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Via: radiofacts.com – Marking third year, network for African American adults will produce top-rated “TV One Night Only: Live From the ESSENCE Music Festival,” featuring some of the biggest names in entertainment from the main stage – Wednesday, June 29, 2011, Silver Spring, MD and New York – TV One (www.tvoneonline.com) and Essence (www.essence.com) have […]

Via: defendernetwork.com The National Museum of African American History and Culture has decided to collect items from Soul Train, the “hippest trip in America.” The popular television show was responsible for breaking many artists and giving them the platform to perform and be heard for 37 years. The Jackson 5, James Brown, The O’Jays, Stevie […]

    via:eurweb Diva Patti LaBelle filed a countersuit against a West Point cadet who claims he was the victim of an unprovoked attack by the singer’s bodyguards in Houston at Bush Intercontinental Airport. According to the original suit filed by Richard King a month ago, LaBelle ordered her three guards to beat him up. […]

  via:eurweb Broadway is calling on the Temptations. Otis Williams, the Motown group’s sole surviving founding member, says a stage musical is in the works based on the 1998 NBC miniseries, “The Temptations,” reports Billboard. Broadway producer Ira Pittleman is working with the group on the project. Read More

via:eurweb Actress Tia Mowry and her husband of two years, Cory Hardrict, welcomed a son Tuesday in Los Angeles, her rep confirms exclusively to Us Weekly. It is the first child for the 32-year-old actress, who starred opposite her identical twin, Tamera, on the ’90s sitcom “Sister Sister” and now appears on BET’s “The Game.” […]

via:eurweb Tavis Smiley will sit down with four wrongfully-convicted men who, despite their innocence, spent more than a combined 50 years in prison. The conversation airs on the award-winning PBS program Tavis Smiley, exclusively on Chicago’s WYCC-TV this Wednesday, June 29 and nationwide on public television Thursday, June 30 and Friday, July 1, 2011. Read […]

  via:eurweb Kenneth Williams went to prison for strangling his great-aunt with a telephone cord in 1989, the same year his father was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before entering prison, the younger Williams asked his sister to save his share of royalty checks he inherited from his dad, Paul Williams, […]

Disney and Pixar Cars 2 races into theaters this weekend. An exciting, fast pace comedy that the whole family will enjoy.  A light summer feast for the senses that will have the whole family vrooming, for sure. Lightning McQueen and Mater are sure keep you on the edge of your seat as they race to the finish […]

via:blackamericaweb You’ve seen him on “Let’s Make a Deal.” You’ve seen him on his own Emmy Award-winning daytime talk show. You’ve seen him in that hilarious, now-classic bit on “The Chapelle Show” on which he poked fun at his own super-square image. Brady’s latest project is “Radio Wayne,” his album on Walt Disney Records, which […]

  via:eurweb Twins Tia and Tamera Mowry, who first starred together in the sitcom “Sister, Sister,” are teaming up once again for their new show, “Tia & Tamera,” an eight-episode reality series to debut on the Style Network Aug. 10, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series follows the 32-year-olds as Tia goes through her […]