It looks like another biopic is on its way, and this time it’s all about Queens native rapper Roxanne Shanté. The film is currently being filmed in her hometown and will show Shanté’s journey from the 14-year-old rapper to the hip-hop legend. Roxanne Roxanne, is scheduled  to debut in 2017, with co- producer Forest Whitaker and […]

Forest Whitaker will co-produce Roxanne Roxanne, a feature about the 1980s Roxanne hip-hop wars in New York.

Recently I heard the distressing news that in a school in Memphis, 90 girls were pregnant or had become mothers in the last year. Shelby county, where the school is located, is a very poor area with almost 100% of the students qualifying for federal funding for free school lunches. In this school, a student […]