A new Women's Business Center (WBC) on Alcorn State University's campus will be an important new small business resource for women entrepreneurs in Mississippi.
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced grant funding for a new SBA Women’s ...
Posted Friday, September 25th 2020 at 3:34PM
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The 24-year-old star of HBO’s “Euphoria” beat out acclaimed actresses like Jennifer Aniston and Laura Linney, becoming the youngest to win best lead actress in a drama.
“Thank you to all of the other incredible women in this category,” Zenday ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2020 at 2:21AM
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Tyler Perry was honored at the Emmys on Sunday night with one of the Television Academy’s top honors, the Governors Award, which is given to a single person, project or entity for “extraordinary” or “cumulative” accomplishment — effectively a lifetim ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2020 at 1:48AM
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REGINA KING
Regina King paid tribute to Breonna Taylor with a shirt bearing her image, as she accepted her Emmy Award on Sunday.
The actress picked up an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category for her role on ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2020 at 1:31AM
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ABFF SELECTION
Loosely based on the life of Anthony Williams and self-financed.
F.A.M. has won 12 awards and has 45 Festial Acceptance
F.A.M. featured in the PRIDE section of ABFF, has three strong women of color as main characters, and ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2020 at 12:52AM
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Los Angeles — Xenia Leblanc, the actress that brought to life Young Red’s character in Netflix’s hit series Orange Is the New Black, is premiered her new series, Gritty & Pretty, at Dances with Films on Saturday, Sept. 5 with a second screening on ...
Posted Tuesday, September 15th 2020 at 11:09PM
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Join CBRE as they rollout their HBCU Pathways to Commercial Real Estate Rotational Internship Program! This program is designed to help students gain the knowledge and hands on experience in several areas, including but, not limited to:
- Strategic Finance
- Client Solutions
- Project Manageme ...
Posted Tuesday, September 15th 2020 at 8:25PM
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In a press release on Thursday, September 10, 2020, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that $72.34 million of the CARES Act funding for higher education institutions will be awarded.
When the Alabama Governor asked the public to submit suggested ...
Posted Monday, September 14th 2020 at 6:37PM
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The Center for Justice Research (CJR) at Texas Southern University (TSU) has received a pledge of financial support from the National Hockey League (NHL) to work toward creating “a procedurally just criminal justice system.” The Center focuses on res ...
Posted Monday, September 14th 2020 at 12:58PM
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Misa Hylton is an American stylist and fashion designer. Known as a pioneer in the fashion industry. She has styled many hip-hop and R&B artists since the 1990s, most notably Lil' Kim and Mary J. Blige. Hylton's style, referred to as "hip-hop glamoro ...
Posted Sunday, September 13th 2020 at 8:43PM
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The Peters Media Center will now be fully outfitted with television sets designed to facilitate the advanced training of our Communications students, and to produce an array of content through our Oakwood University Broadcast Network.
“The way f ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2020 at 2:40PM
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Focus Features’ Dawn Porter-directed documentary The Way I See It, about former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza, will premiere on MSNBC on October 9 following The Rachel Maddow Show, three weeks after the pic’s September 18 theatri ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2020 at 5:53AM
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Alana Barrett-Adkins talks with multi award winning entertainment journalist and red carpet correspondent Tanisha LaVerne Grant about her latest project "Asunder, One Flesh Divided" which premiered at this year's American Black Film Festival. Alana i ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2020 at 5:48AM
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Hollywood's newest breakout star Tiffany Tenille is one to watch. In an in depth interview with multi award winning entertainment journalist and red carpet Tanisha LaVerne Grant, Tiffany gets candid about her role of a lifetime and portraying a web ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2020 at 3:14AM
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Oladayo A. Okeniyi is a Nigerian-American actor, popularly known for playing the role of Thresh in The Hunger Games and Danny Dyson in Terminator Genisys. Okeniyi is now in leading man territory in "EMPEROR" portraying Shields "EMPEROR" Green a slav ...
Posted Tuesday, September 8th 2020 at 3:08AM
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Jezebel is a 2019 semi-autobiographical drama film written and directed by Numa Perrier and starring actress Tiffany Tenille. The plot follows a 19-year-old girl, also named Tiffany, who begins to do sex work as a cam girl to financially support hers ...
Posted Friday, September 4th 2020 at 1:18AM
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House of Cardin made its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Queer Lion Award. It went on to win the Lifetime Achievement, Best Fashion Feature Film, and Best Director of a Feature Fashion Film Awards at the Ci ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2020 at 6:38PM
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Philo, the entertainment-focused streaming television has announced that the Philo Android app is now Chromecast-enabled. Users can watch Philo on TV by casting from the app to a Chromecast, giving consumers broader access to their offering of 61 top ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2020 at 5:11PM
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by Lauren Harksen | WHNT.com
This year, Oakwood University answered a call to action.
The death of George Floyd started a chain reaction across the country of protests, social media outcry, and conversation, but Oakwood went a step beyond by ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2020 at 3:19PM
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Tressa Azarel Smallwood's original narrative feature, The Available Wife, starring KJ Smith premiered at the first online edition of the prestigious American Black Film Festival which took place from August 21 - 30, 2020 headquartered at https://www ...
Posted Tuesday, September 1st 2020 at 8:43PM
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As part of its "Academy Dialogues: It Starts With Us" series, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a conversation with Oscar®-nominated director Lee Daniels (“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”) and Oscar-wi ...
Posted Tuesday, September 1st 2020 at 12:22AM
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Chadwick Boseman, known for his role as King T'Challa in Marvel's "Black Panther," has died after a four-year battle with cancer, according to a post on his Twitter account. The post said the actor, who also played Black icons such as James Brown, Th ...
Posted Saturday, August 29th 2020 at 3:21PM
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On Monday, August 24, 2020, the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association (“The Council”) announced that Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law (the “Law School”) remains an ...
Posted Thursday, August 27th 2020 at 6:26PM
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Meet Saxton Dunlap. Saxton Dunlap was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in May, 2020. He needs to find a matching donor so he can have a stem cell or bone marrow transplant.
The best chance of finding a match is with someone who shares the same gene ...
Posted Wednesday, August 26th 2020 at 7:46PM
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Childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are common; however, minorities are more likely to experience long lasting and serious negative health outcomes, primarily because they frequently lack the support, health care and resources t ...
Posted Wednesday, August 26th 2020 at 9:04AM
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