first woman to hold the post in three decades and the first African American president in the academy’s history.

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Starz announced the U.S. television premiere of the musical drama “Dancing on the Edge,” an original miniseries from the multi-award winning writer/director Stephen Poliakoff (Glorious 39, “Gideon’s Daughter,” “The Lost Prince”), is set to premiere on STARZ in October 2013. 

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The documentary Hip Hop: The New World Order, a film exploring the global impact of Hip Hop in 8 international cities (Tokyo, Havana, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro, and Johannesburg) will premiere at The BlackStar Film Festival in Philaldelphia on Saturday, August 3rd

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This emerging “conflict,” as Mr Belafonte said, wasn’t a direct attack on Jay-Z and Beyonce. He was at a press conference in Switzerland, and the press who were present, asked him about the level of activism, political/social engagement of artists today, compared to artists of his (Belafonte’s) time, decades ago.

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The story of her arrival reveals a fearless dream chaser who is on her way to proving that she can hold her own among the heavy radio competitions in the City of Brotherly Love. O’Rourke moved to Philadelphia, with no friends or family, when she was offered a position with a local modeling agency.

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Hypnotizing audiences as D’Artagnan, the slave who was mauled to death by dogs in Django Unchained, Ato Essandoh stars as Dr. Matthew Freeman in the second season of BBC America’s highest-rated series premiere ever, “Copper.” Born in Schenectady, New York on July 29, 1972…

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Veteran detective Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) is very content between his 15-year career with the Boston Police Department and being happily-married to the love of his life, Julia (Stefanie Szostak). However, his American Dream is irreversibly ruined the fateful day he is assigned to bring down a drug cartel…

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Ava DuVernay is taking over directing duties of the Martin Luther King Jr feature project and that David Oyelowo, who was to star in Daniels’ project, will stay onboard to play MLK, reuniting with DuVernay (he co-starred in her 2012 acclaimed sophomore effort, Middle Of Nowhere).

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Sharpton, 58, attended the New York County Democratic Committee Award Ceremony on Monday night accompanied by Aisha McShaw, a 35-year-old from Westchester, New York. It’s the first relationship Sharpton has made public since the demise of his 24-year marriage to Kathy Jordan in 2004.

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As seen above, the magazine’s July 22 “Fruitvale Station” edition sports a new logo, brighter cover and more info graphics. Jet has also updated it’s website to match the new-look print edition white still maintaining the compact booklet format readers are accustomed to.

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