(Photographed by A Turner Archives #Arnold Turner) Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman proclaimed Oct. 10 the official “Magic Johnson Day “and presented him with a Key to the City in front of generations of fans during a special half-time ceremony at Los Angeles LAKERS vs GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS exhibition game. The game and ceremony were held at T-Mobile arena, with fans, friends, and family happy to witness him receiving the honor. Congratulations, Magic!
On Instagram straight flexin’… It’s NYFW but Diddy is giving fans a front row seat to this year’s Sean John show, the first of its kind, which will be on Instagram! Via News Release : Fashion maven and Social media innovator Sean Combs creates another first with the launch of the Sean John Instagram fashion show. The viral event will take place today, Friday February 8 at 10:00AM ET. Combs will be posting new looks every 30 minutes from 10:00AM – 5:00PM ET. Viewers will be invited to check out images from the latest collection only available at Macy’s. “In honor of New York fashion week we wanted to do something that has never been done before,” said Combs. “With Instagram technology we are bringing Sean John to the social media runway where our consumer lives.” Look at Diddy making Black History during Black History Month… To view the Instagram Fashion Show visit http://instagram.com/iamdiddy Or you can keep checking back here as we will continue to update during the day with the looks from the show. Hit the flip for the looks shown so far!
We hear ya Vi, ain’t nobody got time for that! After defending The Help from accusations that the roles were setting Black people back half a century last year, Hollyweird actress Viola Davis is finally admitting she is rather tired of playing a downtrodden black soul! Via US Weekly reports : Viola Davis has been there, done that. The actress, who earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as a Southern maid in 2011′s The Help, says she has no intention of playing a domestic worker ever again. In her latest film, Beautiful Creatures, Davis plays a librarian named Amma. The character is a hybrid of two characters, a maid and librarian, who first appeared in the popular book series by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. “I’m tired of that,” Davis, 47, tells CNN of playing a housekeeper. “Me and Octavia [Spencer], Aunjanue Ellis, Roslyn Ruff — we all played maids in The Help and it was fabulous. It’s a fabulous story because we were personalized and all of those things, but I think that people need to see an African American in the 21st century integrated in the life of this town and family who’s not in servitude.” Directed by Richard LaGravenese, Beautiful Creatures tells the story of an ordinary high school student, Ethan Wate, who falls in love with a potentially dangerous caster named Lena Duchannes. Davis praised newcomers Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert for bringing the characters to life on the big screen. “They weren’t thinking about, ‘Everything is resting on my shoulders, how are people going to receive the movie?’ That is not your job as an actor,” Davis tells CNN. “They were artists doing their job, in the moment, without vanity, with courage. And that’s what I respected about them, I really did. There’s no sense of stress in any of them. It was wonderful to watch.” Beautiful Creatures is in theaters Feb. 14. SMH. NOW she’s tired of playing a maid? She sure wasn’t talking this yang last year. Wonder what made her see the light? Oh yeah all the attention she got from playing a maid. Talk about irony. Do you think Viola will regret her vow if Hollywood comes to her with another blockbuster with lots of juicy maid parts? You can do it Viola. You is kind, you is smart, you is important!!!!
The air date for “Betty And Coretta” has finally arrived. Will you be watching? Here’s some info via the AJC : …Lifetime finds a new angle: the friendship between their widows, Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King, after their husbands were assassinated during the turbulent 1960s. The film, “Betty & Coretta,” debuts at 8 tonight starring Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett as King and R&B singer Mary J. Blige as Shabazz. Though Malcolm X and King were not particularly close, the widows found common ground starting in the early 1970s as single mothers with history-making spouses. Their ties grew stronger over the years until Shabazz’s death in 1997 from a tragic fire set by her grandson. They even took a spa vacation together. Larry Sanitsky, an executive producer for the film, considered King “the Jackie Kennedy of the civil rights movement.” The film conveys how she embraced her husband’s legacy. Bassett, who actually played Shabazz in the acclaimed 1992 film “Malcolm X” starring Denzel Washington, told ABC News that King considered her role “a God-given purpose, a calling on her life.” King’s activism inspired Shabazz to become more vocal in the movement as well. “These women were going through some horrible trials, and they were so strong,” Blige said in a recent news conference. “It’s good for Coretta that she stepped out and she made Martin’s voice heard; she made her own voice heard, and so did Betty.” Actress Ruby Dee, who was friends with both of them, narrates the movie. It was filmed in Montreal, which masqueraded as New York and Atlanta, among other cities. Sanitsky said he was thrilled Lifetime chose to air this film, in a move “not driven by numbers or working the headlines. This is a little-known piece of American history.” Sounds like a great way to kick off Black History Month! Photo Credit: Lifetime
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