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Turn back the clock to 2010, and the hottest ticket on Broadway is a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play Fences, a poignant and daring meditation on race relations in America with a focus on the hardships of the black experience. It has all the necessary qualifications for a bona fide Broadway smash: a handsome pedigree of awards and acclaim (the production took the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2010), urgent social significance, and some Hollywood talent slumming it on the boards in between film projects. Denzel Washington and Viola Davis starred as the married couple at the heart of Fences, winning raves and a Tony apiece, and created a rare sensation that dazzled audiences for thirteen weeks and then vanished.

Gladiators, Shonda Rhimes is proving that she is the most powerful woman in television! This sista is on the move and you better jump on board or get run over. This fall she will teach us 'How To Get Away With Murder!'

Chadwick Boseman stars in the James Brown biopic 'Get on Up,' and now there's a trailer for the movie about the Godfather of Soul's rise to fame and fortune. Will this follow director Tate Taylor's 'The Help' in being both a late summer hit and an Oscar favorite? It's possible.

Some big news in Hollywood in the world of R&B and film! Several our our favorite stars will receive a Star in 2013 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! This is a huge honor for The Help's Viola Davis, R&B singers Usher and Jennifer Hudson, and posthumously, R&B legend Luther Vandross!