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Review: Usher shines at star-studded 2024 Super Bowl halftime show
Read full article: Review: Usher shines at star-studded 2024 Super Bowl halftime showUsher emerged at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium for the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show, an immediate confirmation of his position as the ideal halftime performer: one with timeless, well-known hits, masterful choreography, and a devoted audience.
Jermaine Dupri commemorates 50 years of hip-hop at Essence Festival of Culture
Read full article: Jermaine Dupri commemorates 50 years of hip-hop at Essence Festival of CultureKnown as a rapper, super producer and music mogul, Jermaine Dupri is astonished that 30 years have passed since he founded his label, So So Def.
Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion headline 2023 Essence Fest
Read full article: Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion headline 2023 Essence FestThis summer's Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans will commemorate the 50th anniversary of hip hop with performances by Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion and Jermaine Dupri.
'Honor the ancestors': Harris appeals directly to Black men
Read full article: 'Honor the ancestors': Harris appeals directly to Black men“I’m not going to tell anybody, including Black men, that they’re supposed to vote for us. We need to earn that vote,” Harris told a roundtable of Black men in one of several stops across Atlanta, the Democratic base of Georgia, an emerging battleground state. But Harris, the first Black woman on a major party’s national ticket, said Trump’s pitch is rooted in “spinning” and misrepresenting her record and the Democratic ticket’s proposals. “Joe Biden has the ability to say the words ‘Black Lives Matter,’ unlike that other fella,” Harris told a group of students from Atlanta’s historically Black college campuses. “Yes, I decided to go up the rough side of the mountain, as we say in church,” Harris told him, framing her career choice as a conscious decision to change a “flawed” system from within.
Rapper Trina's Mom, Vernessa Taylor, Dies Following Battle With Cancer
Read full article: Rapper Trina's Mom, Vernessa Taylor, Dies Following Battle With CancerVernessa Nessa Taylor, the mother of rapper and reality star, Katrina Trina Taylor, died on Monday morning, ET has learned. Taylor passed away at approximately 12.30 a.m. following a battle with cancer. Thank you all for your kind words and condolences regarding Trinas mother, a rep for Trina told ET in a statement. It truly gives the family some peace and comfort knowing that Nessa lived such a fulfilling life filled with love and abundance. Trina paid tribute to her mom in her 2017 song, Mama (The One,) which included lyrics about wanting to pass away before her mother so that she wouldnt have to deal with the loss.