HuffingtonPost.com By Corbin Addison, Author & Corporate Lawyer Posted March 19th 2012   When I set out to write A Walk Across the Sun–a novel addressing the international sex trade in young women and girls–I expected readers unfamiliar with the topic to respond with shock and outrage. Are there really places in the world, indeed, [...]

Huemanbookstore.com Posted March 8th 2012   Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy by Maggie Anderson. Maggie Anderson is a woman of substance and walks every talk. Anderson’s shocking and enlightening book, Our Black Year, was born from what many black people say with nauseating regularity, but that [...]

TheGrio.com By Chris Witherspoon, The Dish Posted March 5th 2012   For all you die-hard Tupac fans, get ready for the “Thug Life” to make its debut on Broadway. According to Playbill, the life of the late rapper will be set to music in a show called Holler If Ya Hear Me. The musical is [...]

Pittsburgh.about.com Posted March 1st 2012   Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) is one of the most influential writers in American theater. He is best known for his unprecedented cycle of 10 plays, often called the Pittsburgh Cycle because all but one play is set in the Pittsburgh [...]

AlvinAiley.org Posted February 29th 2012   Sharon Gersten Luckman is planning to step down as Executive Director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation  in 2013. Over the past twenty years, Ms. Luckman has strategized and overseen the dramatic growth and success of the entire Ailey organization: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, The Ailey [...]

mxoentertainment.com By Ms. Osupa Nia Posted February 29th 2012   Independent film studio, Greenhouse Studios collaborates with Cinema 2:16 in the development of the documentary, “Fatherhood 101,” to demonstrate the importance a father’s role in a child’s life through in-depth interviews with parents and family relationship experts CLEVELAND–Greenhouse Studios (GHS), in collaboration with Cinema 2:16, [...]

BlackTalentNews.com Posted February 29th 2012   Best Actress Oscar nominee Viola Davis made a bold statement by ditching her wig and going with a natural hairstyle at the 2012 Academy Awards.  Doning an emerald Vera Wang, David told E!’s Ryan Seacrest her mother did her hair and credited her husband, Julius Tennon, for encouraging her natural loook. [...]

mxoentertainment.com By Ms. Osupa Nia Posted February 28th 2012 (PHOTO BY JEFF IVEY)   In celebration of Black History Month BeechStreet PR, Max’nOut Entertainment and CEC Imaging presented ‘Dialog The Art of Conversation on Saturday, February 25th 2012 at NewBridge Center for Arts and Technology in the Mid-Town Corridor. (PHOTO BY JEFF IVEY: L-R  MORRIS [...]

BlackTalentNews.com Posted February 28th 2012   Following the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer” at Sundance, Lee went on a tirade saying the studios “know nothing about black people,” Today Lee’s “Red Hook Summer” co-writer, James McBride, posted an open letter (Being A Maid) to Hollywood on the 40 Acres & A Mule website where [...]

Cleveland Institute of Art Posted February 24th 2012 (PHOTO: AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIST CHARLES SALLEE JR, ‘JESSE NORMAN’)   Help us celebrate 130 years of CIA history and African-American History Month with the first presentation in the Creative Continuum lecture series. In celebration of our 130th anniversary year, CIA presents Creative Continuum, three presentations highlighting CIA [...]