‘Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story’ will debut on TV One, Sunday June 12, 2016 at 7 p.m. EST. Red hot actress Teyonah Parris stars as Howard, the R&B chanteuse with musical chops that rivaled Whitney...
Accomplished actress and singer Anika Noni Rose never settles for playing characters that could potentially make her audiences or herself comfortable. The trouper’s portrayal as Kizzy, Kunta Kinte’s and Belle’s daughte...
The HBO docudrama All the Way chronicles Lyndon Baines Johnson’s first year as President of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Breaking Bad’s Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston repris...
“Every single honor that I receive is only saying to me ‘Do more. Do more. Do more.’” That declaration is a tender and harmonic refrain that music legend and humanitarian Stevie Wonder vocalizes prior to receiving a Doctor of Huma...
Funnyman Rickey Smiley thinks of comedy as his calling. The stand-up comic and star of TV One’s original docuseries Rickey Smiley For Real grants viewers a backstage pass into his life at home as a single father raising his two bi...
CNN is reporting Afeni Shakur-Davis, mother of iconic rapper Tupac Shakur has died. Elliott C. McLaughlin reports: “Though she is best known as Tupac Shakur’s mom, she was also a Black Panther as a young adult and an ...
The internet is buzzing with celebrated musician D’Angelo’s tribute to Prince on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show. D’Angelo performed Prince’s hit ‘Sometimes it Snows in April,’ along with ...
Writing for the Huffington Post, The Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., reviews Cynthia Mort’s controversial biopic starring Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone and David Oyelowo as Clifton Hen...
CNN is reporting influential Congo music star Jules Papa Wemba has passed away, after collapsing on stage during a performance Saturday night at the Urban Music Festival in Ivory Coast. Andreas Preuss of CNN writes: “Papa We...
The Burton Wire is mourning the loss of legendary musician Prince Rogers Nelson, one of the greatest musical influences of modern music. Prince, a prodigy, a provocateur and a complete game-changer in popular music, died Thursday ...
