Singer, Ben Vereen, born, 1946

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BET Awards ’20: Meet The Best Collab Nominees

Fans Will Not Be Happy About This Male RB Singer Calling Out Beyoncé, SZA And Cardi B "Stop using that f**king pain to make it OK to say some bullsh** on your record and get nominated for a Grammy..."

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Colin Kaepernick Signs Deal With Walt Disney

The deal extends across ‘The Undefeated,’ Hulu and Pixar.

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Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith’s younger sister, Willow Smith (born 2000), is a pop singer and actress. He also has a half-brother, Trey Smith, from his father’s earlier marriage to Sheree Zampino.

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Teyana Taylor Announces Closure Of Her Junie Bee Nail Salon

Besides being a singer, rapper, songwriter, dancer and actress, Teyana Taylor also owns her own nail salon, Junie Bee Nails, named after her four-year-old daughter in New York

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The Lineage of ‘Lemonade’

Tyina Steptoe, PhD, an author and associate professor at the University of Arizona, says the ebbs and flows of gender and sex politics would affect the trajectory of women in music for decades, but national events and movements like the civil rights movement, which centered respectability, would

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Cardi B, Rihanna, Ice Cube Urge People To Vote In Primaries

"Vote for the change you want!!!"

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BET Awards 20: 5 Times Stars Made Political Statements On The Red Carpet

2020 BET Awards will virtually premiere June 28 at 8pm EST.

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Tanzania: I've Been Battling Alcoholism Secretly - Vanessa Mdee

The Tanzanian singer and songwriter, in her podcast titled One on One with Vanessa Mdee, talks about family, love, music and battling alcoholism and the difficulties of being an artiste in a secular

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Ciara Had The Best Beauty Look At The 2020 ESPY Awards

And though the ceremony was virtual this year, there were still some notable beauty moments from the makeshift red carpet sprawled along his

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Deitrick Haddon - "I Can't Breathe"

Fans Will Not Be Happy About This Male RB Singer Calling Out Beyoncé, SZA And Cardi B "Stop using that f**king pain to make it OK to say some bullsh** on your record and get nominated for a Grammy..."

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Jason Derulo Clearly Has Too Much Time On His Hands

He seems to be pivoting from music to Tik Tok pranks.

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'I'm Here for It': Masika Kalysha Jokingly Reveals the Name of Alleged New Boo

Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new

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Beyonce Releases Trailer For New Disney Visual Album, ‘Black Is King’

In collaboration with Disney, Bey is releasing a visual album inspired by The Lion King titled Black Is King that she wrote, produced and

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Beloved UK wartime singer Vera Lynn dies at 103

Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged

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Gloria Reuben

Gloria Reuben (born June 6, 1964) is known as a Canadian-American singer and actress of both TV and film. She is well known for her role as Jeanie Boulet in ER as well as other medical drama related shows. Reuben was born to Peal Avis who was a classicist singer and Cyril Reuben who was an

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Zendaya Filmed Quarantine Movie with John David Washington

Zendaya has taken her quarantine experience to new heights!

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BET Awards 20: Best Male and Female Actor Winners at the BET Awards

2020 BET Awards will virtually premiere June 28 at 8pm EST.

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Michael Jordan Announces Donation Towards Racial Equity

"Black lives matter. This isn’t a controversial statement."

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Popular African-American Musicians

In 1926, a Harvard scholar by the name of Dr. Carter G. Woodson organized the first annual Negro History Week. The said event happened in the second week of February which also coincides with the birthdays of two great civil rights leaders: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In honor of the

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Police officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting fired

The Louisville Metro police department has fired one of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, more than three months after the 26-year-old Black woman was killed in her

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Josephine Baker Picture Gallery: Her Career in Photos

In 2008, dancer and entertainer Josephine Baker was honored at Madame Tussauds in Berlin in this iconic pose, her banana dance from her 1920s act with the Folies Bergère, based in

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FKA Twigs Takes Quarantine Workout To New Level By Pole Dancing In Her Livingroom

FKA Twigs has been practicing her pole dancing skills for the past few years, and her moves are

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African American History and Women Timeline 1940-1949

During the 1940s and 1950s, many African Americans from the South migrated to the North to work in industry there, in what is called the Great

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Alicia Keys

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BET Awards 20 Hosts: Where Are They Now?

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12-Year-old Protest Singer Keedron Bryant Lands Recording Contract With Warner Records

Now, Bryant will be able to pursue his musical career dreams with a new record deal with Warner

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12-year-old “I Just Wanna Live” singer Keedron Bryant signs record deal with Warner

Now, he’s landed a record deal with Warner Records and released his song as a single, according to The Associated

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Mahalia Jackson

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Dancehall artiste drops ‘Dem Boys’, a pithy commentary on local music industry

Dancehall singer/songwriter Clayton ‘Maad Raas’ Smyrna is celebrating his 43rd birthday today, by dropping his newest single, “Dem Boys”, which speaks of his personal experiences in the local music

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