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Bill Cosby, Spike Lee & More Attend The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation Gala
Vibe
The gala raised over $700000 to support The Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend for Young Men and the Girls Who Rule the World Mentoring Weekend. The evening was filled with a comedic performance from Bill Cosby and the dynamic Rachelle Ferrell.

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Apollo Jets: Jock Air
BusinessWeek
26 at the Amway Center in Orlando, the players mingle beside the court with director Spike Lee and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. Rapper-turned-actor Common visits Cee Lo Green. Their younger peers, Lil Wayne and his protégé, Drake, ...


 
Nato goers to miss Chicago
Oman Daily Observer
They spent their first date strolling through the city's elegant streets, parks and lakefront esplanades, visiting a gallery, sitting on the curb to eat ice cream, enjoying an evening on the 99th floor of a skyscraper and seeing the Spike Lee drama Do ...


 
Brooklyn Rail
The New Millennium Minstrel Show
Brooklyn Rail
by Tanya Jayani Fernando In Spike Lee's film Bamboozled (2000), we get a powerful close-up of a visibly distressed black performer applying blackface. The tears are unscripted. Lee said that the actors dreaded blacking up: they felt it was dehumanizing ...


 
New York Daily News
Sarah Jessica Parker to hold fundraiser for President Barack Obama at her ...
New York Daily News
Parker promised that the evening, entitled “A New York Night,” would be “fabulous.” "I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York," Parker wrote in an email to the incumbent's supporters. "It should be fabulous.

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Black College Night at OPRF
Wednesday Journal (blog)
By Terry Dean Do you know what Alice Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Walter Payton, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Erykah Badu, Yolanda Adams, Spike Lee, and Ralph Ellison have in common? In addition to being outstanding examples of excellence in ...

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Boston.com
Chuck Brown, pioneer of 'go-go' funk music, dies
Boston.com
Spike Lee, a fan of Brown's, used go-go for his movie "School Daze." "Chuck Brown Will Always Be `Bustin' Loose' -- the Godfather of Go-Go," Lee said through a spokeswoman. Elliot said Brown had been a father figure since he was a teen when he aspired ...
Go-go funk pioneer Chuck Brown diesCBC.ca
'Wind Me Up, Chuck': Washington Dances Outside Howard Theatre to Send Off the ...DCist.com

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