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Jill Scott is ready to play the queen. The Grammy-winning singer and sometimes actress has signed on to topline Mahalia! playing the queen of gospel Mahalia Jackson in a new biopic that counts collaborators in Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah, two stars who have navigated the moves from music and movies to critically acclaimed biopics with successful results.

Jill Scott is set to play Mahalia Jackson in the upcoming biopic Mahalia!, based on the novel Mahalia Jackson written by Darlene Donloe.As reported by Deadline, Mahalia! will also be produced by Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx, Shakim Compere and Holly Carter.

In the summer of 1989, less than two months after the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a dramatization of racial tensions between Black and Italian Americans in Brooklyn, Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death for being a Black boy in a white neighborhood just a few miles from the film's Bedford-Stuyvesant setting. Sixteen years old, Hawkins was the victim of an impromptu mob in Bensonhurst that had gathered to attack another Black youth rumored to be dating an Italian-American girl.

Michele Morrone is responding to critics of “365 Days”.

.@Scaramucci, who just made a fool of himself as he got taken apart by @SteveHiltonx, only lasted 11 days in his favorite of all time Administration, before being fired for, again, making a fool of himself. Anthony is a loser who begged to come back.

faces charges of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force, sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery. The charges stem from the accounts of three women for incidents that took place in 2010 and 2013 in Los Angeles.Weinstein, who has denied accusations of nonconsensual sex, faces up to 29 years in prison in the Los Angeles case.

Kesha is giving us a look at what the world looks like for her.On Tuesday (August 4), Kesha released her official music video for "Little Bit of Love" off of her latest album High Road. The new visual, shot entirely in quarantine by Kesha and her boyfriend Brad using an iPhone and a green screen, sees Kesha dreaming about a whirlwind adventure with her cat, Mr.

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Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLifetime has extended its partnership with journalist Robin Roberts for four new movies and they are about to fuel the soul with Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story. The movie will star Tony Award nominee, SAG and Grammy Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as the titular iconic gospel legend and civil rights activist while Tony winner Kenny Leon (Broadway’s A Raisin in the Sun, Fences,

Guy Lodge Film CriticBack in October (which, in a COVID-19 timeline, may as well be last century) a smallish film called “Lucy in the Sky,” starring Natalie Portman as a post-mission astronaut struggling to accept the limitations of life on earth, opened and closed in short order. It was neither as bad as its dismal reviews and mortifying box office would have you believe, nor as good as you’d hope for from any of the talent involved.

There will be extra police patrols at a park in north Manchester this week following concerns revellers are planning to host a party.The event has been advertised to take place in Boggart Hole Clough, in Blackley, where police have already prevented a number of pre-planned raves from happening.In a post on Facebook Councillor Hannah Priest, who represents the Charlestown ward, told residents there will be a visible police presence in the area after police and Manchester City Council were made

The upcoming “Real Housewives Of New York City” reunion is heading back into the studio.

Naomi Campbell is ready to see some actual change in the fashion industry.When virtually stopping by a Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Tuesday, July 28, the 50-year-old supermodel addressed Anna Wintour‘s recent statement to the staff at Vogue.For a little refresh, back in June at the height of the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter movement, the Condé Nast artistic director emailed employees an apology for “hurtful” and “intolerant” behavior at Vogue, adding that they would