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on July 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, updated July 17, 2014 at 4:16 PM
TV One's "NewsOne Now" will devote two episodes to interviews done during Essence Festival 2014. Roland Martin is host. The first episode, airing at 8 a.m. Friday (July 18), will feature segments with Anthony Anderson (star of the upcoming ABC sitcom "black-ish"), Tamela Mann, Michelle Williams and Lionel Richie.
There also will be a sequence on Martin's Essence panel discussion with Dr. Steve Perry, John Hope Bryant and Louisiana State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson.
A second "Essence" episode – featuring sequences with Steve Harvey, Charlie Wilson, Vanessa Bush and others – is scheduled for July 25.