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Moesha (season 2)
The following is a list of episodes for the American television sitcom ''Moesha''. The series ran on UPN from January 23, 1996, to May 14, 2001, with a total of 127 episodes produced, spanning six seasons. The pilot episode was filmed in late April 1995, while filming for the first season began in October 1995. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1996) Season 2 (1996–97) * Fredro Starr joins the cast. * Shar Jackson joins the main cast. Season 3 (1997–98) Season 4 (1998–99) * Fredro Starr is no longer part of the main cast. Although he makes a guest appearance in one episode. * Jon Huertas joined the season in a recurring role. * This is Countess Vaughn's last season of the show. * The opening theme song received a complete overhaul which remained for the rest of the series’ run. Season 5 (1999–2000) * Ray J. Norwood, who is also Brandy's brother, joins the cast as a series regular. * Countess Vaughn is no longer part of the main cast. * This is Yvette Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitcom
A sitcom (short for situation comedy or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy produced for radio and television, that centers on a recurring cast of character (arts), characters as they navigate humorous situations within a consistent setting, such as a home, workplace, or community. Unlike sketch comedy, which features different characters and settings in each Sketch comedy, skit, sitcoms typically maintain plot continuity across episodes. This continuity allows for the development of storylines and characters over time, fostering audience engagement and investment in the characters' lives and relationships. History The structure and concept of a sitcom have roots in earlier forms of comedic theater, such as farces and comedy of manners. These forms relied on running gags to generate humor, but the term ''sitcom'' emerged as radio and TV adapted these principles into a new medium. The word was not commonly used until the 1950s. Early television sitcoms were often filme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredro Starr
Fred Lee Scruggs Jr. (born April 18, 1971), better known by his stage name Fredro Starr, is an American rapper and actor best known as a member of the hardcore rap group Onyx. Fredro Starr was discovered by the late hip hop star Jam Master Jay of Run-D.M.C. who signed Onyx on his label JMJ Records. Onyx went on to release three top selling albums before Fredro began his solo career. As a part of Onyx, Fredro Starr was nominated as "Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop New Artist" on American Music Awards of 1994 and won "Best Rap Album" on 1994 Soul Train Music Awards. Fredro Starr has starred in more than 55 films and television shows. He made his acting debut in the HBO drama '' Strapped''. His film credits include Spike Lee's '' Clockers'', '' Sunset Park'', '' Ride'', '' Light It Up'', '' Save the Last Dance'' and ''Torque''. He also performed the '' Save the Last Dances theme song, "Shining Through", with Jill Scott on the multi-platinum soundtrack. Starr made his television debut in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after '' The New Negro'', a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeastern United States and the Midwestern United States affected by a renewed militancy in the general struggle for civil rights, combined with the Great Migration of African-American workers fleeing the racist conditions of the Jim Crow Deep South, as Harlem was the final destination of the largest number of those who migrated north. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood, many francophone black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris, France, were also influenced by the movement. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United States, the paper's readership has declined since 2010. It has also been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erma Elzy-Jones
Erma Elzy, formerly Erma Elzy-Jones is an American television and theatre director. Career Elzy (formerly Elzy-Jones) was born in Los Angeles, California. She began her career in television, working as Production Associate/Script Supervisor on the television series '' Double Trouble'', ''227'', '' ALF'' and ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air''. She would go to become an Associate Director and later make her official directorial debut directing an episode of ''Moesha''. Her other television credits are '' Sister, Sister'', ''The Wayans Bros.'', ''The Parkers'', '' Girlfriends'' and ''That's So Raven''. During much of the 2000s she focused more on directing short films and stage productions. In 2001, she directed the short film ''Room 302'' starring Kristin Bauer. Other film credits include ''Man Made'' (2002) and ''Silent Crisis: Diabetes Among Us'', a television documentary which was hosted and narrated by Debbie Allen. Her theatre credits are ''The Great Nebula In Orion'' (2002), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
112 (band)
