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History in the making - Two Black Women nominated for Lead Actress Award!!

Viola Davis of "How to Get Away With Murder" and Taraji P. Henson of "Empire" have both been nominated for the prestigious 'Outstanding Leading Actress in a Drama Series'.

Never before in the history of the Emmy's have two black women been nominated for the same category, an  no black woman has ever won the coveted 'Lead Actress' category. Kinda flies in the face that TV audiences can't handle diversity, and that commercial success can be achieved with people of colour!!

Congratulations to them both and fingers crossed for September!!

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MARVEL Collaborates with MF DOOM, GZA and Lil' B on Album Artwork

So for some glorious reason Marvel decided to re-imagine iconic Hip-Hop Album covers, and began releasing them in January of this year.

We've already had Nas' "Illimatic", Dre's "The Chronic" and 50's "Get Rich or Die Tryin" to name a few, and now they realeased three more!!

- 'Contest of Champions' AKA GZA's Liquid Swords
- 'Hercules' AKA Lil' B's Black Flame Mixtape
- & 'The Mighty Thor' AKA MF Doom & Madlib's Madvillainy

They plan is to release 50 in total! I've included some but not all of the covers released earlier this year.

I was a little surprised to see MF Doom up there, I heard a rumour once that there was some copyright problems that resulted in him being unable to perform as MF Doom? but maybe they've kissed and made up?

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HBO in talks with Will Smith and Jay-Z for Emmett Till Mini Series

Now this will probably be the only time I promote one of Jay-Z's verntures, I don't have a lot of time for him or his music, but he and Will Smith have apparently teamed up to produce a mini series about Emmett Till for HBO.

Emmett Till was a Chicago born teenager visiting his family in Mississippi, USA, where he was brutally murdered for
allegedly flirting with a 21-year-old white co-owner of a Mississippi grocery store, Carolyn Bryant. A few nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted Emmett. They then took him to a barn, where they tortured him, gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him in the head and disposing of his body in the river.

Bryant and Milam would eventually be acquited of this savage murder. However the trial of Bryant and Milam attracted a vast amount of press attention. Till's murder is noted as a pivotal event motivating the African-American Civil Rights Movement.