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The Weinstein Company holds the fate of three black films this year – The Butler, Fruitvale and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. A release date for Mandela has already been set for November 29. And while Fruitvale was original set to debut on October 18, The Weinstein Company has…

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Three episodes into the new CBS drama “Golden Boy” and it’s already apparent that the show’s main storyline – a young NYPD officer’s road to becoming the city’s youngest police commissioner – are at times upstaged by the relationship between the cop (Theo James) and his partner, played by Chi McBride.

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Jimi Hendrix recorded everything. More than 40 years after his death, though, the tape is finally running out. “People, Hell & Angels,” out Tuesday, will be the last album of Hendrix’s unreleased studio material, according to Eddie Kramer, the engineer who recorded most of Hendrix’s music during his brief career.

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A “smoking gun” e-mail allegedly connecting a concert promoter to Michael Jackson’s death was revealed this week as a judge unsealed documents in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson’s mother and children, reports CNN.

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Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73. Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers died about 6 AM in Southfield. Rogers had been ill for several years.

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What an interesting turn of events! Fans who’ve been calling for a Jesse L. Martin/Marvin Gaye biopic just might be getting their wish! It’s been a long journey for the various Marvin Gaye projects that we’ve been following since this site was created almost four years ago.

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Dick Gregory visited Universal Bluford Charter School (UBCS) in West Philadelphia last Friday. Universal Bluford Charter School (UBCS), located at 5720 Media Street is a community enriched educational institution serving West Philadelphia students in grades K through 6th.

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Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan and Harry Lennix are all set to star in a new film version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, set to start pre-production in Sept. 2013 on location in Jamaica and Puerto Rico. The film, to be titled Macbett, will also star…

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Ben Affleck got the last laugh after being snubbed by the Academy in the Best Director category when his film, Argo, won the award for Best Picture. However, Ang Lee’s Life of Pi landed the most Oscars overall, four, including an upset of Spielberg for director.

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In a family of vocalists, it was Cleotha Staples’ smooth and velvety voice that helped set apart the sound of the influential and best-selling gospel group The Staple Singers. Staples, the eldest sister and member of the group her father Roebuck “Pops” Staples started in the 1940s, died Thursday at age 78.

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