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Twitter anger at Limpopo artists missing out on #SAMA26 nominations
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Steven Canals talks Pose, success and Afro-Latin identity
Steven Canals is still taking it all in. The 39-year-old Bronx native became an overnight TV sensation when Pose, the... View Article The post Steven Canals talks Pose, success and Afro-Latin identity appeared first on TheGrio.
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T.I. to Teach Class On the Business of Trap Music at Atlanta HBCU Free Press of Jacksonville
By Cassidy Sparks Tip “T.I.” Harris is headed to the classroom. The rapper and businessman will be lending his music industry expertise to students at Clark Atlanta University next semester teaching an innovative new course [...]
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Dame Dash accuses Lifetime, Growing Up Hip Hop of exploiting his relationship with Aaliyah - TheGrio
Hip hop mogul Damon Dash believes that white cable network executives have a nasty habit of exploiting his relationship with... View Article The post Dame Dash accuses Lifetime, Growing Up Hip Hop of exploiting his relationship with Aaliyah appeared first on TheGrio.
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Jamie, Denzel, Angela? Debate Breaks Out Over Who Portrayed Their Real-Life Figures the Best
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Ava DuVernay, Lena Waithe and Will Packer Talk What Theyre Currently Seeing In Hollywood During the Nationwide Protests
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Impatience grows for cops arrests in Breonna Taylors death | The Atlanta Voice
The outcry has reverberated for weeks online and at demonstrations nationwide: Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor. But three months after plainclothes detectives serving a warrant busted into her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment and shot the 26-year-old Black woman to death, only one of the
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Siskel Film Center’s ‘Film Center from your Sofa’ presents new releases | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) continues “Film Center from Your Sofa: Stay Connected and Stream with Us.” New releases that started late last month are “Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things” and “The Invisible
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#AAMAM: Celebrating New Orleans Funk and Soul (LISTEN)
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T.I. Expresses Excitement About Teaching a Course Called the Business of Trap Music at Clark Atlanta University This Fall
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Sandra J. Evers-Manly Accepts Invitation to Join The 2020 Class of Members to The Motion Pictures Academy - L.A. Focus Newspaper
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‘SNL’ Alum Jay Pharoah on the moment police officers kneeled on his neck [VIDEO] | New Pittsburgh Courier
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