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Award-winning director Spike Lee is excited about his new film, “Da 5 Bloods.” The film stars Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, and Isiah Whitlock Jr. as four Black veterans from the Vietnam War who return to the nation to search for buried gold and the remains of their fallen squad leader, Chadwick Boseman. The…

Baltimore native Felicia Pride is a film and TV writer and an emerging director. She was a writer on Ava DuVernay’s drama series “Queen Sugar” and recently made her directorial debut with tender, a short film that explores the bonds between Black women. It premiered in March at the 2020 Outfest Fusion film festival in…

Marc Lacy is a speaker, writer and producer for AVO Publishing LLC. A native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a proud graduate of Alabama A&M University, he has performed across the country at many national literary events and spoken word venues. Rolling out spoke with the award-winning poet for our “Creative Class” series about his career…

Dui Jarrod is a screenwriter, storyteller and director from White Hall, Arkansas. He began his career in film with his first project at 11 years old. The effort fortified his belief that cinema can be used delicately and progressively. Driven by his desire to move the narrative forward for marginalized communities, Jarrod moved to Los…

Jamie Foxx is set to take a seat in the director’s chair once again. The 52-year-old actor co-wrote the script for the movie about pastor siblings with Donald Ray “Speedy” Caldwell. The plot follows two brothers who take on jobs at two completely different churches, with one thriving and the other left struggling to cope…

J. Ivy is an artist, poet, actor, and author. From being the poet featured on Kanye West’s Grammy Award-winning album, The College Dropout, to penning three books about the power of forgiveness, Ivy is always pushing the needle for our culture. We spoke with Ivy about his new role with the Recording Academy and how…

Marsalis Higgs is a writer who spent his childhood composing picture epics and giving lectures. As a teenager, he published his first novel, March of the Libertines. After graduating cum laude from the University of Michigan, he published works in every literary style and genre. Higgs is the founder of the pop music blog Paraphernalia…

Terrie Davoll Hudson is an author, award-winning business leader, and motivational speaker. Hudson has more than 30 years of leadership in sales and operational excellence and has spent a good portion of her life leading, coaching and mentoring others. Rolling out spoke with the author about her latest book, Leave a Legacy That Counts. What…

Deidre McDonald has more than 30 years of experience as an award-winning producer, writer and educator. As the founding artistic director for the BronzeLens Film Festival, which showcases Atlanta as the new mecca for film production, she is dedicated to empowering the next generation of filmmakers. BronzeLens has been recognized nationally and internationally for its…

Lil Yatchy is shocking music fans with his latest collaboration. The Atlanta native recently revealed that he played a major role in the popular City Girls‘ hit “Act Up.” In a new YouTube interview with Influencer Kerwin Frost, Lil Yachty said that he wrote the entirety of the song. “He may have said like one thing…

KC Mills was headed down a corporate career track and appeared to have accomplished the American dream as a working wife and mother until she discovered her passion for words. After finding the world of urban literature, Mills left her corporate job and decided to impact the world as a writer by providing women with a…

The death of Kevin Barnett, 32, a rising star in the comedy world, sent shockwaves through Hollywood this week. Barnett was on vacation in Tijuana, Mexico, when he died unexpectedly. Mexican authorities have now released a cause of death. According to Mexican authorities, Barnett was rushed to a local hospital in Tijuana where he died…

Kevin Barnett, 32, a rising star in the comedy world, has died, according to his publicist and studio. Barnett was one of the writers and the co-creator behind the hit TV series “Rel,” starring comedian Rel Howery, and was well-known in major writing circles. According to his agent, Barnett was on vacation in Mexico when he died.…

Grace is a cross-generational book written by 35 courageous women between the ages of 29 and 95, who each pen a letter filled with wisdom and advice they wish they had when they were younger. Led by author Tiffany Fincher, winner of the Young Women Professional League’s 40 Under 40 Award from Demoiselle 2 Femme in…

Ibrahim Hirsi is a dedicated staff writer at MinnPost who strives to give a voice to the voiceless. It is his responsibility to cover workforce and immigration issues in the Twin Cities metro area. Before joining MinnPost, he worked for the Twin Cities Daily Planet and St. Cloud Times. He embarked on his journalism career in 2006 and has…

This millennial world is a much different landscape than the world those of us born in the ’70s and ’80s remember. Social media and the ability to communicate and engage seamlessly on a global platform are the biggest contributors to this changing backdrop, but according to debut author Chandra Meadows the process of coming into…

Sandra L. Richards started writing as a child. She used to spend nights chronicling life encounters and poems in a journal. Creative expression and reading were an outlet for Richards which made it easy to write her first book. “I always had a creative story [to tell],” she says. She recalls in college her final…

For some, it started with a video of substitute teacher spitting a powerful spoken-word about his life in a classroom that instantly went viral, but for now-23-year-old Kondwani Fidel, his moment started long before that. The Baltimore native is a writer, speaker and poet who is traveling the world to touch lives with his story.…

Philadelphia native Mya Kay Douglas is a best-selling author that’s set to make literary history on April 4, 2017, as the first person to release three books on the same day. Two of her books are celebrity collaborations (Before Empire: Raising Bryshere “Yazz The Greatest” Gray and S.E.A.L.: Sex, Entertainment and Lies with Londell “Niko London”…