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In the new film, Palmer plays Olivia Hill, daughter of the Divinity Church choir director Vi Rose Hill (Latifah). The problem is, Olivia is the talented lead singer of the choir who yearns to break free of her mother’s traditional ideas about the choir’s direction and her love directed at the town’s bad boy.

The New Year is off to a rockin’ start with 10 all-new episodes of “Unsung” premiering at 10 p.m. TONIGHT on the TV One network. This season includes Vesta, Cleveland's own Bobby Womack and more.

Just days away from the New Year, here are a few things we'd like to put into perspective for those of you who do the resolution thing. Consider what you personally and we as a community could change to make 2012 Our Year! See something we missed? Feel free to add your own More or Less comment...

Oneal Walters writes poems about women's issues.

A number of excellent offerings were shot over in Africa, most notably “Kinyarwanda” (Rwanda) and “Life, Above All” (South Africa). Then there’s “Pariah,” a gritty, dysfunctional family drama ostensibly inspired by  “Precious” (2009), as it is set in the ‘hood in New York City and features a comedienne (Kim Wayans) cast against type as a monstrous, child-abusing mother.