Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers star as Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama in the upcoming new romantic biopic of the Obamas’ courtship, Southside With You. By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act Miramax paid a reported roughly $2 million for North American rights to director Richard Tanne’s well-received Sundance romantic-drama, Southside With You,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Eddie Murphy (Photo: Everett Collection / shutterstock) ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Eddie Murphy is now a father of nine. Murphy’s publicist says the 55-year-old actor and his 36-year-old girlfriend Paige Butcher have welcomed their first child together, Izzy Oona Murphy. The baby girl was born Tuesday morning. Publicist Arnold Robinson says both…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Scenes from the Native Portals dance performance at Intercultural Journeys in University City. By Norma Porter The late, great Nina Simone once said that an artist’s duty is to reflect the times, and Lela Aisha Jones and her company Flyground reflected the brutal history of African Americans and the residual manifestation of years…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Joy-Ann Reid By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act MSNBC has announced that Joy-Ann Reid will host a new program on the network that will occupy the timeslot vacated by Melissa Harris-Perry’s show after a very public break up with the cable TV news channel. Reid’s new show will air from 10 am-Noon…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Prince (AP Photo/F. Carter Smith) ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — Prince’s representatives arranged for the musician to meet a California doctor to help him kick an addiction to painkillers shortly before his death, according to a newspaper report published Wednesday. Prince’s representatives called Dr. Howard Kornfeld on April 20, the day before the musician died,…

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ABOVE: Prince  (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing;  AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill;  AP Photos) SUN editor Monica Peters and Prince’s close friend Paula Williams Madison pay tribute to the star who helped the Jena 6 defendants and Black kids in Silicon Valley By Monica Peters Prince through the decades, my recollections as a fan My colleague let…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Tyler James Williams Interview with Kam Williams Born in Westchester County, New York on October 9, 1992, Tyler James Williams can be seen this spring co-starring as computer whiz Monty in CBS’ Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, a new spinoff series. Early last year, he guest-starred as Noah in AMC’s The Walking Dead. In…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Scene from “Lemonade.” By Nekesa Mumbi Moody associated press Beyonce doesn’t simply release albums anymore, she unleashes events. And so it was this weekend, amid deep mourning for a lost icon, music’s queen dropped “Lemonade,” an arresting display of what technically qualifies as videos and singles, but is better described as a work…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan (Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com) By David Bauder associated press NEW YORK — Kelly Ripa returned to her daytime talk show Tuesday after time off to “gather (her) thoughts” in response to learning her co-host Michael Strahan is leaving, saying the incident had started a conversation about workplace respect. She…

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New Freedom Theatre presents the world premiere of ‘The Ballad of Trayvon Martin’. ‘The Ballad of Trayvon Martin’  is written by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj and Thomas J. Soto. Mr. Maharaj also directs and choreographs. The show is onstage at 1346 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, from May 11 through May 22, 2016. For tickets and information…

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