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To Bankruptcy and Back – ‘Stop Wasting Time Blaming Others for Your Life’

*For much of my life, I could have been the poster child for financial illiteracy. Signing on dotted lines became one of my favorite pastimes...

My Person of the Week:  Yvette Davis Gayle

*My Person of the Week is PR star and global traveler Yvette Davis Gayle. Her story of family, adoption, entrepreneurship, commitment and dreams continues to...

Larry Buford: Occupy Until I Come (Wheat & Tares)

*Life is like a game of checkers – you move one man here and he gets jumped; your opponent moves a man there and...

The Pulse of Entertainment: KEM launches ‘Promise to Love’ Tour Nov. 6

*“We’ve had some fun on the road starting with Charlie Wilson for 12,000 – 17,000 people. We compliment each other. This tour coming up...

The Film Strip: Master of the Macabre and ‘Crimson Peak’ Says ‘Humans Are the Real Horrors’

Guillermo del Toro (“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” “Pacific Rim,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy”), the master of macabre, is also known for giving females...

Deya Direct: Take a Risk on Yourself!

*I could begin and end with this statement: “If you do not believe in yourself, if you are not willing to take a risk on...

The Film Strip: Going to the Dark Side in ‘Crimson Peak’ Took a Toll on Jessica Chastain

*Jessica Chastain (“The Help,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Shelter,” “The Martian”), one of the most talented and sought after talents in Hollywood, is fired up...

Rinkins Report: New Show Aims to Give Reality TV a Face Lift

*Today’s media landscape may cause some people to wonder whether media is imitating life or if life is imitating media. Sometimes it can seem...

Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): Morris Chestnut Talks About His Latest Role

*For 25-years, Morris Chestnut has been working in television and movies. He made his big screen debut in 1991 as Ricky Baker in the...

The Socialist’s Journal: Obama and the Ultra-Racialization of America

*Folks will blame any and everything on the president, so I initially didn’t pay much attention when some people were berating Obama on Facebook....

The Pulse of Entertainment: Universal Pictures’ Steve Jobs is a Brilliant Look into a Genius’ Mind

*Adapted from the biography “Steve Jobs” by bestselling author Walter Issacson the Universal Picture presentation Steve Jobs is a brilliant look into a genius...

The Film Strip: Joe Wright on Diversity and Rooney Mara on Being Clothed in ‘PAN’

*When The Film Strip asked Rooney Mara (Tiger Lily) about her role in PAN at the Conrad hotel in New York City, she was...

Rinkins Report: FMU’s Black Male College Explorers Program helps decrease achievement gap

*A recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed that black girls are more likely to graduate from college with six years than their...

The Film Strip: Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund in ‘PAN’ playland

*Hugh Jackman, as you have never seen him before, is Blackbeard in PAN, a precursor to all tales Peter Pan. From director Joe Wright,...

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