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Amazon Gives You Free Music Download: Enter Code FIRSTMIL

Amazon.com gave away a free MP3 to its Twitter followers Thursday, saying that users could download an MP3 worth $1.29 or less for free, in celebration of the firm hitting over 1 million Twitter followers.

Tupac's Estate Enters Court April 13, 2010

Lawyers for Amaru Entertainment scored a major victory against Morgan Creek Productions in the Superior Court for the State of California on Tuesday, September 1, when Judge Richard E. Rico ruled in their favor and upheld Amaru Entertainment's cross-complaint for tortious intentional interference.  A trial date has now been set for Tuesday, April 13, 2010.

Under Reported: Powerhouse F. Gray Creates New Movie With Jamie Foxx Law Abiding Citizen

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Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Team Up for Big Screen Version of Landmark Play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

LIONSGATE has acquired worldwide distribution rights to filmmaker Tyler Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF. Perry will write, direct and produce. The film will be the first project for 34th Street Films, Perry's new production company, which is housed at Lionsgate. Paul Hall (PRIDE) also produces.

Ebony Fashion Fair Cancels Fall 2009 Show

The Ebony Fashion Fair — a catwalk show that traveled across the country, Canada and the Bahamas bringing designer fashion from around the world to predominantly black audiences — has put it’s fall 2009 schedule on hiatus.

The reason? The economy.

Just a year after celebrating its 50th anniversary, the annual show featuring African-American female and male models has been canceled by the producer Johnson Publishing Company, which also publishes Ebony and Jet magazines.

Mustafa Hassanali Collection Arise Africa Fashion Week

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People To Know: Tai Murray Becomes Internationally Acclaimed Violinist

Acclaimed as "superb" by The New York Times, twenty-six year old violinist Tai Murray is a rising star of her generation increasingly in demand for both recitals and orchestral engagements. She has performed on the stages of Berlin's Konzerthaus, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, Shanghai's Concert Hall and New York's Carnegie Hall and has collaborated with a wide range of conductors and instrumentalists including Marin Alsop, Richard Goode, Alan Gilbert, Jaime Laredo, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Mitsuko Uchida.

Smithsonian Has Free Museum Day On September 26, 2009 - Free Admission Card

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Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide on Saturday, September 26, 2009

Present the Museum Day admission card to receive free general admission at participating Museum Day locations.

Naomi Campbell Claims That Racism Has Made It Especially Difficult For Black Models To Get Booked

"This year, we have gone back all the way that we had advanced," she says. "I don't see any black woman, or of any other race, in big advertising campaigns."

Campbell, who was born in London to a mother of Caribbean descent, refers to the publication last year of a special edition of Italian Vogue dedicated to non-white models.

Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival winners 2009

Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival winners 2009

The Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival (MVAAFF), produced by Run & Shoot Filmworks, Inc. announced the winners of the HBO and Saatchi &Saatchi competitions held Saturday, August 8th, 2009.

56 films were chosen from almost 300 submissions submitted from around the world. There were three categories-short, feature, documentary-were selected for the competitions.

The 2009 winners of the HBO Film Competition have been chosen:

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