​The Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition (BLACC) powered by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, announced today the partnership with iN-Hale Entertainment and All Tea No, Shade Productions in support of the National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7, 2021 with the theme of “Stigma Gotta Go.”
​“Stigma and shame are 2 parallel social ills that continue to fester in communities of color all across this country and play a role in the increasing number of new HIV diagnosis among Black Americans” stated Imara Canady, Chair, Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition (BLACC). “It is our hope that through sharing this powerful production that we continue the critical work that BLACC has been doing for close to a decade in breaking down the mis-conceptions, lack of awareness and ignorance around a myriad of issues that feed into stigma, and further divide us as a community. We truly build community by each of us showing up fully as who we are, and each of us respecting the diversity that exists within our community.” According to the Centers for Disease Controls (CDC), African Americans make up close to 14% of the U.S. population, but close to 50% of new HIV diagnosis.
 
The partnership presents the filmed dramatic reading and special virtual event on Monday, February 8 AT 5:00PM PST / 8:00PM EST of George Matthew Johnson’s Amazon Best-Book of the Year 2020 and critically-acclaimed novel, All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, recently optioned by Gabrielle Union and Sony TV for television. The short film, which is directed, adapted and produced by Nathan Hale Williams is a filmed dramatic reading of three chapters of the book performed by Jenifer Lewis (“Black-ish”), Dyllón Burnside (“Pose”), Bernard David Jones (“The Mayor”) and Thomas Hobson (“Sherman’s Showcase”). The three-part virtual event will feature live performances, a virtual art installation curated by African American contemporary art dealer/curator, Rodney LoveJones and music featuring Black artists. The evening will conclude with a roundtable discussion moderated by Tai Beauchamp with the goal of moving out the fear that creates stigma and replace it with love through the event while also having a sobering discussion that needs to be had.  
 
For more information on the virtual event, please CLICK HERE .

​All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto is the bestselling and award-winning debut book by George Matthew Johnson - an award winning non-binary writer, author and activist living in New York City. Johnson's memoir-manifesto, explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, “Nanny” (played by Lewis), to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing appeals directly to young adults. The book was selected as one of 2020’s best by Kirkus, Amazon and Goodreads. Johnson identified as he/him when the book was written.  

During a teleconference for Wendy Williams: The Movie, Actress Ciera Payton who plays Wendy Williams in the Lifetime Original movie, discusses her first call with Wendy.

​Talk show host Wendy Williams executive produces the biopic on her life, revealing the highs and lows she has experienced throughout the years. Wendy has made herself the go-to source for great celebrity dish on her hit talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, but recently the spotlight has turned towards her. The authorized project provides a revealing look at Wendy’s journey, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show. Despite all the naysayers and obstacles Wendy encountered throughout her life, her strength and determination have allowed her to thrive. Ciera Payton takes on the lead role while Morocco Omari stars as Wendy’s ex-husband Kevin Hunter. Produced by Front Street for Lifetime and executive produced by Wendy Williams, Will Packer and Sheila Ducksworth. 

Did you know that Wendy Williams: The Movie airs on Jan 30th.  The authorized project provides a revealing look at Wendy's journey from urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show.
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When We Speak TV ​had the please of attending a press conference with the star actors of the film, Ciera Payton and Morocco Omari...

Mark your calendars for Saturday, Jan 30th at 8PM EST 
and tune in to Lifetime for
Wendy Williams: The Movie 
...AND THAT'S NOT ALL!!!!
Immediately the film, check out Wendy Williams: What A Mess documentary. Wendy speaks directly to the camera and discusses everything...from her divorce to becoming  a Hot Topic. 
​You don't want to miss it! 

​The season kicks off with Ms. Juicy, Minnie, the Tiny Twinz Amanda & Andrea, Abira and the return of Monie, as the ladies all come back together in Atlanta to pursue their dreams in the city's vibrant hip hop scene. Once again, the ladies bring the fun, the drama, the competition and the love as together they face health issues, careers changes, relationship ups and downs and life's hardest trials and tribulations -- all while still dealing with the complexities of living in an average size world. 

​With all the great joys of life that the Little Women: Atlanta ladies experience, this season they also join together to endure great sorrow when they lose one of their own, their beloved friend Minnie.

