Gospel Music According To Fred Hammond

Gospel Night enlightened the hearts of many attendees at Wingate Field in Brooklyn recently as Fred Hammond and The Radical for Christ, Israel and the New Breed, and special guest Keith “Wonderboy� Johnson performed their uplifting songs.

Funk Legend Rick James Dies at Age 56

Funk legend Rick James, best known for the 1981 hit "Super Freak", died last Friday. James died in his sleep at his residence near Universal City, said publicist Sujata Murthy. James lived alone and was found dead by his personal assistant, who notified police, she said.

Black Star News Interview with Kam Williams

Denzel Washington has exhibited an impressive range over the years, playing public figures as diverse as Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, unfairly imprisoned boxer Hurricane Carter, South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, and trailblazing high school football coach Herman Boone.

Denzel & Streep Star in Remake of Cold War Classic

In 1959, when Richard Condon wrote The Manchurian Candidate, the world was at the height of the Cold War. His chilling best seller, set during the Korean War, involved a Communist Chinese plot to brainwash American prisoners-of-war to assassinate a U.S. Presidential nominee.

Shyamalan Channels the Soul of Rod Serling in "The Village"

The Village is set in 1897 in mythical Covington, Pennsylvania, a vague combination Quaker/Shaker/Amish/Pilgrim-style sect whose idyllic, utopian oasis unfortunately sits surrounded by a dense forest ostensibly filled with unspeakable, dreaded creatures. Yet these self-contained townspeople have somehow made peace with their predicament by never venturing into the woods beyond their clearing’s tree-lined boundary, and by performing an assortment of primitive, superstitious rituals to keep their anthropomorphic adversaries at bay.

Catwoman, the movie

"It all started on the day that I died," is the ominous first line in this laughable film which itself arrives dead on arrival. Catwoman’s initial failing is that it is narrated by a bored Halle Berry who doesn’t even sound like she believes a word of what she’s saying during that opening montage. "