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Chaz Davenport hopes the talents of chanteuse Crystal Labelle will save his nightclub in Dark Streets.

Rated R • WHO: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Edson, John Savage, Bill Nunn • THE SCOOP: On the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn, a predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood erupts into chaos as long-simmering bigotry take over.

Actress Ruby Dee and director Spike Lee attend a special 20th anniversary screening of "Do the Right Thing", in New York, on Monday.

Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing,' which celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer, makes its Blu-ray disc debut on June 30.

Do the Right Thing - 20th Anniversary Edition Rated R, 120 minutes Coming Tuesday to DVD.

When most folks think of the blues, odds are it's either Chicago blues or Texas loud and electric.

Guy Davis will perform at Caffe Lena on Friday. If Guy Davis sounded a bit preoccupied during a recent phone interview with the Gazette, it was with good reason.

THE Apollo's 75th birthday celebrated with a $75 million show. From American Idol Fantasia to Bill Cosby with a little sidestep to Zac cheus Denwiddie .

The venue that Smokey Robinson calls "the granddaddy of all theaters" has reached an age befitting that title, and it is celebrating in style.

The lively three-day-long graduation activities at Princeton University concluded with the 262nd Commencement on Tuesday, which saw degrees conferred upon 1,128 undergraduate and 753 graduate students.

Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman called on graduates yesterday to pursue lives of purpose and meaning that include an engagement with the arts.

Lorraine Hansberry, who won the Drama Critics' Award for her first play A Raisin in the Sun, shown in a 1959 photo.

When the Apollo Theater celebrates its 75th anniversary, among the honorees at a gala benefit concert on June 8 will be the entire city of New York.

SOURCE: Billboard Magazine The Apollo Theater will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a benefit tribute concert and an awards ceremony, among other festivities, on Monday, June 8h beginning at 6:30 p.m., to be held at the historic venue.

Have you seen Vanity Fair's list of Hollywood's rarest unions: the longterm actor/actress marriage? I don't need to tell you that most Tinseltown marriages end in divorce.

The Apollo Theater will celebrate its 75th anniversary by inducting music impresario Quincy Jones and R&B artist Patti LaBelle into its Hall of Fame.

Della Reese says her mother, who worked as a maid, was a good friend of God. "She would ask him, 'Do I have enough soap in this water, Lord?' And when she put more in, I thought he had told her no." Reese's story got a big laugh Saturday night at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, where the Touched by an Angel star and two other iconic ...

For the fourth year, the Kravis Center presents its annual African-American Film Festival, sponsored by ArtSmart, a local arts organization.

THE groundbreaking play "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, was critically acclaimed when it premiered in 1959.

THOMASTON : Friends of the Thomaston Public Library are presenting a series of films Friday evenings in February in honor of Black History Month.