​Little Women: Atlanta returns with a two-hour block of fan binging programing beginning with the Little Women: Atlanta Kickoff Special on January 22nd at 9pm ET/PT.
Starting on January 29th the series will premiere 90-minute supersized episodes at 9pm ET/PT every Friday night, followed by the all-new 30 minute after show, Little Women: Atlanta Unfiltered, hosted by Loni Love (The Real).  

​​The Lifetime original, Salt N Pepa, stars GG Townson as Cheryl “Salt” James, Laila Odom as Sandra “Pepa” Denton.

Salt-N-Pepa made a huge impact as one of the first all-female rap groups, changing the look of hip hop and being unafraid to talk about sex and share their thoughts on men. The movie follows the group as they become the first female rap act to go platinum and experience ground-breaking success with multiple awards, including a Grammy award - paving the way for all female rappers to follow.

Each episode of ATL Homicide follows the thirty-year Atlanta PD veterans (Vince Velazquez and David Quinn) as they reveal how they solved tragic crimes committed in the Atlanta metro area while working side by side as partners in the homicide division. 

The hour-long show will dive deep into Quinn and Velazquez’s personal experiences as detectives as they narrate step-by-step some of their most bone-chilling cases. The dramatic stories, based on true events have been re-created through flashbacks and showcase actors, Angelo Diaz as David Quinn and Christopher Diaz as Vince Velazquez. 

The retelling of these investigations take the viewer on an adventure of mystery and intrigue. In its third season ATL HOMICIDE brings all new stories of real and raw experiences as the detectives seek to deliver justice on behalf of the victims. 
 
In the season premiere episode, Quinn and Vince investigate the tragic murder of a young father gunned down at a gas station. The detectives narrow in on a local drug dealer as the suspect, but as they near the finish line, they find that their closest ally may hold the darkest secrets in this complicated investigation. Throughout the season, ATL HOMICIDE brings all-new stories of real and raw experiences as the detectives seek to deliver justice on behalf of the victims. 

For more information on ATL HOMICIDE,
visit TV One's YouTube Channel and check out exclusive, behind-the-scenes content on www.tvone.tv.
TV One viewers can also join the conversation by connecting via social media on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (@tvonetv) using the hashtags #ATLHOMICIDE and #REPRESENT.
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It was disturbing for When We Speak TV, to realize that the teen in the Soho Karen video is the son of our dear friend, musician Kat Rodriguez, and jazz trumpeter, Keyon Harrold.

Yep! You heard correctly......Lifetime has released the official trailer to Wendy Williams' Documentary and What A Mess it is!!!!

In this feature length documentary, Wendy Williams, the self-anointed Queen of all Media, sheds her private persona and speaks directly to the camera, discussing every inch of joy and humiliation she has experienced since childhood. From her apartment in Manhattan, we’re with Wendy during the course of her divorce, as she deals with being a ‘Hot Topic’ and finds a way to right her ship again. It’s a raw, no holds barred look with never-before heard truths about Wendy’s notorious feuds with celebrities, her shocking divorce, her childhood and the private darkness she has endured. This is the story of a self-made woman who finds herself at the start of a new life, uncertain of the future, but ready to reclaim her crown. 

​The documentary is produced by eOne and Creature Films for Lifetime. Executive producers include Wendy Williams, Tara Long, Mark Ford, Kevin Lopez, Sarah Girgis and Joie Jacoby. Brie Miranda Bryant and Gena McCarthy serve as executive producers for Lifetime.

BET pays tribute to those that continue to stand up, speak out, create, and lead the culture through sports, politics, music, film, TV, social media, business, advocacy, and activism....and they call it The BET 100 of 2020.

Some of the top innovators on the list include:

Click Below To View Each List:

Jermel Howard is a passionate major network Actor, Author, and writer. His guest-star/co-star appearances have been on award-winning Television shows and films to include:

• Law & Order
• NYC 22
• Golden Boy
• Major Crimes
• Netflix hit series Orange Is The New Black
• Person of Interest
• Marvel's Luke Cage
• Starz Power Season 4
• Trap Queen
• All Eyez On Me
• Roxanne, Roxanne
• The First Purge
• Lifetime's Salt N Pepa biopic

Singer/Actor Terrell Carter is hitting us with a triple announcement!!!!
First, he announced the release of Kiss Me For Christmas on BET+, then he hit us up with the news that he is in the UMC Original series A House Divided: Season 3, and now he has new single that will be available on December 28th called HERO

Not only was Terrell Carter in the hit show, Empire and the Christmas movie, Kiss Me For Christmas, but Terrell is also on A House Divided Season 3.