By: Lee Edwards - August 27, 2014 4:12 p.m.
“I gathered together a group of people from the community and invited them to join me in discussions about what kind of festival that showcased films that deal with issues and the life of the black diaspora and of African Americans and what a festival like that would be like,” said Barbara Scharres, Director of Programming and founder of The Black Harvest Film Festival. “Each year it’s grown and we feel like we’re always learning something and doing new things to develop it further and develop an audience because the whole point is to bring the audience and the films together.”
Singer Ray J has pleaded not guilty to groping a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel bar and resisting arrest afterward.
Signature Group LLC of Miami, Florida has filed a lawsuit for more than a million dollars against popular rapper, entrepreneur and budding sports management agent, Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., better known as Lil Wayne. The complaint states that Young Money Entertainment, LLC and Dwayne Carter, president of Young Money Entertainment, owe more than $1 million in missed payments, fees and charges for leasing a Gulfstream private jet operated by Signature Group.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) - Authorities on Tuesday detailed how Robin Williams' took his life, saying the actor and comedian hanged himself with a belt in a bedroom of his San Francisco Bay Area home.
Nearly two weeks after his dismissal as evening personality at WVAZ FM 102.7, Ramonski Luv is thanking fans, friends and former co-workers for their support.
ATLANTA (AP) — The husband of a "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges.
In recognition of Black Music Month, TV One will roll out a special programming slate of new specials, original factual series, original reality series, movies and performance specials this June. The programming will be anchored by the premiere of the biographical special Aretha: Frankly Speaking and HelloBeautiful Interludes Live: Trey Songz on Saturday, June 21. Additionally, other new episodes of HelloBeautiful Interludes Live will air throughout the month.
An assorted lineup of 66 restaurants that will participate throughout the highly anticipated, five-day food and entertainment festival Taste of Chicago, July 9-13 in Grant Park. Showcasing Chicago’s diverse culinary scene, Taste goers are guaranteed an endless variety of dining options to suit every palate from five-day restaurants to the popular one- and two-day Pop-Ups, as well as food trucks.
Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 100.
By: Lee Edwards - May 29, 2014 10:50 a.m.
The 30th Annual Matteson Family Days festival, an event staple for the Village of Matteson, is taking place on Friday, June 27 through Saturday, June 28, at the Matteson Village Hall, 4900 Village Commons. This year’s festival is headlined by multi-platinum selling R&B group, En Vogue, on Friday night and Grammy award winning artist, Peabo Bryson, on Saturday night.
By: Deborah Bayliss - May 21, 2014 4:21 p.m.
Acclaimed author, poet, film-maker, screenwriter, activist and playwright, Sam Greenlee, perhaps best known for his 1969 novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, died May 19 in Chicago at age 83.
Early one Sunday this month, 56 people boarded a bus in a suburb of Washington, D.C., to make the trip to Broadway to see a play.
The all-day trip was part of a fundraiser organized by members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest African-American female sorority of college-educated women. People on the bus ranged from a child under 6 to grandmothers. There were veteran Broadway goers and theater newbies.
For Anthony Mackie, landing the role of the Falcon in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” meant more than inking his dream deal with Marvel.
Eminem and Outkast will headline a diverse lineup of more than 130 acts at this year's three-day Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Jane's Addiction lead singer and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell announced last Wednesday.
By: Deborah Bayliss - April 11, 2014 11:12 a.m.
Remember the 1975 film classic, Cooley High, the Black cinema classic, filmed in and around Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing projects, based on the lives of African American kids coming of age in the 1960s and written by Eric Monte, co-creator of Good Times?
