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  • A look at “The Butler”

    A look at “The Butler”

    The film, which is slated for release on August 16, tells the true story of Eugene Allen, a butler who served at the White House from 1952 to 1986. Lee Daniels (Precious) is director of the film that stars Forest Whitaker as Allen, Oprah Winfrey as his wife, and David Oyelowo as his son. The movie was inspired by Wil Haygood’s Washington Post article about a black man (Eugene Allen) who served in the White House under eight presidents over [...]

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  • The 2013 Essence Festival: There’s Nothing Like It! July 4 – 7, New Orleans, LA

    The 2013 Essence Festival: There’s Nothing Like It! July 4 – 7, New Orleans, LA

    (Janelle Monae) The 2013 ESSENCE Festival, the 19th annual gathering of music, culture, community, empowerment and inspiration, is proud to announce its heavily anticipated night-by-night line-up.  The 2013 ESSENCE Festival, taking place July 4-7 in New Orleans, LA, promises to be the most exhilarating cultural celebration of the year; featuring a mix of bold names, exciting newcomers and cherished ESSENCE Festival favorites. Festival attendees will experience a dazzling aural event with the thrilling headlining line-up of Grammy-Award winners JILL SCOTT [...]

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  • Lifetime Original Movie “ Call Me Crazy”

    Lifetime Original Movie “ Call Me Crazy”

    The Lifetime Original Movie event Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, which brings together an all-star ensemble cast with five interwoven stories about how everlasting bonds of love and family can overcome life’s most challenging hurdles, will make its world premiere on Saturday, April 20, at 8:00pm ET/PT. Through the five shorts named after each title character — Lucy, Eddie, Allison, Grace and Maggie – powerful relationships built on hope and triumph raise a new understanding of what happens when [...]

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  • BronzeLens ReMix Series Returns with Screening of “Keeper of The Flame”

    BronzeLens ReMix Series Returns with Screening of “Keeper of The Flame”

    The BronzeLens Film Festival (BronzeLens) will kick-off its BronzeLens ReMix series with Keeper of the Flame, the first of two Best of BronzeLens films to be shown April 13 and 27, 7:00 p.m. at the Georgia Pacific Center Auditorium. Keeper of the Flame won the 2011 Audience Award for Best Short at the 8th Annual Patois New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and is writer/director/producer Brian Harrison-Nelson’s (Big Chief of the Guardians of the Flame Tribe) debut film.. “The [...]

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  • New movie: King’s Faith stars Emmy Award winning actress LYNN WHITFIELD. This movie hits theaters on April 26, 2013

    New movie: King’s Faith stars Emmy Award winning actress LYNN WHITFIELD. This movie hits theaters on April 26, 2013

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  • “Saggy Pants” Video targeted to Urban Youth in Metro Boston Area

    “Saggy Pants” Video targeted to Urban Youth in Metro Boston Area

    The Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts (BMHAM) a Boston based mental health advocacy organization recently released an anti-saggy pants video, which has run on major television outlets in the Boston market. The video targeted to young urban dwellers in Massachusetts is the brainchild of Dr. Omar Reid, President and Founder of BMHAM who says that the video’s purpose is to address the growing issue of young men walking in the streets of our communities without regard and respect for [...]

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  • Tyler Perry to present new movie “Peeples” in May

    Tyler Perry to present new movie “Peeples” in May

    Sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage. Writer and first-time director Tina Gordon Chism (writer of DRUMLINE) joins forces with Tyler Perry to present a laugh-out-loud look at the family ties that freak us out . . . but bind us together with love. Tyler Perry Presents “PEEPLES” stars Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson, [...]

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  • Update: Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry

    Update: Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry

    Tyler Perry’s popular sitcom For Better or Worse is coming to OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network with a third season of all new episodes debuting in the fall of 2013. In addition, the network has garnered the encore rights for the first two seasons of the sitcom’s 45 episodes that originally aired on TBS. For Better or Worse will mark OWN’s third scripted series from Perry who has an exclusive deal with the network to produce new television series and projects. [...]

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  • Historic Moves for Dance Theatre of Harlem

    Historic Moves for Dance Theatre of Harlem

     Dance Theatre of Harlem will celebrate a new legacy of success with  its April 10-14, 2013 Lincoln Center Performance in New York City. The upcoming April 10-14, 2013 New York City performance should not be missed. Dance Theatre of Harlem will blend the best of its past, present and future as it dances its way to new success in telling stories about life in ways that touch each person in different ways. This is a performance that you will remember [...]

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