Black Music Month 2020 Playlist: Kota the Friend Wants to Remind Black Artists That Independence Is Power

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has landed the North American rights to BBC One’s estranged family comedy The Other One, which stars BAFTA-winning Avenue 5 actress Rebecca Front.Acorn TV, which has also acquired The Other One in the Netherlands, will premiere the Tiger Aspect show on August 10 in the U.S.

It's been a few days since the world was in a state of shock as Kanye West revealed via Twitter that he was running for the 2020 US presidential elections. On July 4 (quite poetic as it's US' Independence Day!), the rapper had tweeted, "We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future.

Snow tha Product's latest freestyle "On My Sh--" that she released yesterday (July 7) is the product of her latest experiment.She teased the video on her Instagram on Monday (July 6), writing, "process of making a song from scratch n shooting this myself in my livingroom (5,000 comments n ill drop this and the vlog about it)." More than 6,000 comments flooded the post about the untitled project at the time, prompting the Mexican American rapper to drop it.Sitting on a cube chair and occasionally

Kanye West has said that he is running for US president under “The Birthday Party”, and will make Elon Musk the “head of our space program” should he win.Taking to Twitter on Independence Day in the US (July 4), the rapper wrote: “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterGKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch, directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) and produced by studio co-founder Toshio Suzuki, with planning on the feature from his father and Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).Based on the children’s novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), Earwig and the Witch marks Studio

Kanye West is running for US President. The rapper, who’s often teased the possibility of throwing his hat in the ring for the top job, tweeted his plans last week (on US Independence Day, no less), saying: “we must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future.

Kanye West took the internet by storm when he announced that he will be contesting for elections this year. The rapper has garnered all kinds of reactions since his announcement.

Kanye West has long teased the possibility of running for US President, but in a new tweet, the rapper finally made the announcement: he’s running in the 2020 election.Posted on Independence Day in the US (July 4), West said, “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future.

Kanye West took to Twitter on July 4th to announce his intentions to run for President of the United States in 2020. «We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWith his Quibi short-form series Blackballed, executive producer Will Packer set out to explore the intersection of race and sports, in the context of an explosive and pivotal moment in American sports history.Directed by Mike Jacobs, the show dissects five days during the 2014 NBA playoffs, when Los Angeles Clippers players and head coach Doc Rivers were hit with a bombshell revelation.In April of that year, longtime Clippers owner Donald Sterling

Billboard hope to uplift and empower African Americans during this cloudy and dubious time. For the month of June, Billboard had artists provide a playlist designed to remedy the heartaches endured by the Black community.Newly-signed Warner Records vocalist Bren Joy is the last artist to whip up a hearty playlist for us, one that centers on finding "love ourselves and our community as a whole.""During these times, it’s extremely important to feel and embrace.

TESUQUE PUEBLO, N.M. -- A small northern New Mexico Native American tribe has opened a movie studio in a former casino that it hopes will lure big productions.

to Mexico.”“Trump says Fourth of July celebrates American independence, ‘but most people don’t know that.'”“Lindsey Graham debuts one-man show ‘Lindsay with a Y.'”“Airport Sbarro reopens with the same two calzones from April.”“Trump shoots men on 5th Avenue, aides claim he was just joking.”“All musicians on Earth demand Trump stop playing their music at his rallies,” though Maher accidentally pronounced it like it rhymed with “allies,” before correcting himself.“Protesters demand Village People

LOS ANGELES -- “Family Guy” voice actor Mike Henry said Friday he is stepping down from the role of Cleveland Brown on the Fox animated series. Henry wrote on Twitter that he will stop playing the show’s main African American character because “persons of color should play characters of color.” The 54-year-old voice actor, who is a white man, has voiced the character since the series’ debut in 1999.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerVoice actor Mike Henry said Friday on Twitter that he no longer will voice the Cleveland Brown character on Fox’s animated Family Guy.Henry, who is white, has voiced the African-American Brown since the show’s inception in 1999. He also voiced the character and his son, Rallo Tubbs, on the spinoff, The Cleveland Show, which ran for four years on Fox.Henry was a voice on Family Guy since its 1999 debut.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterGKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights for Masaaki Yuasa’s animated feature Inu-Oh. GKIDS, Japanese production company Science SARU INC.

This year, Black Music Month took a different turn. Because of the horrific deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and more at the hands of police, we at Billboard hope to uplift and empower African Americans during this cloudy and dubious time. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the remainder of the month, an artist will provide a playlist designed to remedy the heartaches endured by the Black community.