by Sentinel News Service
Recently awarded Gold & Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) – to certify over a million albums...
by Sherri Kolade
Recently, critically-acclaimed gospel artist Kirk Franklin and his wife Tammy Collins were interviewed by Tamron Hall on her ‘Tamron Hall Show’ and...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Winners of the BET Awards, presented Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles:
Video of the Year — Beyonce, "Formation"
Best...
ATLANTA (AP) — Lecrae is dubbed a Christian rapper, but he considers himself a rapper who happens to be Christian.
The Grammy-winning artist (his album...
In this Feb. 3 photo, Beyonce performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, in New Orleans. The singer headlines at the 2013 Essence Music Festival, with other nightly concerts held in the Superdome to include, Maxwell, Jill Scott, Charlie Wilson, LL Cool J, New Edition, Emile Sande, Trey Songz, Janelle Monae and several others. The festival dates are July 4-7, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) by Chevel Johnson NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly two decades after Essence magazine launched a festival here to "party with a purpose" and celebrate Black culture, music and people, the Essence Fest may be facing some new competition. Like Essence this weekend, last weekend's BET Experience, held in Los Angeles, had Beyonce as a headliner. It also had panels discussing topics important to the community and spanned a three-day weekend — a format Essence until recently had used for years. But Michelle Ebanks, president of Essence Communications Inc., said the similarities end there.
