Archive for the ‘The Media & African Americans’ Category
Loose lips . . . Speak your peace.
Filed under: Blacks in Hollywood, Current Events, The Media & African Americans | Closed
Tags: Garcelle Beauvais, jamie foxx, new baby, Wendy Williams Show
Sony Pictures is reportedly paying close to $60 million to AEG Entertainment for the 80 hours of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” concert rehearsal footage. Before the icon’s sudden death on June 25, the 50-night concert was set to begin this month in London at the O2 arena. Sony is planning to release a film […]
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Tags: michael jackson, michael jackson film, sony music entertainment, sony pictures, video of michael jackson watching rehearsals
FOX adds diversity exec as VP
FOX is making a seemingly serious effort to embed diversity themes and talent at the earliest stages of program development. Ron Taylor, the TV network’s new VP of diverse programming and content, is the most recent example of this effort. Taylor will oversee script development reflective of diverse themes and/or written by writers from diverse […]
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Tags: diversity in media, diversity in the workplace, FOX TV, ron taylor, TV program development
Detroit’s former FOX affiliate WJBK newsanchor and former WJLB-FM radio host Charles Pugh announced recently he will run for a seat on Detroit’s 9-member city council. He is the troubled city’s first openly gay political candidate. He shared his lifestyle with Detroiters five years ago and saw his popularity soar. Now he’s banking on his local-name […]
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Tags: African American, charles pugh, gay politicians, wjbk-tv, wjlb-fm
Veteran actress Zoe Saldana, 30, plays the lovely Nyota Uhura in the new Star Trek prequel, directed by J.J. Abrams, that opened in theatres over the weekend and soared to #1 with an estimated $76.5 million in box-office receipts. The role of Uhura was made famous by Nichelle Nichols in the 60s TV series by the […]
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Tags: avatar movie, CHRIS ROCK, Columbus Short, Danny Glover, death at a funeral movie, drumline, guess who, IDRIS ELBA, LORETTA DEVINE, MARTIN LAWRENCE, matt dillon, Michael Ealy, nichelle nichols, nyota uhura, star trek, takers movie, the losers movie, william shatner, zoe saldana