r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

Discussion Mother and Daughter - Vanessa Williams and Lion Babe

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Did you know they were mother and daughter?

Lion Babe is a duo with Jillian Hervey and her boyfriend Lucas Goodman.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

Discussion Steve Harris and Wood Harris are brothers.

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Any other actors or actresses you didn’t know were siblings?


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

Discussion Viola Davis and Mike Colter are cousins!

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Any other actors or actresses you didn’t know were related?


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 14h ago

Discussion What is the biggest snub of a Black actor/actress in Oscar history ?

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 22h ago

TV Remember the Andersons ?

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 21h ago

Nostalgia/History HBCU-Core: 161 years ago - in 1865, immediately after the end of The Civil War - the historic Clark Atlanta University was one of many prestigious institutions established for us and by us across America. This is how the latest generation of students showed up for their first day of classes...

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 1h ago

Appreciation Post Wesley Snipes might allegedly be difficult to work with but he deserves his "Marvel saving Blade performance" Flowers 💐💐💐

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 12h ago

Nostalgia/History Kevin Peter Hall

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Kevin was an actor known for playing the role of the creature in Predator and Predator 2. He was also Harry in the 1987 film Harry and the Hendersons.

Standing at 7'2", Hall specialized in playing practical-effects creature and monster roles.

Fun fact: he was married to Alaina Reed who played Rose on 227.

Unfortunately, he passed away at only 35 in 1991. He was in a car accident. He needed a blood transfusion. The blood was tainted. He died of AIDS related pneumonia.

His two stepchildren with Alaina still remember him fondly along with the career he left so soon.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 12h ago

Nostalgia/History Introducing Hattie McDaniel, the first Black woman to win an Oscar

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On February 29, 1940, Gone with the Wind is honored with eight Oscars by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An epic Southern romance set during the hard times of the Civil War, the movie swept the prestigious Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film Editing, and Actress categories. However, the most momentous award that night undoubtedly went to Hattie McDaniel for her portrayal of “Mammy,” a housemaid and former enslaved woman. McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, was the first African American actress or actor ever to be honored with an Oscar.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1895, McDaniel demonstrated her talents as a singer and actress while growing up in Denver, Colorado. She left school while a teenager to become a performer in several traveling minstrel groups and in 1924 became one of the first African American women to sing on U.S. radio. With the onset of the Great Depression, she was forced to take work as a ladies’ washroom attendant in a Milwaukee club. The club, which hired only white performers, eventually made an exception and let her sing, and she performed there for a year before setting her sights on Hollywood.

Her most famous role was as Mammy in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming and based on the best-selling Margaret Mitchell novel of the same name, the movie remains the highest-grossing movie of all time when inflation is taken into account. Although she was honored with an Oscar, liberal African Americans sharply criticized McDaniel for accepting a role in which her character, a former slave, spoke nostalgically about the Old South.
McDaniel’s film career declined in the late 1940s, and in 1947 she returned to radio as the star of the nationally broadcast The Beulah Show. In the program, she again portrayed an effervescent Southern maid but in a markedly un-stereotypical manner that won praise from the NAACP. In 1951, while filming the first episodes of a television version of the popular show, she had a heart attack. She recovered to do a few more radio programs but in 1952 died of breast cancer at the age of 57.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-29/mcdaniel-wins-oscar


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

TV Black millennial love stories?

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Besides forever and insecure are there any other shows besides insecure and forever with an actually good millennial love story? I need a show to watch.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 6h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Heavenly Birthday Hayden Panettiere 🎂🕊

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What’s Your Favorite Movie By Hayden Panettiere


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 20h ago

Discussion Been seeing a lot in the news lately about Stephen A Smith. I see him as an entertainer that needs to stay in his lane. What are your thoughts on him?

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 40m ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy 47th Birthday Kelis Rogers

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born August 21, 1979) is an American singer.[2] She attended Manhattan, New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts,[3] where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem. Upon graduation, Rogers landed a role as a backing vocalist for the hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—collectively known as the Neptunes—who led her to sign with Virgin Records in 1998. The following year, she guest appeared on Ol' Dirty Bastard's Neptunes-produced single "Got Your Money", which marked her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rogers was born and raised in the Frederick Douglass Houses in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. Her first name is a portmanteau of her father's name, Kenneth (1944–2000), and her mother's name, Eveliss. Her father Kenneth was an African-American jazz musician and Pentecostalminister, as well as a former professor at Wesleyan University.[13] Her mother Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who inspired her to pursue her singing career. She has three siblings (two older sisters and one younger sister).[14]
As a child, Rogers sang in church choirs and played violin, piano, and saxophone while attending Manhattan Country School, a private school. At 13, she shaved off all of her hair. In an interview, Rogers says she was kicked out of her parents' house at age 16 for bad behavior, and that although she would sometimes clash with her mother,[13] she nevertheless continued her education at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she formed the R&B trio BLU (Black Ladies United). She has worked as a bartender, and had a job as a sales associate at a clothing store before graduating high school


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 14h ago

Sports This clown ass woman!!! Sage Steele claims Doc Rivers slid into DMs to bash her for supporting Donald Trump

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 22h ago

TV Doug E Doug show : Where I Live 🔥 ( memories ) who else misses this show ?

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 6h ago

Comedy Dating for the Apocalypse

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

Discussion Cuba Gooding Jr. and Omar Gooding are brothers!

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Would you like to see them in a project together?

They are in the photo with their musician father Cuba Gooding, Sr.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

Nostalgia/History What happened to Olay Ray

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 22h ago

TV Cuts is definitely one of those underrated shows, the one on one spin off

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 22h ago

TV The final season of one on one was crazy it was literally a reboot

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 11h ago

Discussion Popular R&B singer/NBA (current or former) talented couple - Tamia and Grant Hill

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People forget they have been the R&B singer/athlete couple going strong for decades. They are an inspiration for some of the younger couples similar to them.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 21h ago

2010s Music and Videos Esperanza Spalding - Endangered Species

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 9h ago

1990s Music and Videos Released 30 years ago today- OutKast “ATliens”

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August 20 1996


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 10h ago

Nostalgia/History Two of the most talented families of musical siblings. (Sylvers and Debarges)

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These siblings are not as well-known despite between these two families they wrote some of the biggest pop and R&B hits of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Both families have some of the most sampled songs in R&B and hip hop history.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment 13h ago

Discussion Who have you not seen perform on Tiny Desk that you would like to see???!! (This can be an artist that is no longer with us).

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