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In this image released on Oct 10, 2023, (L-R) Left to right: Swizz Beatz, DJ Spinderella, Marley Marl, Fat Joe, DJ Drama, Timbaland, Kool DJ Red Alert and DJ Holiday onstage during the BET Hip-Hop Awards 2023 on Oct. 03, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo credit: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for BET

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Fat Joe, Verzuz news, digital cypher all part of BET Hip Hop Awards

October 12, 2023
By Carla Hay
NABJ Black News & Views

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Runner-up contestant Dayanira, 4, waits to go on stage to display her hairdo during an Afro hair contest in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, June 13, 2015. Behind closed doors and even in public, white Cubans talk disparagingly about black Cubans in ways that have become socially unacceptable in many other countries, describing them as criminals and forbidding their children from dating Afro-Cuban schoolmates. Photo credit: Desmond Boylan, The Associated Press

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How the surveillance of Black hair can kill a child’s spirit

October 10, 2023
By Nia T. Evans & Ariana Coghill
Mother Jones

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Beyonce appears in the audience before accepting the award for best rap song for "Savage" at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday, March 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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If you missed Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour, there’s still a chance to see it on the big screen

October 4, 2023
By Carla Hay
NABJ Black News & Views

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Erika Alexander stars as Coraline and Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in writer/director Cord Jefferson’s "American Fiction," an Orion Pictures release. Photo credit: Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Realities of Black life a central theme in fall movies and TV

September 28, 2023
By Carla Hay
NABJ Black News & Views

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Usher performs at the 51st annual Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on Thursday, June 16, 2022, in New York. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Usher will headline the 2024 Super Bowl on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium. The music megastar, who has won eight Grammys, said he's looking forward to performing on the NFL's biggest stage. Photo credit: Charles Sykes, Invision/The Associated Press

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Usher confirmed as Super Bowl 2024 halftime show headliner: ‘Honor of a lifetime’

September 25, 2023
By Naledi Ushe & Safid Deen
USA Today

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This image released by Netflix shows Jeffrey Mackenzie Jordan, left, and Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in a scene from "Rustin." Photo credit: Parrish Lewis/Netflix via The Associated Press

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Bayard Rustin, March on Washington backstory celebrated at Toronto International Film Festival

September 22, 2023
By Kathia Woods
NABJ Black News & Views

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