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Rihanna will be the 2023 Halftime Show headliner for Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, 2023 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The superstar billionairess announced the news with a photo of her hand holding up an NFL football! The official NFL Instagram account confirmed the news by posting the same photo with the caption: “Let’s Go!” On Sept. 24, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky exited the Rolling Loud Festival after party at 42 D’OR Nightclub on 42nd Street hand-in-hand. Rocky hosted the event.

Todd Bridges tied the knot with fashion designer Bettijo B. Hirschi in front of 70 guests on Sept. 21 at Greystone Mansion & Gardens in Beverly Hills, Calif., reports People. The former “Different Strokes” star told the outlet: the couple wanted to get married in a small ceremony with “just our closest friends and family.” The “Celebrity Big Brother” alumni added it was special to marry “somebody that he is madly in love with.” The new Mrs. Bridges walked down the aisle in a dress she designed herself. The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Italian restaurant, Il Cielo. The newlyweds met through a mutual friend this past March.

On Sept. 22, ALL BLK released the season finale of the new dramedy series “Send Help.” The show features a special guest appearance by Emmy-nominated actress, producer and co-creator of “Insecure,” Issa Rae. This half-hour dramedy follows Fritz Jean-Baptiste (Jean Elie), a first-generation Haitian American actor, who is on top of the world since landing a starring role on the fictional hit TV show, “This Can’t Be Us”.... all while being the sole support system for his incredibly demanding Haitian family, and also reeling from a recent tragedy.

The Apollo Theater in Harlem kicks off Apollo Comedy Club and Apollo Music Cafe shows starting Thursday, Oct. 6. The Apollo Comedy Club celebrates the theater’s rich comedic roots with the best up-and-coming talent today. Presented in partnership with the legendary Bob Sumner (producer of Def Comedy Jam, creator of Laff Mobb on Aspire). The Oct. 6 line-up includes Saya Meads, Kenney Woo, Dylan Tucker and (host) Derrick Eason. The Apollo Music Cafe presents independent artists to a unique audience. For October, the soulful sounds of George Lovett (Oct. 7) and soulful powerhouse Stout (Oct. 8) will perform in front of a live audience.

Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. conduct 7th annual walk for homicide victims

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO

Special to the AmNews

“Stop the gun violence, put the guns down,” a crowd of 30 people chanted as they stopped traffic and marched down Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue on Sunday, Sept. 25.

“Save our children!” they shouted: “Save our children now! Education up—put the guns down!”

In a demonstration orchestrated by the nonprofit Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. (Stop Another Violent End) and NYPD Youth Strategies, marchers paraded through Downtown Brooklyn and then made their way to McLaughlin Park, right at the foot of the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge.

The marchers were commemorating Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E.’s 7th annual “National Day of Remembrance Walk for Homicide Victims” by making a stop at the McLaughlin Park playground—the site where Unique Smith, a student at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools, was fatally shot on Sep. 8 after he’d gotten into an argument and fistfight with two boys. One of the boys—dressed in a black hoodie, black pants, and a ski mask—shot Smith in the chest and although EMS was able to transport him to Methodist Hospital, Smith was pronounced dead a short while after arriving.

Officers from the NYPD’s 84th Precinct had escorted marchers to the park. After the crowd passed through the area where Unique Smith was killed, a march leader took the mic to speak about the day’s event. “We are here joining the other boroughs going down to City Hall from Brooklyn—there are those who are walking all the way from the Bronx. This is a national day and today we’ve chosen this spot as one of the locations of a child murdered. Because a 15-year-old who went to school that day and was in the park––as a normal child should be––lost his life in that space over there.

“So, with that being said, we’re asking you to join us in a moment of silence to commemorate his life and then afterwards to always know that we have to fight for our children’s futures.”

In 2007, Congress designated September 25th as the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims in the United States.