In CNN’s latest edition of the Black in America series, Soledad O’Brien follows the life and entrepreneurial journey of 8 African-American business men and women working hard at launching their own start-up company in the predominately, young, Caucasian world of Silicon Valley.
They all live in one residence while attending a new media boot camp program, NewMe Accelerator. The programs aims to work hard at diversifying the web and technological land.. In addition, the participants learn about the stressful realities of pitching their ideas in 6 minutes to elite investors. Check out the trailer after the jump. Continue
Universal has set Malcolm D. Lee to write, direct and produce Best Man 2, a sequel to the 1999 film. Lee wrote and directed the original, a comedy in which a writer (Taye Diggs) is preparing to be the best man for his football player buddy (Morris Chestnut), but the timing is bad because the writer’s autobiographical novel is about to pop and it describes how the best man bedded the bride. Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Nia Long and Sanaa Lathan also starred. The original grossed $35 million. [
