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Asbury Park: Local Filmmaker Releases Movie About Urban Life Starring Detroit City Youth | City.Life.Style. | The Michigan Chronicle
A local Detroit filmmaker recently released a new movie aimed at mental illness and police brutality while giving the city’s youth a chance to appear on the big screen. Filmed throughout the city, including titled street Asbury Park, the movie tells the story of four Detroit kids growing into
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‘Candyman’ Marks First-Ever No. 1 Film For a Black Female Director
It's looking like the new 'Candyman' film might be an exception to Hollywood's issue with reboots after it not only topped the box office this week but also made Nia DaCosta the first Black female director to earn that Hollywood honor.
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By Olayiwola Balogun - It was a gathering of crème de la crème of British Africans who gathered to honour Nollywood UK Best Actress, Cordelia Emeh, as she celebrated her Golden Jubilee, at the Andaz Hotel London, on Saturday, 29th August 2021. The multiple award-winning Nollywood UK actress stepped
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In the season of racial equality and diversity in leadership, former development director Amber Rasberry accepted the position of a senior film executive at Amazon Studios. With a long history in the film production industry, Rasberry has a portfolio supporting the well-deserved position as
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Good Morning, Good Morning!  If you have ever been in a place of business in the Virgin Islands, you may have been bewildered at a behavior slightly unique to this incredible place and its culture.  I remember, in my early years on St. John, standing in what seemed to be an endless line at First
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Decades of struggle and hardship paid off when United States elected a black president. It is still too early to say that discrimination has been completely abolished from U.S as different races are being targeted instead of blacks. The blacks who used to be traded to western countries and kept as
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Ray Fisher Finally Opens Up About Joss Whedon's Mishandling Of 'Justice League'
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