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Missy gets a street named after her in her hometown. Congrats 2 Missy Elliott!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Nigeria wants to keep its attention on its homegrown talent as far as TV commercials are concerned, which is why they are said to be banning foreign models from appearing in televised adverts and voiceover work. The decision was made after a previous study revealed how foreign talent had quite literally dominated the advertising market — but the country is now hoping to rectify this by only allowing its own kind to front upcoming commercial projects.
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Steve Babaeko, who is Nigeria’s President of the Association of Advertising Agencies, expressed to The Sunday Times, “Britons accounted for about half of models and voiceover artists in Nigerian commercials a couple of decades ago.” British accents, in particular, had led most of the market up until recent years where more Nigerian locals were hired to front TV commercials.
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But starting this October, as part of the “policy of developing local talent,” foreign models and voiceover artists will no longer be featured in TV ads. Furthermore, Babaeko believes that there has been “some kind of renaissance” in the country that has seen a lot of rising talent emerge, particularly among young people. With that in mind, Babeko added, “There are about 200 million of us. Are you telling me you could not find indigenous models for this commercial?”
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Mike Tyson is not happy about the new Hulu biopic about his life.... He says “Don’t let Hulu fool you. I don’t support their story about my life,” “They stole my life story and didn’t pay me. To Hulu executives I’m just a n****r they can sell on the auction block.”

🔥✊🏾Byron Allen Strikes Deal With CBS To Bring HBCU Sports To Major Broadcast And Streaming Platforms!

THE MEDIA MOGUL'S STREAMING APP HBCU GO NOW HAS NATIONWIDE CLEARANCE FOR THEIR 2022-23 SPORTS SEASON.

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17-year-old DC teen becomes one of the youngest licensed Black pilots in US

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Nobody Can Touch Her Legacy - Players React to Serena Retirement News. Read their quotes...

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99 years young! Happy Birthday to & ’s mommy 😍😍😊

Rap icons JAY-Z & Will Smith, have now invested N69.9b to help house renters become homeowners.

They jointly put the money into a tech company and it’s to be used to get about 1000 houses that will be rented out to low-income families.

The cast of the 1989 television pilot ‘A Little Bit Strange’ about an African-American family of sorcerers. The pilot was never picked up after airing. 🖤

Love Dorsey dropping gems 💎 ✨️

Love Dorsey on Instagram: "Only the real will understand!" Love Dorsey shared a post on Instagram: "Only the real will understand!". Follow their account to see 793 posts.

Watch A 35-Year-Old Mom Become The World's Fastest Woman -- Again The Jamaican legend won the 100 meters at the World Championships for the fifth time.

July 25 marks what would have been Emmett Till’s 81st birthday. Emmett was 14 years old when he was abducted, tortured, and killed by two white men in 1955, for allegedly flirting with a white woman in a grocery store.

Emmett, as well as his mother Mamie Till-Mobley, have been iconic figures of the Civil Rights Movement for decades. But his name has re-entered the news cycle this summer due to recent headlines.

Last week, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that Emmett’s childhood home in Chicago is one of 33 sites significant to Black American history that will receive preservation funding. And this morning, MGM Studios released the trailer for ‘Till,’ an upcoming biopic that follows Emmett’s legacy and his mother’s fight for justice after his murder. Directed by Chinonye Chukwu and starring Jayln Hall and Danielle Deadwyler, the film will hit theaters in October 2022.

A bank that helped finance the Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s best known landmarks, drained millions of dollars from Haiti. That history has been all but erased — but The New York Times tracked the money.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/french-banks-haiti-cic.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Whoopi Goldberg Says Her Character Is 'Much More of an Adult Now' in Sister Act 3: 'It Feels Right' Whoopi Goldberg gives an update on 'Sister Act 3' saying 'it feels right' returning to the role

Jimmie Walker aka J.J. Evans with the legendary Ernie Barnes who was the real artist behind J.J.’s paintings on Good Times.

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Netflix today announced that Grammy-nominated, Oscar and Golden Globe award-winning actor and comedian Mo’Nique will film her first Netflix original stand-up comedy special this year in Atlanta.

Mo’Nique said in a video clip via : “Hey y’all it’s your girl Mo’Nique and I’m excited to say that I’ll be shooting my first Netflix special; in addition to reuniting with my friend, Director Lee Daniels on the Netflix film The Deliverance. You won’t want to miss either of them, so stay tuned! Thank you all and I love y’all to life!”

Details about Mo’Nique’s stand-up special will be shared later this year! Congrats ! 🙌🏾🙏🏾❤️

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At only 13, she’s already been accepted into med school She’s only 13, and Alena Analeigh Wicker is already making history. Wicker recently became the youngest Black person ever to be accepted into medical school.

Throwback photo of Denzel and Pauletta Washington! 💕

Jay-Z on the Cost of Doing Features With Him: ‘I Never Charge’ During his interview with Kevin Hart for Season 2 of the comedian's Peacock series 'Hart to Heart,' Jay-Z opened up about the cost of collaborating with him.

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NBA legend Charles Barkley donates $1M to Atlanta's Spelman College

Boston, 1979. Photograph by Spencer Grant via the Boston Public Library

Memorial Day, formally known as Decoration Day, was originally started by a group of African Americans. The popular holiday was, in fact, initially an event held by newly liberated slaves in Charleston, South Carolina.

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