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What's The 411 Episode 50! News About Ava Duvernay; Taraji P. Henson; Denzel Washington; Michael Strahan and More

Milestone Episode: News about: Brandy; Jan Gaye's tell-all book about her life with Marvin Gaye; Cosmetic Trends; On The Carpet and more! 

Yay, we are celebrating a milestone, EPISODE 50!!!!

In this 50th episode of What's The 411, expert fashion stylist, consultant, and soon-to-be author, Courtney Rashon of Courtney Rashon Industries sits in with What's The 411 host, Glenn Gilliam, as guest host for Kizzy Cox.

This episode takes a look at an update on Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter, Bobbi Kristina; conversations around Toya Graham, the mother who beat her son for throwing rocks at police; cosmetic trends for 2015 with a focus on eyes and lips; and the late great R&B singer Marvin Gaye's ex-wife, Jan Gaye, has a new tell-all book out, After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye. In our ever popular segment, On the Carpet, Glenn Gilliam calls on the carpet mainstream media and the Baltimore Police Union for trying to besmirch the character of state attorney general Marilyn Mosby.

Proud moment for award-winning film director, Ava DuVernay, Mattel is creating a doll of DuVernay's likeness to be part of its Sheroes Collection; and Gregory Pardlo wins a Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his book, DIGEST.

We also send prayers to the people of Nepal, blues legend B.B. King who is in hospice care, and to Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who has hospitalized again with chest pains. In memoriam, we send our condolences to the family, friends, and fans of pioneering professional golfer Calvin Peete, and R&B crooner Ben E. King.

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On The Carpet: Atlanta Televangelist, Creflo A. Dollar

Rita Obi calls Creflo A. Dollar on the Carpet

Creflo A. Dollar, Jr., founder of World Changers Church International, has found himself under fire for using a crowd-funding program to raise $65 million to purchase a new private airplane.

A Gulfstream G650 to be exact; a plane that billionaires are on a waiting list to possess.

There are so many social and economic issues that Dollar could resolve with $65,000,000. However, instead, he chose to issue a charge to his flock that said in part:

We are asking members, partners and supporters of this ministry to assist in the undertaking of an initiative called Project G650. The mission of Project G650 is to acquire a Gulfstream G650 airplane so that Pastors Creflo and Taffi and World Changers Church International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of grace. We are believing for 200,000 people to give contributions of 300 US dollars or more to turn this dream into a reality—and allow us to retire the aircraft that served us well for many years.

Dollar pulled his crowd-funding page after public backlash.

 

 

On The Carpet: Former Univision Host Rodner Figueroa

Kizzy Cox Calls Rodner Figueroa On the Carpet for his Racially Derogatory Comments About First Lady Michelle Obama

What's The 411TV host, Kizzy Cox, takes former Univision host, Rodner Figueroa, to task, as she calls him on the carpet for his distasteful and racially disparaging comments targeted at First Lady Michelle Obama.

Although Ms. Cox believes Univision did the right thing in firing Figueroa, she doesn't let Univision off the hook.

"They (Univision) have a whole history of racism," said Kizzy Cox. "This isn't the first time that they have been embroiled in this type of controversy. For example, when the World Cup was being played in South Africa, the host covering the event, wore Afro wigs and carried small spears."

"Anybody who watches Univision, I've seen it, it's not the most the diverse network. Everybody kind of looks, same color, which is white. And, that is just not the Latino world. (The) Latino world is a huge melting pot, black people, white people, Indian people, mixed people, all types of people. It's a beautiful multiracial melting pot. So to just have it be one type of thing, and showing one type of race, as representative of all races is really reprehensible. So it is time to clean up shop." Cox continued in part.

Julie Dash Speaks to Standing Room Crowd at MIST Harlem

 

VIDEO: Luvon Roberson says Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust Still Resonates with Audiences Nearly 25 Years Later

What's The 411TV's Book Editor, Luvon Roberson, chatted with What's The 411's host, Kizzy Cox, and correspondent, Rita Obi, about a Women's History Month event featuring award-winning screenwriter/director, Julie Dash, and a screening of her groundbreaking film, Daughters of the Dust. The event was held at MIST Harlem, which included dinner and cocktails at Madiba Harlem.

Following the screening of Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash spoke with New School Media Studies professor, Michelle Materre, about the history of the film.

In 1992, with Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash was the first African-American woman to have a general theatrical release of a full length feature film in the United States. An accomplished author, Dash wrote, along with Toni Cade Bambara and bell hooks, Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film (1992). The book includes the screenplay. Dash also wrote Daughters of the Dust: A Novel (1997), a sequel set 20 years after the passage explored in the film.

In 2004, Daughters of the Dust was included in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

"You can get the book that Julie Dash wrote.....," Luvon Roberson said on the set of What's The 411. "Also, still playing on Netflix, so check out the movie, Daughters of the Dust, ..., just as powerful as it was 20-something years ago; see it, make sure to read it."

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