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(CNN) — Singer, dancer and actress Lena Horne died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday night, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Horne was 92.
She was one of the first African-Americans to sign a long-term movie contract with a major Hollywood studio when she joined MGM in 1942.
Horne’s expressive voice made her a singing star after Hollywood failed [...]

Jada Pinkett Smith and Bishop T.D. Jakes are the latest additions to the ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL’s three full days of free empowerment seminars that feature some of the biggest names in entertainment and the nation’s most influential speakers, artists, authors and leaders.
Jada Pinkett Smith and ESSENCE Magazine editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray will host [...]

TBS debuted the trailer to Ice Cube’s ‘Are We There Yet’ TV series, which is set to premiere on TBS on June 2.
The series, based on the 2005 family comedy starring Ice Cube and Nia Long, will feature Terry Crews and Essence Atkins in a show about a man’s efforts [...]

President Barack Obama and Jay Leno exchanged jokes at the 2010 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C.   Watch President Obama’s remarks at the dinner courtesy of the White House.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Association of Black Journalists named CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Journalist of the Year at its spring Board of Directors meeting.
O’Brien will join other top honorees at the association’s Salute to Excellence Gala, on July 31 in San Diego, during NABJ’s 35th Annual Convention and Career Fair, the largest gathering of minority [...]

Creating Solutions that are Fearless and Individual
Kim Myles, the host/designer of HGTV’s Myles of Style, has been fascinated by design since she was a kid so she has spent years developing her visual aesthetic. “My win on HGTV’s Design Star in 2007 taught me to believe in my own vision—which along with a combination of [...]

When it opened in December 1999, BIN 36 uncorked a dynamic new era in contemporary wining and dining with its multi-faceted, wine-driven concept. Situated in the heart of booming River North, this 12,000-square-foot complex sizzles with social, dining and retail activity from the crack of dawn to the wee hours, 365 days a year. Above [...]

Brooklyn, New York native Michel Martin is the host of NPR’s nationally distributed broadcast program Tell Me More. The one-hour daily news and talk show made its national premiere on April 30, 2007 on public radio stations around the country. Martin, who joined NPR in January 2006 to develop the program, has spent [...]

Jill Scott Preps Two New Films, Marvel Cartoon Series, Intimate Apparel Bra, Album Release and 2010 Lilith Fair Tour
Grammy Award winning singer/actress Jill Scott preps two movies, a cartoon series, a new bra for her Ashley Stewart intimate apparel line, new album The Light Of The Sun as well as main stage inclusion in the [...]

One artist, two distinct but interwoven concepts: this is the captivating logic behind Double-Booked, pianist Robert Glasper’s third album for Blue Note, following up Canvas (2005) and In My Element (2007). An artist who “unfailingly gets the feeling right” (New York Magazine), Glasper has made waves throughout the music world as leader of both the [...]