In The Spotlight: Podcasters Chloe Zora and Chanel Glover of Overqualified & Drunk

Another great spotlight to start the week!

If you're a podcast lover, you may have heard about them...if not get ready! Ranked #5 on Podcasts In Color'a Top 5 LGBTQ Podcasts in 2016 List, Chloe Zora and Chanel Glover, the ladies of the Overqualified & Drunk podcast, are a must listen! 

I'm glad to have the chance to feature them on The Spotlight, especially because I wouldn't have pursued a career in radio if it wasn't for Chloe, one of my first college Resident Advisors.

In The Spotlight: Podcaster Loren "Lo Skeet" Gross

Happy to bring ya'll another great person to spotlight in 2017!

I recently linked up with a fellow BGSU alum, Loren "Lo Skeet" Gross, to speak about his podcast "Inaudible Raucous", which has currently been going on strong for 43 weeks straight! The podcast involves Lo speaking on a variety of topics including pop culture, health, sports, social justice, financial advice, etc. As a student of the radio art form since he was 13, Lo said he got the idea to do a podcast about three years ago when he started to see a shift in the radio industry. After much procrastination, the podcaster started his up last year in 2016. The idea for the name came after speaking with some friends about oxymorons that catch people's attention. From there, he thought of a "clever way to spin cliche terms like “Sounds from the Underground” or “The Quiet Riot." Lo stated, "I went to a thesaurus and picked those two words: Inaudible and Raucous."

In The Spotlight: Radio Host/DJ/Podcaster Alex "A.D." Davis

Happy to bring ya'll another great person to spotlight in 2017! If you or your client is an upcoming artist, designer, etc., and would like to be featured on The Spotlight, please visit our Features/Submissions page for more info.

Today we have CBS Radio’s 98.5 KLUC DJ/radio host Alex "A.D." Davis! 

A.D. currently handles working at KLUC out in Vegas as the night jockey every Monday-Friday from 6p-11p. He also balances co-hosting the Fresh DOPE podcast, writing for music site GroundSounds.com AND operating the brand Elevated Livin’ LLC (Check out our spotlights on Elevated Livin' artists Sav and J. Smith)! We talked mainly about the podcast, some fitness and sneaker talk, and how A.D. balances it all!

ABC Greenlights 'Black-Ish' Spin-Off

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Yara Shahidi could very well be getting her own spin-off! 

ABC has given Black-Ish creator and executive producer Kenya Barris the go ahead to start working on a spin-off headlined by Yara's character Zoey Johnson as she enters a new phase in her life...college! 

NEW MUSIC: "High For Hours" - J. Cole

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Rapper J. Cole, whose album, 4 Your Eyez Only, recently went gold, dropped a new track, "High For Hours," out of nowhere that sounds like it could've fit on the album also!

Meagan Good To Play 'Foxy Brown' For Hulu Series

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Meagan Good is about to give us a fresh new spin on Foxy Brown! 

The actress is set to star in a remake of the blaxploitation classic, whose title was played amazingly by Pam Grier back in the 70s. Hulu is set to bring the popular movie into 2016 with a "modern reimagining" as a TV show while still keeping the focus on the female action hero.

Marvel's 'Luke Cage' Gets Renewed For Second Season on Netflix

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Season two of Marvel series Luke Cage is on its way! 

Netflix and the official Twitter page for the show series Luke Cage tweeted out a video announcing the show's upcoming return. Showing a sign in the window of "Pop's Barbershop", one of the main locations for the show, the video announced that the second season is indeed coming soon!

Watch below!

Chelsea and Raven Return To Disney For That's So Raven Spin-Off

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Raven and Chelsea are back together again!

For all fans of "That's So Raven" like myself, Raven's best friend Chelsea played by Anneliese van der Pol will be joining Raven-Symoné for the recently announced spin-off show, which is set to start production on Disney in early 2017!

The premise of the show is that both friends are recently divorced with kids -- Raven with two kids, Nia and Booker, and Chelsea with son Levin. Levin is described as arrogant and manipulative while one of Raven's kids will be inheriting her gift for seeing into the future. Hopefully, Orlando Brown can clean himself up and get his life on track for a cameo!

Stay tuned to The Spotlight for more info about the show as it's revealed.

In The Spotlight: Actress and Entrepreneur Georgina Opoku

Another great spotlight for y'all! As always, if you are or represent an upcoming artist, designer, dancer, etc., and are interested in being featured on The Spotlight, please visit our Features/Submissions page for more information.

Today, we have actress and entrepreneur Georgina Opoku!

This young woman right here is more of a Renaissance woman in my opinion...she does so much! She's the co-star of the YouTube series Quarter Water Juices, getting her PhD, starting her own business, and, most importantly, she's doing all this while being a mom! We got a chance to touch on all this and more in her interview....check it out below!

