Brown Sista

As previously reported, singer Jill Scott and actress Gabrielle Union, are the newest Brown Sistas to pose for Allure Magazine’s annual “Go Naked” issue. Allure editor Linda Wells says their hugely popular feature is not meant to objectify women, but rather to celebrate women and various shapes of the female body. And it appears many Hollywood women are in agreement as Jill and Gabrielle join a long list of Brown Sistas who have also taken it off for the magazine, including Vanessa Williams, Serena Williams, and Kelly Rowland.
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Blackfilm.com is reporting that Gabrielle Union has joined the cast of the Leonard Chess biopic, Cadillac Records. Union will play Geneva Wade, Muddy Waters’ girlfriend and later wife. Waters will be played by Jeffrey Wright while the lead, Chess himself, will be played by Adrian Brody. The film also features Beyonce Knowles, Mos Def, Columbus Short and Cedric the Entertainer. Chess was the founder of Chess Records, the company responsible for launching the careers of many blues musicians in the 1950’s and 60’s.
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Actress Gabrielle Union is featured on the cover on the March edition of Vegas Magazine. Inside the mag Gabrielle talks about her wild partying days, as well as what led to her divorce from Jacksonville Jaguars running back Chris Howard, and why she believes she is often mistaken for Ashanti, Brandy, and even Beyonce. Read the rest of this entry »

Actress Meagan Good and Idris Elba are among the ensemble cast of Rogue Pictures’ supernatural thriller “Unborn.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film follows a young woman (Odette Yustman) who is tormented by the soul of a boy who died in the Holocaust. Good will play the girl’s best friend, while Elba will play a priest who helps a Rabbi perform exorcisms. The Rabbi will be played by Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino signed on to portray the haunted girl’s mother and Rhys Coiro of HBO’s “Entourage” will play the girl’s college professor. Principal photography began March 5 in Chicago under the film’s writer/director David Goyer. Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing.
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Vivica Fox was one of the few celebrities who skipped the NBA Allstar Festivities held over the weekend. Instead the sista was seen at the Grand opening of Mario Barth’s Starlight Tattoo at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. Vivica too has been sporting a very Rihanna-esque asymmetrical short bob lately- and I must admit it does look good on her.
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“A Raisin In The Sun” is shaping up to be the must see televised event of the season.Airing directly after this year’s Academy Awards Ceremony, ARITS stars Sanaa Lathan, Sean Diddy Combs, Audra McDonald and Phylicia Rashad. The West Cost screening for the film took place last night at the Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles, CA and all the Brown Sistas, a few Brown Brothas too, came out to show their support.
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Sanaa Lathan poses for official “A Raisin In The Sun” portraits at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Singers Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, and Alicia Keys all started off their new year on stage. Alicia performed at NBC’s New Year’s Eve Bash, while Bey performed the final show of her Beyonce Experience tour in Vegas, and Jennifer Hudson performed at the Setai Club in Miami Beach.

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It’s party season and this past weekend saw sista celebs doing it up big from coast to coast. Vegas had Brown Sistas coming out in force to help Jay-Z celebrate the grand opening of his new 40/40 Club. Beyonce was there of course and had little sister Solange in tow. Singer Mary J. Blige, Vanessa Simmons and actresses Tichina Arnold and Paula Patton also made appearances.

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