Queen Latifah Returns to Host 55th NAACP Image Awards
Queen Latifah will host the 55th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, March 16, at 8 p.m., on BET and CBS.
Queen Latifah will host the 55th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, March 16, at 8 p.m., on BET and CBS.
When Beyonce won her 32nd Grammy this February, she made history as the most Grammy Winning Artist of all time. In May, she began her Renaissance World Tour which included 10 countries, 39 cities, 56 shows.
Actress, singer and producer Queen Latifah was named on Tuesday, Feb. 21, as the host of the 54th NAACP Image Awards.
To display their commitment to combating social injustices, the NFL aired a one-hour TV special called “Inspire Change.” Music and movie icon, Queen Latifah, was the host; the special consisted of interviews and speeches by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
“The message that I want people to take away from the film is that family, faith and the community are very important. Mattie Moss Clark really fought to hold her family together and I think as mothers, children and fathers, we should always fight to hold our family together,” said Carter.
There was a huge choir that veered from stirring, soaring gospel, then spit verses from Cardi B and sang lines from Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.”; a spoken word artist who reminded the audience that rock ‘n’ roll was invited by a Black, queer woman; and a stunning collection of clothes that ran the gamut from casual chic to red-carpet gowns, all modeled by Black or Brown faces.
“Because it’s not to say that women can’t direct car commercials, or direct stop signs, or explosions, or all that, unfortunately, we didn’t get a seat at the table when it came to those things,” B. Monet said. “And we’re always in, like, the melodrama. And like, the super sappy things and stories. For me, I want to be able to do what the boys do. I want to do the car shows.”
Janet Jackson will receive the rock star award at the 2018 Black Girls Rock awards. The Grammy winner will be honored as a “phenomenal woman in music,” organizers said Thursday. Jackson recently released “Made For Now,” her single with Daddy Yankee. Queen Latifah will host the show, which will be taped Sunday at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. BET Networks will air the special celebrating the accomplishments of black women on Sept. 9. Other award recipients include Mary J. Blige, Naomi Campbell and Judith Jamison. Blige will receive the star power award. Campbell will be presented
Bontemps is a gifted music composer and the owner of Composer Tech, and it’s his musical composition in the new documentary “United Skates” (by directors Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown) that is causing the strong pre-festival buzz, and that’s always good news for new filmmakers and film festival honchos.
The drama will reimagine some of the Bible’s most popular stories present day
Recently, legendary singer, songwriter, musician and music producer Stevie Wonder held the 20th Anniversary of his House Full of Toys Benefit Concert at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.
“The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story,” will premiere Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern. The movie focuses on how Wanda struggled to make ends meet for her children and persevered with the help of family and carefully chosen friends
After eight weeks of a hip hop boot camp with music mogul Jermaine Dupri, Atlanta native Miss Mulatto emerged as the victor in Lifetime’s The Rap Game (#TheRapGame).
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards showed the governors of the Academy Awards how nominations and wins are really suppose to go—with diversity. The wins of Queen Latifah, Viola Davis, Uzo Aduba and the entire cast of “Orange Is the New Black”, plus a two time win for Idris Elba showed that the SAG—union for actors—celebrated the diversity in last year’s entertainment.