MUSIC VIDEO: "10,000 Hours" - R&B Singer Ella Mai

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DJ Mustard and his new talented London-born R&B singer Ella Mai have released the official video for her single "10,000 Hours!" 

The track is featured on the DJ's Cold Summer album, which was released at the end of September. 

NEW MUSIC: "Keep You In Mind" Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller (Gourdon Banks Cover)

Released last night, Chris Brown hooks up with young Pen Griffey Jr., Bryson Tiller on a new track "Keep You In Mind."

The track covers Philly singer Gourdon Banks' song of the same name. Take a listen below!

MUSIC VIDEO: "I Need More" - Mario

Mario leads a revolt-like escape in his latest video for single"I Need More!" 

Look out for his new album, "Paradise Cove" to drop sometime later this year. (P.S. we see you @Miss_5_Thousand!)

Check out the visual below!

In The Spotlight: Web & Graphic Designer Duane Lindsey II

Another day, another spotlight! If you are or represent an upcoming artist, designer, dancer, etc., please visit our Features/Submissions page for more info on how to be featured on The Spotlight! 

Today, we have business owner and graphic designer Duane Lindsey II! 

Duane owns his own production company DLINDZ Productions, which offers web and graphic design, video production, and photography! He got his start back in the Myspace days, loving the celebrity page designs on the social media site, and soon started learning how to do his own custom layouts. Once the designer had the Adobe Photoshop program down and was creating his own layouts, he started designing layouts for other people. Soon after his high school graduation in Akron, OH, Duane moved to Atlanta, GA, where he has resided for the last 9 years. "[I] felt that it was more opportunities to excel here in whatever I decided to do for a living," he said of the move.

Sharon Leal to Portray First Live Action Version of ’Miss Martian' on 'Supergirl'

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For all my DC fans this is MAJOR news! 

Fictional superhero M'gann M'orzz aka Miss Martian is set to appear on The CW's "Supergirl" in this upcoming second season! The beautiful and talented Sharon Leal, who has appeared in numerous movies including Why Did I Get Married, Why Did I Get Married Too, Dreamgirls and the TV show Grimm is set to play the role!

MOVIE TRAILER: 'Star Wars: Rogue One'

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For all you Star Wars fans, the trailer for the next installment in the franchise Star Wars: Rogue One, has officially dropped! 

According to the movie's official website, the project is a standalone film that tells the story of when "a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things."

Rihanna Reportedly to Star In 'Ocean's Eleven' Spinoff 'Ocean's Eight'

Looks like Rihanna is headed back to the big screen!

According to Deadline, the Barbadian princess has signed on to join the likes of Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and rapper/actress Nora Lum aka Awkwafina for an Ocean's Eleven spinoff film, Ocean's Eight!

In The Spotlight: Poet Jonte "Luki" Barrett

Another great spotlight for you guys! As always, if you are or represent an upcoming artist, designer, model, etc., please visit our Features/Submissions page for more information on how to be featured on the blog!

Today on The Spotlight, we have brillianty talented and breathtaking poet Jonte "Luki" Barrett!  Hailing from Washington, D.C. ("It's DC or nothing!" sje confidently said), Jonte started creating poetry back in 2007, and has recently started performing as Luki (pronounced "lucky"). In fact, she recently performed  at the Moonz Conference 2016, an annual conference for fans of Wale to connect, support and build with each other!

In The Spotlight: Hip Hop Artist J. Smith

Time for another spotlight! If you are or represent an upcoming artist, designer, dancer, etc., please visit our Features/Submissions page for more info on how to be featured on The Spotlight! 

Our latest spotlight artist has been one of my favorite up and coming artists for a very long time! His name is J. Smith, hailing from the Euclid/Cleveland area in Ohio. Attending the same high school as Kid Cudi protégé King Chip, who was a few years ahead of him, J. Smith said he got his start from a "fluke situation" when he was asked to be in a rap group by a fellow rapper by the name of Pyro. Smith said he went home, found a microphone, downloaded the Adobe Audition program and hasn't looked back since!

In The Spotlight: Neo-Soul/R&B Artist K. James

Time for another spotlight! If you are or represent an upcoming artist, designer, dancer, etc., please visit our Features/Submissions page for more info on how to be featured on The Spotlight! 

Today, we have neo-soul and R&B artist, K. James, whose music video for track "Koolin' " was recently featured on the site. The artist has always had a great appreciation for good music with a message, containing real experiences. "Music has always been in my blood," K. James said. "Since I was 5 years old, I grew up listening to my mother’s radio full of artists such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Teddy Pendergrass, R. Kelly, and The Temptations." He went on to add, "It has been a dream of mine to express my creativity through song, giving people something to relate to and making a living while doing something I love was all the motivation I needed to pursue this dream of mine."

90S TV Show Favorite 'Hey Arnold!' to Be Made Into New Movie

Nickelodeon has dropped the news that, as a part of the network's 25th Anniversary of original creator-driven animation, there will be a new Hey Arnold! movie, tentatively titled Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie!