NMAAM Rolls Out Year-Long Digital Educational Programming
Voice & Viewpoint Newswire This month, Nashville, Tennessee’s National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) made music virtually available for everyone across the country to enjoy. NMAAM...
View ArticleR&B Singer Pamela Rose Hutchinson Passes at 61
Part of the Grammy-Award-winning group, The Emotions, Pamela Rose was one of the four sisters who began as a church group and continued to fame. As the gospel group, the Hutchinson Sunbeams, they...
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FILM REVIEW: The 2020 American Black Film Festival – Goes Virtual
In the age of COVID, film festival directors are finding creative ways to screen movies for audiences without gathering large groups at indoor venues. Hence the 2020 ABFF Online Edition. For those who...
View ArticleAttorneys for Bill Cosby Lay Out Why Supreme Court Should Toss Conviction
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Over a month ago, lawyers for Bill Cosby formerly filed a motion to the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, seeking to overturn the three...
View ArticleRemembering Johnny Nash
A.L. Haynes | Voice & Viewpoint Actor, singer, writer, producer, and rancher – international star Johnny Nash was all of these and more. In a lifetime some would find enviable, he travelled the...
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‘Bad Hair’ Movie Explores Black Women And Hairstyle Messages
JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. | AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – Several scenes in the film “Bad Hair” were so horrifying that some cast members initially second-guessed their own use of hair weave or...
View ArticleFILM: Black Voices Are Loud and Clear at New York Film Festival
Attesting to NYFF’s eagerness to hear black voices, the fest featured three main slate films from British director/writer Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave’’) that are part of a five-episode West Indian...
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FILM REVIEW: Radioactive
By Dwight Brown, NNPA Newswire Film Critic Rosamund Pike makes a lot of good choices. Check out her filmography and some of her very impressive feminist roles: A courageous war correspondent in A...
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Budding Gospel Artist Rekeshia Bennett: ‘There Will Be More Music Coming!’
Percy Crawford | Zenger News Edited by Stan Chrapowicki and Allison Elyse Gualtieri | Zenger News It all started in a church choir in Birmingham, Alabama for Rekeshia Bennett There, she honed her...
View ArticleParis Jackson, Emerges with New CD, New Vibe
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent At 22, Paris Jackson bears the scars of a childhood that took a devastating turn 11 years ago with the death of her father, Michael...
View ArticlePeople Magazine Names Michael B. Jordan as Sexiest Man Alive
JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. | AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor Michael B. Jordan has been crowned as 2020’s Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. Jordan, known for his critically-acclaimed...
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Nearly A Half-Century into Legendary Career, Lenny Williams Still Doing ‘Fine’
Percy Crawford | Zenger News Edited by David Matthew | Zenger News Lenny Williams launched his solo career in 1974 with “Pray for the Lion.” In April 2020, a full 46 years later, he’s still making...
View ArticleAmid Racial Reckoning, Grammys Honor The Black Experience
MESFIN FEKADU | AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) – With police brutality continuing to devastate Black families and the coronavirus ravishing Black America disproportionately, the world was driven to the...
View ArticleMichael Jackson’s “Thriller” Continues to Reach New Milestones
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Thirty-eight years ago, Michael Jackson released his groundbreaking “Thriller” album, and the music world has never been the same. Jackson...
View ArticleTHE BLERDBINDER: AfroComicCon 2020
Black Nerds of the World, This Con’s for You! Noah Washington | NNPA Newswire Contributor Voice & Viewpoint Staff | Editor If you’re a Blerd (Black nerd) that’s been living in Oakland, California...
View ArticleUplifting Black Voices with Common Ground Theater
Cori Zaragoza | SDV&V Contributing Writer On December 5th and 6th, 2020, Common Ground Theater virtually premiered its monthly series of readings focused on “Uplifting Black Voices”. The series...
View ArticleTina Turner Reflects on her Life in New Picture Book
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent At 81, Tina Turner quietly reflects on her “imperfections and all” in a telling new pictorial autobiography where she explores her fashion...
View ArticleExclusive: Hip Hop Icon Kurtis Walker Recovering from Heart Transplant Surgery
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Hip-Hop Icon Kurtis Blow underwent heart transplant surgery in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 6, his wife of four...
View Article‘Ma’ Rainey Black Bottom’ Director Talks Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis with...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent George C. Wolfe, a five-time Tony Award winner and one of the most celebrated American playwrights and directors of theater and film,...
View ArticleCharley Pride, A Country Music Black Superstar, Dies at 86
MARK KENNEDY | AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Charley Pride, one of country music’s first Black superstar whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions...
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