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by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent While a festival with 350,000 people on Crenshaw Boulevard isn’t in the cards because of the...

NEW ORLEANS  — Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton was serenaded by her sisters, The Braxtons, while award-winning actress Wendy Raquel Robinson enveloped the theater with her incandescent…

ATLANTA — LaToya Luckett’s face was aglow like soft dinner candles on the set of the upcoming TV One sitcom “Here We Go Again.” Even though…

ATLANTA — The august audience inside the Marriott Marquis ballroom wanted to do what “Girlfriends Getaway” director Roger Bobb did: hug Essence Atkins after her she…

This is not a story about the rapper The Game who was born Jayceon Terrell Taylor on Nov. 29, 1979 and is better known...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a year rich with Black-oriented films, nominees for the NAACP Image Awards include "12 Years a Slave" and "Lee...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Flight," ''Django Unchained," ''Beasts of the Southern Wild," ''Red Tails" and "Tyler Perry's Good Deeds" are up for the outstanding motion picture trophy at the NAACP Image Awards. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced the nominations Tuesday for the awards that honor diversity in the arts. The 44th annual ceremony is scheduled to air Feb. 1 on NBC. NOMINATED--Jamie Foxx as Django and Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candle star in the film, "Django Unchained," directed by Quentin Tarantino. "Flight," "Django Unchained," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Red Tails" and "Tyler Perry's Good Deeds" are up for the outstanding motion picture trophy at the 44th annual NAACP Image Awards. (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Andrew Cooper, SMPSP)