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Oscar winner Octavia Spencer honored in hometown
Written by BOB JOHNSON | Associated Press 29 March 2012
Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer, center, arrives at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Spencer was greeted by more than 400 people as she arrived at the Statehouse ... read more >>

Jasmine in Bloom
Written by Kam Williams (Sentinel Contributing Writer 29 March 2012
Jasmine Guy The “October Baby” Interview Born in Boston on March 10, 1962, Jasmine Guy is a Renaissance woman with dancer, actress, singer, director, and writer on her resume. She performed in the ... read more >>

Aretha Franklin celebrates 70th, talks new music
Written by NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Associated Press 29 March 2012
Aretha Franklin attends her seventieth birthday party in New York, Saturday, March 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: ... read more >>

World Famous Laugh Factory Inks Deal at the New Tropicana Las Vegas
Written by Super User 23 March 2012
World Famous Laugh Factory Inks Deal at the New Tropicana Las Vegas The world famous Laugh Factory and the New Tropicana Las Vegas are launching a multi-venue comedy experience at the recently transformed ... read more >>

Celebrity Birthdays March 22 - March 28
Written by Sentinel News Service 22 March 2012
Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 22nd – March 28thStephanie Mills – March 22nd Marcus Camby – March 22ndGeorge Benson – March 22ndChaka Khan – March 23rdMoses Malone – March 23rdJason Kidd – March ... read more >>

August Wilson Monologue Competition
Written by Sentinel News Service 22 March 2012
August Wilson Monologue CompetitionLOUIS GOSSETT JR.JUDGES INCLUDE DENNIS HAYSBERT, LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. AND OTHERS It is the inspiration of the soaring, lyrical monologues found in the plays by Pulitzer ... read more >>

Bill Duke Youth and Media Boot Camp accepting applications
Written by Sentinel News Service 22 March 2012
Duke Media Foundation and Educating Young Minds To Co-Host Special Media Boot Camp for Students Age 14-18 LOS ANGELES -- The Duke Media Foundation and Educating Young Minds (both 501c3 corporations) ... read more >>

Black Media Alliance Statement on the Firing of Clear Channel’s Dan Sileo Over “Monkey” Remark
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 22 March 2012
LOS ANGELES – The following is a statement from the Black Media Alliance on the recent firing of Clear Channel host Dan Sileo after he made racially insensitive remarks on his show Mon. Mar. 12, on ... read more >>

DeRay Davis The “21 Jump Street” Interview
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 22 March 2012
DeRay Vision A born hustler from Chicago’s South Side, DeRay Davis began his career on the comedy club circuit and was first noticed by Hollywood while onstage at Atlanta’s Laffapalooza Festival. Shortly ... read more >>

Celebrity Birthdays March 15 – March 21
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 16 March 2012
Will.i.am – March 15th Sly Stone – March 15thSamuel “Lightin” Hopkins – March 15thBlake Griffin – March 16thFlavor Flav – March 16thNat King Cole – March 17thWilliam H. Johnson – March ... read more >>

Chaka Khan to raise funds for foundations
Written by Joy Childs (Sentinel Contributing Writer) 16 March 2012
Singer’s concert at Agape will benefit Carl Anderson Scholarship Fund and her foundationBack in 2004, a young Jewish boy named Andrew who loved Chaka Khan got on the stage at a Cure Autism Now (CAN) ... read more >>

Whitney Houston's daughter: 'She's always with me'
Written by By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Associated Press 16 March 2012
Oprah Winfrey, left, embraces Bobbi Kristina, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston during an interview in Atlanta, Ga. The exclusive interview will be shown on "Oprah's Next Chapter," on the OWN ... read more >>

Mariah Carey returns to stage since giving birth
Written by MESFIN FEKADU | Associated Press 07 March 2012
Singer Mariah Carey performs at Caesars Entertainment "Escape to Total Rewards" kick-off at Gotham Hall on Thursday, March 1, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)NEW YORK (AP) — Mariah Carey made ... read more >>

Celebrity Birthdays March 8th – March 14th
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 07 March 2012
Kenny Smith – March 8thBoris Kodjoe – March 8thHine Ward – March 8thBow Wow – March 9thChingy – March 9thOrnette Coleman – March 9thEmmanuel Lewis – March 9thTimbaland – March 10thJasmine ... read more >>

Singer Cee Lo Green announces Las Vegas residency
Written by Associated Press 07 March 2012
Singer Cee Lo Green shushes photographers as he poses with the Jubilee! showgirls before the Caesars Entertainment "Escape To Total Rewards" concert in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 1, 2012. Simultaneous ... read more >>

Gabrielle’s Got It Going On!
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 07 March 2012
Cast member Gabrielle Union poses at The Pan African Film & Arts Festival's opening night premiere of Screen Gems' "Think Like a Man" in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (CoverUp Photos)Gabrielle ... read more >>

Rapper denounces shooting at Arizona nightclub
Written by Associated Press 07 March 2012
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A rapper who was to perform at an Arizona nightclub until a shootout outside left 14 people wounded says his thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of "this senseless act of ... read more >>

A Conversation with Don B. Welch
Written by Marva Smith Special to the Sentinel 29 February 2012
Los Angeles is home to Hollywood; the land where dreams come true. Though the challenges faced by African Americans in Hollywood are great, every day, Black folk pack up their lives and move to Los Angeles ... read more >>

Celebrity Birthdays March 1st - March 7th
Written by Sentinel News Service 29 February 2012
Harry Belafonte - March 1stChris Webber - March 1st Herschel Walker - March 3rd Tone Loc - March 3rd Bobby Womack - March 4thKevin Johnson - March 4thGarrett Morgan - March 4thTeena Marie - March 5thMichael ... read more >>

Kerry in Her Very Own Words
Written by Kam Williams (Sentinel Contributing Writer 29 February 2012
Honoree Kerry Washington poses as Moet and Essence present "Black Women in Hollywood" at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA on Thursday, February 23, 2012. (Alex J. Berliner/ABImages) via AP ... read more >>

Good Deeds Indeed!
Written by Kam Williams (Sentinel Contributing Writer 23 February 2012
Tyler Perry The “Good Deeds” Interview Tyler Perry’s inspirational journey from the hard streets of New Orleans to the heights of Hollywood's A-list is the stuff of American legend. Born into poverty ... read more >>

Celebrity Birthdays February 16th – February 22nd
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 16 February 2012
Michael JordanRihannaCharles BarkleyIce – T – February 16thLeVar Burton – February 16thMichael Jordan – February 17thJim Brown – February 17thDr. Dre – February 18thToni Morrison – February ... read more >>

PAFF Night of Tribute honors 9 stars
Written by Joy Childs, Sentinel Contributing Writer 16 February 2012
Megan Good (photo by CoverUp Photos)By Joy ChildsSentinel Contributing WriterThough it got off to a bit of a late start Friday, it was well worth the wait to see nine prominent Africans and African Americans ... read more >>

Disney Stars perform at the 43rd Annual NAACP Luncheon
Written by Sentinel News Service 16 February 2012
Tyler James Williams (right) and Coco Jones perform at the NAACP Luncheon.Tyler James Williams, Coco Jones and Trevor Jackson, the stars of the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie, "Let It Shine," ... read more >>

GRAMMY Foundation’s 14th Annual Music Preservation Project Seeks to Safeguard Live Music’s Rich History
Written by Jason Lewis (Sports Editor) 16 February 2012
When it comes to the preservation of live music, the GRAMMY Foundation® has been at the forefront of the fight. Nowhere was that more evident than at the foundation’s 14th annual music preservation ... read more >>

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