Arts and Entertainment

Mar 14 2013

A hair-raising play

A trio of entertainment and media veterans—from left Audrey and Candace Kelly along with Gilda Rogers—combined forces to create a play that follows Black women’s journey into the world of natural hair, and it will appear on stage March 25 at 7 p.m. Upstairs @ The Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Tickets are $22. The play will open off Broadway May 25 and 26 and feature Kim Coles. For information: www.supernaturalproject.org.
 

Mar 13 2013

Flu and laryngitis

After being hit with a double whammy of the flu and laryngitis, Rihanna’s pulled out of her second concert this week.

The 25-year-old was supposed to perform in Baltimore on March 12, but the show’s since been postponed.

On Sunday, the “Diamonds” singer also had to hold off on her Boston show.

Mar 8 2013

Breach of contract, fraud, copyright infringement

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A producer who claims to have collaborated with Frank Ocean on his Grammy Award-winning debut album sued the singer, his creative partner and record label today in Los Angeles, alleging they cheated him out of performance and production credits.

Mar 8 2013

Authors: Drew Sharp, foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

No problem.

That’s been your motto since forever because you’ve always loved a good challenge. Somebody put up a barrier, you’ll figure a way around it. If there are roadblocks, you find another path. You can make things happen, you’ve got friends where you need them, and heaven help the person who tells you “no.”

Mar 8 2013

Otherwise, there is much buzz about her hair

In next weekend’s thriller “The Call,” Halle Berry plays a 911 operator who fights to rescue a young woman from a vicious abductor.

As it turns out, the Oscar winner revealed to CNN that she had to make an emergency call herself during a terrifying home invasion.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.