10/31/17- The Party with a Purpose just got bigger. Anita Baker will be joining the 2018 Fantastic Voyage Cruise! If you weren’t on the cruise now, you definitely want to be on the cruise for the amazing Anita Baker! Baker will be giving her first concert in years on the 19th Annual Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage […]
Folks will have to wait a little longer for Tracy Morgan’s anticipated TBS comedy series “The Last O.G.” Variety reports that executive producer and showrunner John Carcieri has dropped out of the project, which was originally scheduled to premiere next week. It’s now set to debut some time in 2018. As previously reported, the series […]
The Social Security Administration announced the cost-of-living increase Friday. The COLA affects benefits for more than 70 million U.S. residents, including Social Security recipients, disabled veterans, and federal retirees. That’s about one in five Americans. By law, the COLA is based on a broad measure of consumer prices generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. […]
About a week ago Jay-Z was approached to perform at the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime show but reportedly declined. Many believed he turned down the offer because the NFL continues to blackball Colin Kaepernick. At his recent show in New York, the rapper made a shout out to Kaepernick on stage during his set. It’s now being […]
Filmmaker Julie Dash is preparing to direct a biopic on civil rights icon Rosa Parks, which will focus on the decade before the seminal moment she refused to give up her seat for a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. According to Deadline, the story will center on Parks as an activist seeking justice […]
Word on the curb is that Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake are being heavily courted by the NFL for next year’s Super Bowl halftime extravaganza. Last night, Hov was confirmed as a musical guest for the Season 43 premiere of “Saturday Night Live” on Sept. 30, with actor Ryan Gosling to host. This morning, the blog […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Morgan Freeman will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award at next year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony. The actors union announced Tuesday that Freeman will accept its highest honor on Jan. 21, 2018. The 80-year-old Freeman has already received lifetime achievement prizes from the American Film Institute and the Hollywood Foreign […]
