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Queen Latifah Inks First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

| July 20, 2021
Queen Latifah Inks First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

Audible announced their multi-project first-look development deal with Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere’s production company Flavor Unit. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The press release read, “The inaugural project, Streets, Rhymes & Sugar: A Hip-Hop Memoir from entrepreneur and screenwriter Michael Elliot (Brown Sugar, Just Wright, Like Mike), releases August 5, 2021. This short-form Audible Original will chronicle Elliot’s […]

Juneteenth: 19 Essential Tracks

| June 19, 2021
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This year, for the first time in American history, Juneteenth is celebrated as a federal holiday. The tradition, in honor of the abolition of slavery in the United States, however, has long been established as a marker of actual independence for Black Americans–complete with all the fixings of a celebration across the country: togetherness, food, […]

Queen Latifah to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at 2021 BET Awards

| June 16, 2021
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Queen Latifah is being recognized for paving the way for female MCs.  It was announced in a press release Monday that Queen Latifah is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to Black music and pop culture at the 2021 BET Awards.  Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Queen Latifah has been making […]

Happy Birthday To Hip Hop Matriarch Queen Latifah!

| March 18, 2021
Queen Latifah is Set to Host 'Black Girls Rock!'

On this date 51 years ago, Hip-Hop’s first matriarch was born in Newark, New Jersey. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Born Dana Owens, Queen Latifah grew from an affluent and promising basketball player from Irvington, New Jersey into one of the most iconic figures in the world’s most transformative sub-culture known as Hip Hop. Whether […]

[WATCH] Trailer for Queen Latifah as ‘The Equalizer’ is Now Available

| January 11, 2021
Trailer for Queen Latifah as 'The Equalizer' is Now Available

Set for a post-Super Bowl premiere, Queen Latifah’s version of The Equalizer has received its first trailer. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The series is a remake of the 1980s original, which sprung back into today’s culture when Denzel Washington took on the role of Robert McCall in two editions of the film. Now, Latifah […]

Queen Latifah’s ‘Equalizer’ Reboot to Premiere After Super Bowl

| December 4, 2020
Queen Latifah Inks First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

Queen Latifah’s upcoming drama series reboot, The Equalizer, is premiering right after the Super Bowl. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Following its premiere, it will air on Sundays regularly beginning on February 14th, 2021. You might remember Denzel Washington portrayed the mysterious former special-ops agent using his special skill set to help those in need. But […]

‘The Equalizer’ Series Starring Queen Latifah Officially Ordered by CBS

| May 11, 2020
Queen Latifah Inks First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

For fans of Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer films, Queen Latifah is stepping into a reboot of the role for television. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information As a bit of back story, the original The Equalizer was Edward Woodward in a television series on CBS that ran from 1985-1989, Shadow and Act reports. The series transitioned […]

Queen Latifah to Receive W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard

| October 14, 2019
Queen Latifah Inks First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

Harvard University will honor Queen Latifah for her contributions to black history and culture. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Billboard reports Latifah will be awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal and six other recipients at a ceremony on October 22. Additional honorees named by the Cambridge, Mass., school’s Hutchins Center for African and African American […]

Queen Latifah Set to Star as Ursula in ABC’s ‘The Little Mermaid’

| August 8, 2019
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So far, 2019 has been one of the hottest years on record in many parts of the world, so it’s fitting that mermaids (specifically Little Mermaid remakes) are all the rage this summer. (After all, who wouldn’t want to live under the sea right about now?) Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information This week, ABC unveiled […]

Angie Martinez to Host ‘Untold Stories of Hip-Hop’

| July 26, 2019
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Angie Martinez aka “The Voice of New York” will be hosting a new show titled Untold Stories Of Hip Hop will premiere this fall on the WE tv network. According to reports, Martinez is set to sit down with Cardi B, Snoop Dogg, Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, Nelly, A$AP Rocky, DJ Khaled, Wyclef Jean, Ja […]

Black Thought and Questlove Producing ‘Hip-Hop: Songs That Shook America’ On AMC

| July 23, 2019
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Legendary lyricists Black Thought and super-producer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots are executive producers of a six-part docuseries entitled Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America on AMC. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information On each episode of this new series put emphasis on a trailblazing song that was critical to the transformation of American music […]

Lifetime to Develop Salt-N-Pepa Scripted Miniseries

| March 28, 2019
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Salt-N-Pepa are one of the most acclaimed and successful acts in the history of Hip-Hop. Since their debut in 1985, they have been making their voices heard as leading ladies in the male-dominated genre of rap music. With classic songs like “Push It,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Express Yourself,” “Shoop,” and “Whatta Man,” and many […]

Happy 49th Birthday Queen Latifah!

| March 18, 2019
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On this date 49 years ago, Hip-Hop’s first matriarch was born in Newark, New Jersey. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Born Dana Owens, Queen Latifah grew from an affluent and promising basketball player from Irvington, New Jersey into one of the most iconic figures in the world’s most transformative sub-culture known as Hip Hop. Whether […]

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