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third Black person. Whoopi Goldberg first earned the distinction in 2002, followed by John ANTHONY Legend in 2018. Hudson is also the first American Idol contestant to become an EGOT. Her new talk Newark, New Jersey marked an- show debuts in the fall. other big milestone June 13 from a celebrity-turned-housing develAspire TV recently premiered a oper when Shaquille O’Neal re- new music series “London Love” turned to his hometown to give the to celebrate Black Music Month. residents an update about “Shaq The weekly television program Tower 2,” reports patch.com. Shaq will feature live, previously rewas among those present, who in- corded performances and exclucluded Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sive interviews from some of the and NJ Gov. Phil Murphy at a top- hottest artists in music includping-off ceremony for 777 McCart- ing Usher, Cee Lo Green, Sean er, which officials say is the “largest “Diddy” Combs, Jason DeRulo and 80/20 mixed income project in New A$AP Rocky. The series will air SatJersey.” It will also house a pent- urdays and Sundays throughout house apartment that will become the month of June exclusively on the new home of the NBA Hall Aspire TV. of Famer, who is partnering with Boraie Development on the projFormer “Empire” star Jussie Smolect. “When I first met Mayor Ras lett’s directorial debut, “B-Boy Baraka, we talked about restoring Blues,” the film adaptation of James my favorite city to its past glory,” Earl Hardy’s best-selling novel, held said O’Neal. a private screening film premiere on June 8 at Silverspot Cinema in AtOn June 12, Jennifer Hudson lanta with a room filled with nearly joined the elite group of 17 en- 200 LGBTQ influencers, commutertainers in the history of Holly- nity organizations and cast and wood to become an EGOT. Hudson crew. Following the premiere was picked up her final qualifying a Q&A hosted by Dr. Daniel Black award at the 2022 Tony Awards as with the cast, Smollett, James Earl co-producer of “A Strange Loop” Hardy and Mona Scott-Young. which won Best Musical. JHud “B-Boy Blues” is available now is only the second Black woman on BET+. Celebrities who attendto receive an Emmy, Grammy, ed included Kandi Burruss and Oscar and Tony Award and the Miss Lawrence.
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Lena Waithe, Cynthia Erivo, and Phylicia Rashad at the Tonys (David Goodson photo)
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March for Our Lives protestors take over Brooklyn Bridge
It is time to be rid of the “paralysis of analysis,” and do something to address the ongoing national pandemic of gun crime, demanded New York Attorney General Letitia James at the
(Nayaba Arinde photos)
March for Our Lives rally in Downtown Brooklyn. Calling for the passage of comprehensive gun control laws, hundreds of chanting, poster-waving marchers took to the Brooklyn
Bridge on Saturday, June 11. In the wake of the recent Buffalo and Ulvade, Texas mass shootings, there were hundreds of similar rallies from Washington, D.C. to Florida.