112 (pronounced "one-twelve") is an American R&B group from Atlanta, Georgia. Discovered by record production duo Tim & Bob, the group signed with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records, an imprint of Arista Records to release their eponymous debut studio album (1996). The following year, they guest performed alongside labelmate Faith Evans on Puff Daddy's 1997 single " I'll Be Missing You," which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group and became the first hip hop song to debut atop the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The group then released their second and third albums '' Room 112'' (1998) and '' Part III'' (2001); the latter peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200. The group's fourth album, '' Hot & Wet'' (2003) served as their final release with Bad Boy until signing with Def Soul to release their fifth album '' Pleasure & Pain'' (2005), which saw continued commercial success. The albums spawned the ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 20 singles including their debut, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Wilson (jazz Singer)
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, Rhythm and Blues, R&B, pop music, pop, and soul music, soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Early life Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry worker, and Lillian Ryan. Wilson attended Burnside Heights Elementary School and developed her singing skills by pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Lyte
Lana Michele Moorer (born October 11, 1970), better known by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper. Considered one of the pioneers of female rap, MC Lyte first gained fame in the late 1980s, becoming the first female rapper to release a full solo album with 1988's critically acclaimed ''Lyte as a Rock.'' The album spawned the singles "10% Dis" and "Paper Thin (MC Lyte song), Paper Thin". In 1989, she joined the Supergroup (music), supergroup Stop the Violence, Stop the Violence Movement, and appeared on the single "Self Destruction (song), Self Destruction", which was the inaugural number-one single on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles, ''Billboard'' Hot Rap Singles chart. That same year, she released her second album ''Eyes on This'', which became one of the first albums by a female solo rapper to chart on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. That album included the single "Cha Cha Cha (MC Lyte song), Cha Cha Cha". In 1991, MC Lyte released the hit single "Poor Georgie", wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xscape (group)
Xscape ( or ) (also known as Xscap3) is an American girl group from Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, formed in 1990 by Kandi Burruss, Tamera Coggins, Tameka Cottle, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, LaTocha Scott, and Tamika Scott. The following year, Coggins left the group and Xscape became a quartet. They were discovered by Jermaine Dupri who signed the group to his So So Def Recordings, So So Def label. The group released their debut album ''Hummin' Comin' at 'Cha'' in 1993, which spawned two top-ten ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hits, "Just Kickin' It" and "Understanding (song), Understanding".Xscape Billboard Chart History Billboard. Retrieved on May 24, 2024 The album sold over one million copies in the United States, earning a platinum-certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul For Real
Soul for Real (also known as Soul 4 Real and Soul IV Real) is an American Contemporary R&B, R&B group from Wyandanch, New York, currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are made up of brothers Christopher Sherman Dalyrimple a.k.a. Choc, Andre "Dre" Lamont Dalyrimple a.k.a. KD now, Brian "Bri" Augustus Dalyrimple, and Jason "Jase" Oliver Dalyrimple a.k.a. Jase4Real. The group was best known in the mid-1990s for their gold-certified hit songs "Candy Rain (song), Candy Rain" and "Every Little Thing I Do" and minor R&B hit "If You Want It" from their platinum-selling debut album ''Candy Rain (album), Candy Rain''. Career Formed in 1992, Soul for Real signed with Uptown Records and released their debut album ''Candy Rain (album), Candy Rain'' on March 28, 1995. Produced by Heavy D, ''Candy Rains first single was the album's Candy Rain (song), title track. The song hit No. 1 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montell Jordan
Montell Du'Sean Jordan (born December 3, 1968) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. Best known for his 1995 single " This Is How We Do It", and " Get It On Tonite", Jordan was the primary male solo artist on Def Jam's Def Soul imprint until leaving the label in 2003. He is also known for his 1998 hit single " Let's Ride" featuring Master P and Silkk the Shocker. In 2010, Jordan became the worship leader at Victory World Church in Norcross, Georgia. Early life and education Montell Jordan was born in South Central Los Angeles to Elijah and Delois Jordan. Born into a Baptist family, Jordan attended his local church frequently as a child, where his mother and father worked as deacons. Growing up, Jordan played piano for his church as a musician. In the mid-1980s, he attended Junipero Serra High School in Gardena, California, as well as Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in communications. He became a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
