‘Spinning Gold’ Highlights 70s Label Responsible for Donna Summer, Parliament & Kiss | WATCH
*“Spinning Gold” is a new film that takes viewers back to the 70s to give the backstory on the early beginnings of one of the music industry’s most prolific independent labels. “Spinning Gold” has an all-star cast including Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Bonnie & Clyde), Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible franchise, Gone Baby Gone), […]
Ryan Coogler Working on ‘Diverse’ Reboot of ‘The X-Files’
*Ryan Coogler is working on a reboot of “The X-Files,” according to the show’s creator, Chris Carter. The “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” director is said to be developing a “diverse” reimagining of the popular sci-fi series. During a recent interview on the CBC radio show On the Coast With Gloria Macarenko, Carter spoke about the […]
Disney Film About ‘Ruby Bridges’ Banned at Florida School
*A Florida school banned the 1998 Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” after one parent complained students should not see scenes of white people’s hatred toward a 6-year-old Black girl. As EUR previously reported, Bridges experienced racism at its most vile for months after integrating the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Today, Bridges, 68, is a civil […]
An HBCU Alumna (Tamia Potter) Became Vanderbilt’s First Black Woman Neurosurgery Resident
*(CNN) — After close to a century, Vanderbilt University‘s neurosurgery residency program will have its first Black woman resident. Tamia Potter is the first Black woman to accept a spot in the neurosurgery position at the university’s medical center in Nashville, Tennessee. The 26-year-old received the news on March 17 — better known to medical […]
The Pulse of Entertainment: Opera Singer Angela Brown Acts as Visiting Chair at University of Georgia | VIDEO
*“The honor came through the University of Georgia (UGA). I had to be nominated,” Soprano opera singer Angela Brown said about the Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding experience courtesy of the Delta Air Lines Foundation. “I didn’t know about it. I was told a doctorate student was inspired by me…wanted to get me to […]
