Regina Hall Honors Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the ‘Father of Black History’: ‘It’s Stories Like His That Need to Be Told’

Regina Spektor has announced her new album ‘Home, Before And After’ and shared the single ‘Becoming All Alone’ – you can hear the track below.The forthcoming LP, which will be her eighth studio album, is the follow-up to the US artist’s September 2016 album ‘Remember Us To Life’.Described in a press release as Spektor’s “most quintessentially ‘New York’ [record] in decades”, ‘Home, Before And After’ was recorded in upstate New York and produced by Spektor and John Congleton.‘Home, Before And After’ is set for release on June 24 via Warner. You can hear the record’s first single, ‘Becoming All Alone’, in the below lyric video.You can see the tracklist for Regina Spektor’s ‘Home, Before And After’ below, and pre-order the album here.01 ‘Becoming All Alone’02 ‘Up the Mountain’03 ‘One Man’s Prayer’04 ‘Raindrops’05 ‘SugarMan’06 ‘What Might Have Been’07 ‘Spacetime Fairytale’08 ‘Coin’09 ‘Loveology’10 ‘Through a Door’Spektor will perform tracks from ‘Home, Before And After’ during a special live show at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April, before a run of dates in Utah and Colorado in July.

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season 2 reunion. ET has your exclusive first look at the three-part special, which finds  executive producer Andy Cohen sitting down with  of the cast: Jen Shah, Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, Meredith Marks, Lisa Barlow and Jennie Nguyen.

NEW YORK -- Afrofuturism is getting a spotlight at Carnegie Hall as the bastion of New York City music and culture takes another step toward normalcy.Grammy Award winner Flying Lotus, also known as FlyLo, makes his Carnegie debut Saturday night to open a two-month Afrofuturism festival, which includes more than 80 events at the hall and partnering institutions."It is something which is kind of hard to explain in a certain way,” said Adriaan Fuchs, Carnegie’s director of festivals and special projects. “But at the same time, it is something which one senses and knows as soon as you see it.”Carnegie was shuttered from March 13, 2020, until last Oct.

Tilane Jones Guest ColumnistFor me, Black History Month is best illustrated by my 92-year-old grandmother Ella Queen Johnson’s recall of our family stories. She shares these stories knowing that the wider world lacks a true and full recognition of the African American family legacy. For most of her long life, she has known that she should not look for depth and dimension in film and television as it relates to families like ours.

Scotty McCreery visits a familiar location in his new music video.

mxmtoon has released ‘mona lisa’, a new single from her sophomore album that will be released later this year. The artist known as Maia has also announced North American tour dates – find those below.The single was released on streaming platforms on February 8 alongside art depicting the singer as the iconic Leonardo da Vinci painting.The ukulele-driven song invites the listener to daydream, mxmtoon checking off references to several famous artists, including William Shakespeare and Frida Kahlo, as she sings: “I wanna be a Mona Lisa / The kinda girl that you can dream of”.Listen to mxmtoon’s ‘mona lisa’ below.The single is taken from mxmtoon’s upcoming sophomore album, which has yet to be given a release date.In a statement, she said, “As someone who usually writes songs about other people, one of my ongoing questions is ‘will anyone ever write songs about me?’”“‘mona lisa’ is about wanting to be the subject of the art for once instead of being the creator.

Michelle Obama has shared a gorgeous throwback picture from 1991 - and she looks so much like her eldest daughter Malia in the snap.MORE: How Barack and Michelle Obama dealt with daughter's very difficult health diagnosis"I was just Michelle Robinson, an assistant to Mayor Daley at City Hall," Michelle shared of the picture, taken by Antonio Dickey, a Black photographer whom Michelle is celebrating as part of Black History Month.WATCH: Michelle Obama announces 2021's international solo BRIT artist winner"This is a month of celebration—a time to not only reflect on the heroes in our history books, but to honor the Black people who are quietly working every day to improve and enrich our communities right here and now. Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing the stories of extraordinary individuals who are making a difference in communities across our country.

Michelle Obama is sharing stories of individuals who are making a difference in communities across the country. She shared a black and white photo by Chicago based photographer Antonio Dickey and wrote, “This is a month of celebration—a time to not only reflect on the heroes in our history books, but to honor the Black people who are quietly working every day to improve and enrich our communities right here and now.” “Today, I’m starting with Antonio Dickey,” she continued.The photo Michelle shared was taken by Dickey when she spoke with students at a school resource event in 1991. “Back then, I was just Michelle Robinson, an assistant to Mayor Daley at City Hall,” she wrote.

Trayvon Martin in Florida also get attention.The post-George Floyd onset of racial reckoning and the subsequent backlash have coincided with the growth of streaming and its voracious need for content, a two-fold incentive for TV to pay heed to the sweep and nuance of Black experience.With broadcast networks and cable channels trying to keep pace with flush streaming services, there’s an impressive field of documentaries, profiles and more ahead. Among the highlights (all times are Eastern):—“One Thousand Years of Slavery,” Smithsonian Channel, Feb. 7-28.

Booked and busy! Isaac Powell didn’t appear in any episodes of And Just Like That despite being cast as a series regular.

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Liza Chasin’s 3dot Productions have optioned the rights to Sarah Vaughan’s upcoming novel Reputation to develop as a television series. This marks Vaughan’s second collaboration with Papandrea and Chasin following the high-profile limited series adaptation of Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal for Netflix.

Today marks the start of Black History Month, with the broadcast and cable networks and streamers planning a slew of TV series, movies, news programming, documentaries, specials and more to roll out over the course of February to celebrate, educate and entertain.

Tuesday marks the start of Black History Month, with the broadcast and cable networks and streamers planning a slew of TV series, movies, news programming, documentaries, specials and more to roll out over the course of February to celebrate, educate and entertain.

Beyoncé, B.B. King, Ike & Tina Turner and other stars, while the tour will focus on the career of Mavis Staples of the Staple Singers.Pat Mitchell Worley, executive director of the Stax Music Academy, said in a statement: “Even with the ongoing waves of the COVID virus and other events that continue changing the world by the day, our Stax Music Academy students still find a great deal of comfort and happiness in studying, creating, rehearsing, and performing music.”Fans can register for the exhibition here.A statement on the Stax website added: “Join Stax Music Academy (SMA) students as they explore the people, places, politics, economics, and culture that gave birth to Black American Music that continues to be relevant decades later.“After the extraordinary national/international success of SMA’s virtual programming last year, with more than 130,000 viewers in 27 states and 12 foreign countries, our 2022 Black History Month productions will offer even more.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Stax Museum of American Soul Music and its music academy in Tennessee are once again offering an online concert and a virtual tour in honor of Black History Month in February.The Memphis-based studio produced soul music by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, the Staples Singers, Booker T.

IFC Films and Shudder have taken North American rights to Andrew Semans’ psychological thriller Resurrection starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper.