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DFW Black Restaurant Meet Up - Dallas Post Tribune
DFW Black Restaurant Meet Up!!! Let's get together to Support Black Business!!! This will be a fun event open to Everyone in The Black Community. We will support a Black Owned Restaurant in DFW every 2nd Saturday of each Month. There will be Free Entry, Plenty of Networking, and Great Opportunities
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Debbie Allen hosted Raven-Symonés wedding in her garden, cooked food
Acclaimed choreographer and actress Debbie Allen shared that she hosted Raven-Symone’s intimate wedding to Miranda Maday. The post Debbie Allen hosted Raven-Symonés wedding in her garden, cooked food appeared first on TheGrio.
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Stars gather for online festival to combat hunger in Amazon rainforest
More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest. And to help them, a group of musicians and celebrities from around the world will come together for an online music festival. SOS Rainforest Live, organized by Rainforest
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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.
Simon & Schuster names Dana Canedy as first Black publisher - TheGrio
Simon Schuster announced on Monday that Dana Canedy is their new senior vice president and publisher of its namesake... View Article The post Simon Schuster names Dana Canedy as first Black publisher appeared first on TheGrio.
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Matthew A. Cherry's Academy Award-Winning 'Hair Love' Short to Be Turned into TV Series for HBO Max
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Legendary Singer Deniece Williams Join Other Big Stars at NNPA Virtual Conference
Williams, whose transformed RB, pop, and gospel music over her extraordinary five-decade career, joins Stephanie Mills, Anthony Hamilton, Carlos Santana, and Salt-N-Pepa in a star-studded lineup of musical talent appearing at the first virtual conference in the 193-year history of the Black Press
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(BPRW) Founder of Black Online Therapy to Host a Virtual Healing The Black Woman Inside 2-Day Intensive | Press releases
(BPRW) Founder of Black Online Therapy to Host a Virtual Healing The Black Woman Inside 2-Day Intensive To register: bit.ly/healingtheblackwoman2020 (Black PR Wire) Black women are essential to our homes
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Janelle Monae says filming Antebellum on plantation was triggering
Janelle Monáe is at the top of her game when it comes to balancing her music career with her huge acting gigs but the talented star struggled while filming her upcoming horror flick, Antebellum.  She opened up about the triggering experience of filming on a plantation during a recent roundtable
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Sandra J. Evers-Manly Accepts Invitation to Join The 2020 Class of Members to The Motion Pictures Academy - L.A. Focus Newspaper
The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) announced today the invitation extended by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to Sandra J. Evers-Manly, to join the 2020 class of new members. As a filmmaker who benefited from Sandra’s support with an Oscar
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ALL OVER TOWN: ‘Black Man’ makes a statement for African American Music Month - TSDMemphis.com
Memphis singer-songwriter Brandon Lewis depicts the painful institutional mistreatment of Black men in his new single, titled “Black Man.” “Black Man. I’m still a man. It shouldn’t matter about the color skin that I’m in, I’m still a man. A Black man.” Though the single was written and recorded
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The worlds gonna know your name - Viral video of 20-year-old student stuns Disney, Sony - Face2Face Africa
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White actresses step down from voicing Black cartoon roles - TheGrio
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Apple and Disney prove reopening isnt easy | The Atlanta Voice
Companies that were forced to shut down parts of their business due to Covid-19 have seen this summer as a chance to start getting back on track. But surging cases in a number of US states are forcing firms like Disney and Apple to scuttle their plans or reverse course, underscoring the difficulty
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Viola Davis Calls Out Film Industry for Still Failing to Pay Her What She’s Worth - Houston Forward Times
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Hammonds House Museum presents Black Classical Muse virtual concert | Atlanta Daily World
Hammonds House Museum presents Black Classical Muse virtual concert on June 28 at 4 pm Hammonds House Museum, through their new Hammonds House Digital programming, is creating and curating rich arts and cultural experiences that reach audiences beyond the walls of the museum. Black Classical
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Ava DuVernay, Lena Waithe and Will Packer Talk What Theyre Currently Seeing In Hollywood During the Nationwide Protests
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Rickey Smileys daughter shot three times in Houston
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Kanye West and GAP announce 10-year partnership
Kanye West has been tapped to reenergize the flagging retail brand, The Gap. He will bring Yeezy Gap to stores in early 2021. The post Kanye West and GAP announce 10-year partnership appeared first on TheGrio.
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Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes for Using Blackface, N-Word During Past Karl Malone and Snoop Dogg Impressions
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Kerry Washington Wants to Reexamine the Language Surrounding the Topics of Diversity and Inclusivity
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The Disney Co. is Now in Business with Colin Kaepernick. That Says More About Him Than it Does About Disney. - Free Press of Jacksonville
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