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*Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris is said to be all types of turned-on by the fact that her man is playing a 70s pimp in the upcoming Netflix feature “Dolemite Is My Name!” The film is set to tell the story of Rudy Ray Moore, a legendary comedian, musician, singer, actor, and movie producer who popularized the […]

*What makes up Detroit’s uniqueness – its fashion, hair, music, and dance? What’s the personality of Detroit – its cars, boutiques, salons, and big events? We call it…’D STYLE!’ That’s the claim! The City of Detroit has released a special TV series titled ‘D Style: The Style of Detroit’ that is airing on local Detroit […]

*African-American network Bounce TV is moving into the subscription VOD biz with Brown Sugar, a $3.99-per-month service for ’ 70s-era blaxploitation films including “Shaft,” “Foxy Brown,” “Super Fly,” “Cleopatra Jones,” “Blacula” and “The Mack.” At launch, Brown Sugar has 111 movie titles, but several hundred additional films, for which the company has already obtained streaming […]

Cast of One Day at a Time *Netflix has landed the long-rumored Latino remake of Norman Lear’s 70s sitcom “One Day At A Time” with Rita Moreno in the lead role, reports Deadline.com. The streaming service ordered 13 episodes from Sony Pictures TV, which owns rights to Lear’s library. The update revolves around a […]

[…] on Twitter. We don’t know what prompted it, but it seems he has a problem with mothers of today. He posted a meme comparing mothers in the 70s to mothers today. On the left side, fictional mother “Florida Evans” from Good Times is pictured. On the right side an unidentified young woman in a […]

[…] HER BEFORE – VIDEO Margo Thunder True to what Margo promised during our recent phone interview, she took us through a journey of her music through the 70s, 80s and 90s.  What?!  You didn’t realize she has been around since the 70s?  Yep.  She has been around for a minute and had hits in […]

[…] This was the wild card of the entire lineup because not one of the four members onstage was in The Miracles in its classic 60s nor ` 70s lineups. With last year’s passing of original Miracle William “Pete” Moore, the only original members still alive today are Smokey Robinson and his first wife Claudette, […]

[…] James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, HBO’s “The Deuce” chronicles the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 19 70s through the mid-1980s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world at the pioneering moments of what would become the billion-dollar American sex industry. “The Deuce” follows Vincent and Frankie […]

[…] funk. Scott: Diamond, my friend, I’d like to start this conversation reminiscing on our brother Robin Russell, amazing drummer of The New Birth/Nite-Liters bands of the ` 70s who passed away suddenly last year. How do you remember him? Diamond: He was a great guy. When both of us were on the road, we […]

[…] (bottom right) has been fired (Screenshot) *Two white male news broadcasters in Arkansas wore afro wigs during a live telecast to celebrate temperatures dipping into the ’ 70s after a suffocating weekslong heatwave, and were promptly suspended by the station. In a play on the 70s temperatures, Arkansas’ KATV anchor Chris May and meteorologist […]

*According to recently declassified FBI files on Aretha Fraklin, the government spent years surveilling the late singer’s civil rights activism in the 1960s and ’ 70s. The 270-page document shows that the agency monitored Franklin’s involvement with the civil rights movement, communism and the Black Power movement, NPR reports. According to PEOPLE, journalist Jen […]

Switch *TV One’s popular series “Unsung” returns for an 11th season next month with episodes featuring Wyclef, 70s R&B group Switch, gospel star Marvin Sapp, 90s crooners Jagged Edge, R&B singer Shanice, pioneering rapper-actor Ice-T and legendary 60s soul group The Dramatics. The network’s longest running series highlights each act’s rise to stardom while […]

[…] This is a time period that basically birthed this hip-hop moment that we’re in now,” he said. Meanwhile, Grandmaster Flash has just one regret about the mid-’ 70s. “Nobody was really documenting—nobody in our crews had a camera,” the 58-year-old DJ tells Genius. “It’s sad. If I would’ve had just one jam on a […]

[…] United States.  The exhibit traces their career from the early days when they were known as The Primettes to the glamorous height of their fame in the 70s. Their success story helped change racial perceptions during the time of the American Civil Rights movement and to appeal to people of all ethnic backgrounds. A […]

Derrais Carter *TUCSON, Ariz. — The blaxploitation movies of early 19 70s Hollywood occupy a unique space in film history by being, to many, as problematic as they are influential. Derrais Carter, a University of Arizona researcher who studies and writes about Black culture, said films such as “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” “Shaft” and […]