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Recording artist and Oscar-winner Common hosted the fourth annual “Toast To The Arts: A Celebration of Fearless Art” event, March 2, honoring the Academy Award nominations of Get Out nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Best Actor); Mudbound nominees Mary J. Blige (Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song), director Dee Rees (Best Writing Adapted Screenplay) and producer Charles D. King; as well as legendary filmmaker Charles Burnett.

The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the single-elimination, winner-take-all, open-application tournament launched in 2014, today announced a television deal with ESPN for 2015, which will see the tournament spread nationally and the field expand to 96 teams.