She won two awards in the music categories: outstanding song, for the “I Look To You” duet with R. Kelly

PBS announced it will launch the PBS Black Culture Connection, a digital storybook of Black films, history, trends and discussion that’s available throughout the year on PBS.org, on Feb. 1, 2013

Reginald Hudlin has been nominated for an Academy Award. Hudlin, an Assumption High School graduate, is one of the producers of the Quentin Tarantino film, ‘Django Unchained,’ which was nominated for Best Picture recently.

Samuel L. Jackson is set to top line a live action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Japanese anime film “Kite