The 9th annual Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF), Canada’s largest celebration of Black History Month, will feature films from around the globe, including Canada, USA,…
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Academy Honors Tyler Perry
The Academy will present its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards to filmmaker Tyler Perry and to the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF). Perry is slated…
Bolanle Adeboyejo of Texas marks 60th birthday
In unique style and fashion, Mrs. Bolanle Adeboyejo of Cedar Hill Texas opted for a ‘trendy’ photoshoot to mark her 60th birthday. Her husband, sir…
“I have developed a piece that I hope will challenge systems of oppression,” says director Nate Parker
A provoking and powerful film, Nate Parker’s latest project “American Skin,” follows a Black Iraqi War Vet, who seeks justice for his only son after…
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube proscribe Trumps posts
Twitter has suspended Donald Trump’s account for 12 hours and for the first time deleted his tweets after he praised the mob who stormed Congress…
Worst years in US history
1. 1862 – The year of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War The year 1862 marked a major escalation in the American Civil…
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha sizzle on screen in ‘Sylvie’s Love’
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. What is about rom-coms that makes us all dewy-eyed and drawn to them? Just ask writer/director…
Nigeria now world’s second largest bitcoin market
In the last five years, Nigeria has traded 60,215 bitcoins, valued at more than $566 million which, apart from the US, is the largest volume…
Akon to build smart city in Senegal
Akon, famed Senegalese American singer plans to build a new $6 billion smart city in Senegal and has confirmed that construction on “Akon City” will…