purple rain
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Best Streaming Service for your Black Dollar in October
Netflix? Hulu? Apple? HBO? Disney? Here are the ten best streaming services for your Black dollar right now.
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Prince to Be Considered for Congressional Gold Medal
‘With this legislation, we honor his memory and contributions as a composer, performer, and music innovator,’ said Senator Amy Klobuchar.
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A New Book on Prince Includes a Timeline of His Pain Pill Addiction, as Told by Friends and Colleagues
Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince posits that the icon's pill addiction began with an accident while rehearsing for the Purple Rain tour.
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Small Minnesota Town Becomes Home of Life-Sized Prince Statue
Henderson, Minn., is the new home of a life-size bronze statue of the one and only Prince, a fitting memorial considering the tiny town was made famous after appearing in the late musician’s film Purple Rain. Prince fans may recognize Henderson from one of the scenes in Purple Rain where Apollonia Kotero (who portrayed Prince’s…
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And the Skippy Goes To!: The Root's Inaugural The Blackest Awards Winners
What’s up, Black America! Now that the Oscars have come and gone and awards were given to winners and what not and henceforth, it’s time to redirect that energy back into what matters most: celebrating Blackness in all of its Black Excellence Achievement. And that is exactly what we’re doing here with the Skippies. You…
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Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 5 African American Films Added to National Film Registry
The Library of Congress has announced 25 new films to add to its National Film Registry for 2019. Of the 25 films that are “selected because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage,” five of them are created by and/or centered around African Americans. Those black films are Purple Rain,…
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The Beautiful Ones: Before His Tragic Death, Prince Began a Memoir Detailing How He Became…Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson, a man of unmatched mystery, planned to give us a sneak peek into his surreal life. Three months prior to his tragic death in 2016, the then 57-year-old artist was starting his magnum opus, a memoir detailing just how he became the icon fans have come to love and admire. The man…
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Prince’s Estate Only Wants to See the Trump Campaign Refraining From Playing ‘Purple Rain’… Again
Orange Colt 45—President Donald Trump—held a political circle jerk in the form of a rally once again on Thursday evening and, as per usual, suffered a bout of convenient memory loss when he decided to play Prince’s “Purple Rain” as MAGA hype music without the estate’s permission. As such, the estate of the late Purple…
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The Purple One Would Approve: Pantone Finally Gets It Right With 2018’s Color of the Year
Full disclosure: I’m a Minnesota native. Minneapolis, to be exact. I’m also a black woman, and a musician who counts among her first musical memories seeing the Purple Rain tour live at the Humphrey dome in 1984. Suffice to say, last year I didn’t take Prince’s passing well … But while it may feel a…