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54 min ago | Black Enterprise

'Gatsby' Director Champions Film's Black-Led Score

Have you seen The Great Gatsby yet? If so, you've noticed just how big a role hip-hop mogul Jay Z played in producing the movie's score and soundtrack, which included several prominent African American artists, despite the utter lack of speaking parts for black actors in the film.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Great Gatsby, Movies, Entertainment

5 hrs ago | The Columbus Dispatch

New York's Outer Critics Circle Awards: Big win for Broadway musical...

A leading narrative about this Broadway season just got challenged in a rather Kinky way.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts

9 hrs ago | USA Today

Michael B. Jordan: World is ready for black Human Torch

Michael B. Jordan, seen here in "Fruitvale Station," has been talked about as a possible Human Torch in Josh Trank's reboot of "Fantastic Four." The internet has been abuzz about Michael B. Jordan's possible casting as Johnny Storm, aka the fiery Human Torch, in director Josh Trank's reboot of The Fantastic Four, due out in 2015.

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Related Topix: Chronicle, Michael B. Jordan, Fantastic Four, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Movies, Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Chris Evans

Fri May 17, 2013

The Miami Herald

Michelle Obama speaks of 'hunger' for education

First lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school's history and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, Bowie State University

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Bobby McFerrin: Spirituals As Sung Prayers

Listen to Bobby McFerrin - onstage, warming up with his band - and it's like you're listening to an entire orchestra bubbling up through one man's body.

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The Miami Herald

Shrewd Ga. businesswoman fought stereotypes

As a shrewd businesswoman with keen insight and endless aspirations, Ophelia DeVore worked for much of the 20th century to smash stereotypes and empower black women by teaching them poise, confidence and the courage to get ahead in a world deeply etched by racial discrimination.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, Emory University

New York Daily News

Michelle Obama addresses graduates of Bowie State University

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school's history and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations.

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Related Topix: Bowie State University

National Public Radio

How Best To Encourage Black 'Teenpreneurs'

African-American entrepreneurs from all over the country have gathered in Ohio this week.

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MLive.com

Louis Farrakhan blasts emergency management, calls on blacks to buy up Detroit property

Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, which was founded in Detroit in the 1930s, speaks to Detroit City Council on Friday, May 17, 2013.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI

PRLog US Entertainment

Black Angels Over Tuskegee At Wilshire Ebell Theatre

May 15, 2013 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- What: Black Angels Over Tuskegee , an enlightening historic and educational production that chronicles the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen, the black World War II fighter pilots who successfully broke the racial barrier during the Jim Crow era as the first African-American pilots in U.S. military history.

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Related Topix: Theater, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Los Angeles, CA

Advocate

Two Stories of Rising Above the Down Low

Tarrodd is a vivacious, pansexual 23-year-old entrepreneur living in Akron, Ohio.

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Related Topix: Akron, OH, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Entertainment, Television, Life, Drama

Thu May 16, 2013

LA Weekly

Latino Vote Crucial for L.A. City Hall Candidates

With nearly one in three people in the L.A. electorate claiming Latino heritage, the city election Tuesday could be decided by the brown vote.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA

Amy Ridenour

NAACP Leader's Double-Standard on Alleged IRS Abuse

If there is anyone in the world who should have some sympathy for what the Tea Party movement and like-minded conservative organizations are going through right now with the IRS, it should be NAACP chairman emeritus Julian Bond.

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Related Topix: US News, Tea Party, George Bush, W., 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics

EurekAlert!

Body mass index of low income African-Americans linked to proximity of fast food restaurants

African-American adults living closer to a fast food restaurant had a higher body mass index than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and this association was particularly strong among those with a lower income.

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Related Topix: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Methodist, Religion

NBC Chicago

Few Barriers Left For Black Politicians in Illinois

It's a well-known fact that Illinois has elected more African-Americans to statewide office than any of our 49 peers.

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Related Topix: Illinois, Illinois Government, US News, Pat Quinn, US Governors

Denver Post

At Cannes, challenging the notion that black films 'don't travel' overseas

In 1995, Will Smith begged producer Jerry Bruckheimer to let him go to the Cannes Film Festival to promote "Bad Boys," despite the parent studio's insistence that a black actor would not get any traction with the international fans and journalists thronging the city's beach-side promenade, the Croisette.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Will Smith, Movies, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Entertainment, Marvin Gaye, Soul, World News, Belgium

New Pittsburgh Courier Online

Black empowerment - At last' - or last?

When Beyonce Knowles sang the Etta James song "At Last" at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Blues, US News, Barack Obama, Etta James, Michelle Obama, Morehouse College, Opinion

Alabama Live

Rep. Mo Brooks: Immigration amnesty program would undermine job market for African-Americans

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks said the immigration amnesty program supported by President Obama and being considered in the Senate will endanger the job market for African-Americans. U.S. Rep.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigration, US News

Wed May 15, 2013

LA Observed

Sonenshein: How voters view the LA city election

Raphael Sonenshein, the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State Los Angeles, writes at the Jewish Journal about what he sees interesting in the poll the institute recently conducted of likely LA voters.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA

New Pittsburgh Courier Online

Black community not to blame for August Wilson Center crisis

But don't let anyone try to tell you that the local Black community is to blame for AWC's plight.

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Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Opinion

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