By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—Saturday morning, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill finally bent to the will of the jury and declared a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby said he channeled Nelson Mandela when prosecutors offered him a deal just before his trial for aggravated...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The jury remains deadlocked in the Bill Cosby trial, as it seems increasingly obvious that the judge in the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Marguerite Jackson’s testimony in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial might have changed the course of history, but the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) For more than 17 years, Nicole Henry has been singing and performing in front of fans, friends, family members...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In Norristown, Pennsylvania—a small, but not quite sleepy town just south of Philadelphia—Bill Cosby stands trial, accused of sexually...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The third day of the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial was a decidedly bad day for the iconic comedian,...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) (Warning: Contains some graphic descriptions) NORRISTOWN—The Bill Cosby trial was turned on its head on Tuesday as the prosecution’s...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) (Warning: Contains some graphic descriptions) NORRISTOWN—On the first day of the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial, Kristen Feden, a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) If anyone’s been asking whatever happened to Ruben Studdard, they probably haven’t been paying too much attention. In the...
By Stacy M. Brown (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) The arguments go back and forth. Detractors of comedian Bill Cosby say he made his bed and should...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Rarely do urban tales balance authenticity with solid drama elements and strong emotion. “Boyz n the Hood” and “Straight...
By Delaney George (Data News Weekly/NNPA Member) Fashion is not just the clothes, the hair, the shoes or the accessories; fashion is every little element combined...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “My music is the spiritual expression of what I am…I want to be the force that is truly for...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “Trainspotting” was a breakthrough film back in 1996. An edgy, eccentric blend of debauchery and rebellion set to one...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Bee Bop. Jazz. The 1950s and 1960s were a hotbed for cool music, and the hip musicians, who played...
By Stacy M. Brown (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) Joni Sledge, the second eldest sister in the hit pop group Sister Sledge, died of a preexisting medical...
By K.P. Williams Pop, Rock, Jazz, and Classical. These are all separate genres of music. But what happens when you put two of them together? You...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During an unexpected made-for-Hollyood moment, “Moonlight,” a film directed by African American Director Barry Jenkins, took the award for...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) He’s back. At least on social media. Perhaps buoyed by several recent – and scarcely reported court victories and...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In her book, “Hidden Figures,” author Margot Lee Shetterly pays homage to the African-American women who worked as human...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Looks like the myth that Black films can’t make big money in Hollywood is about to become a thing...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On February 1, the first day of Black History Month, the National Museum of African American History and Culture...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) The mark of a brilliant actor is that he or she can give a compelling performance even in a...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) As we go forward, movies guide us. They give us directions. They motivate us. They provide rest stops, comic...
