Rapper Nicki Minaj is seen leaving the Marc Jacobs Fall 2020 runway show during New York Fashion Week on February 12, 2020, in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images) *Nicki Minaj has announced she is launching her own record label and revealed on the latest episode of Queen Radio that her current roster
Anne Wilson announced she will be playing CMA Fest on Sunday, June 11th. The post Anne Wilson Playing CMA Fest appeared first on The Gospel Music Association.
Christina and Scott MacIntyre have hit a major milestone with their first television special, Enduring Hope, with a million viewers. The program, which shares the couples journey through Scott’s blindness and two kidney transplants, debuted in October 2020 on UpTV, NRB and WSMV-TV in Nashville. The post Christina and Scott MacIntyre Reach One Million Mark
BMI will honor Gospel superstars Tamela and David Mann and Dr. Bobby Jones at its 22nd Annual Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards to be held at Flourish Atlanta on March 30th. The post Tamela and David Mann and Dr. Bobby Jones Honored at the 2023 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards appeared first on The
By The Associated Press Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89. Shorter died March 2 surrounded by his family in Los Angeles, said Alisse Kingsley, a representative for the multi-Grammy winner. No
By Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock is poised to finally have his say. The 58-year-old comedian on March 4 will perform his first stand-up special since last year’s Oscars. He’s doing it in “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” streaming live on Netflix
By Aamer Madhani and Kim Chandler, The Associated Press President Joe Biden arrived in Alabama March 5 to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago. The
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com On Feb. 28, Del. Marlon Amprey (D-Md-40) introduced HB0940, Criminal Procedure – Evidence – Admissibility of Creative Expression. “HB0940 is a bill to ensure that artistic expression cannot incriminate someone unless the court of law can prove that the lyrics and visual expressions are directly tied to an
By Del. Joe Vogel Since his election, congressional reporters have been chasing George Santos around Capitol Hill. National reporters have been eager to expose the blatant and bizarre lies about his life story, career, education, animal charity, and campaign funds. The story has been dominating national headlines, but it was a local journalist, Maureen Daly
By Fred Redmond This month marks 55 years since the Memphis sanitation strike began following the deaths of two sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, who were crushed by a faulty garbage truck. Organizers and activists rallied the community so that Black sanitation workers who had long experienced low wages and an unsafe work