To commemorate World AIDS Day, SHOWTIME will premiere “KEEP A CHILD ALIVE WITH ALICIA KEYS,” a powerful documentary that bears witness to the AIDS pandemic in South Africa, on Thursday, December 1st at 9:00 PM (ET/PT). The film follows five Americans (Talaina Brown, Kristen Dyer, Rachel Hathaway, Aaron McCoy, and Sonya Soni) who won the chance to travel with music superstar and AIDS advocate Alicia Keys, to Keep a Child Alive’s funded sites in South Africa, during the exhilarating atmosphere of the first World Cup on African soil. Through their eyes, with Keys as their guide, the film chronicles the incredible beauty of the people they encounter and the sorrow they witness as they meet the faces of the statistics; the 5.7 million people currently living with HIV and the 15 million AIDS orphans, in Africa alone.

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Alicia Keys is teaming up with Western Union to help impact lives. The Grammy-winning songstress surprised students at her alma mater, the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, while launching the “World of Betters” initiative on Tuesday (Nov. 1). As part of the program, users can submit an entry describing how they would use $1,000 to make the world a better place.

“As the co-founder of Keep a Child Alive, I constantly see that there are so many ways the world can be made a better place,” stated the “Superwoman.” “That’s why I’m so excited to work on the ‘World of Betters’ initiative and I know for a fact that there are so many people out there with amazing ideas that can show how even a small change can make a big impact.”

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Alicia Keys is ready to take on Broadway. The Grammy-winning songstress promoted Stick Fly, the play she produced, at a photo call at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City’s Times Square today. Alicia posed with the playwright Lydia R. Diamond, director Kenny Leon, and the cast which includes actors Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Mekhi Phifer.

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Alicia Keys followed Coldplay, and the new mom looked and sounded gorgeous! Alicia Keys offered a teaser of her new album during her set at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Friday night. The Grammy-winning songbird, dressed head to toe in black, debuted the uplifting piano-driven number “A Place of My Own” before the sold-out crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. (Video After The Break)

She also played “Empire State of Mind Part II” at the piano, which had the crowd hopeful that Jay-Z would join her. But Alicia ended her set with no Hov cameo, only to return to perform “Empire State of Mind” with him. New York, meet Las Vegas!

Jay-Z closed the show with what could easily be called ‘The Best of Jay-Z’ – and the crowd was on it’s feet for the entire set. He brought down the house with an incredible high-energy medley, from ’99 Problems’ to ‘Encore,’ with Memphis Bleek joining him on stage.

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On Wednesday Alicia was spotted at Proenza Shouler front row during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City. Check more pictures in the gallery.

Swizz Beatz celebrated his 33rd birthday on Tuesday.  And the next day his wife Alicia Keys threw him a private party at Highline Skating Rink in the middle of Manhattan.

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Alicia was joined by her husband on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. The married couple worn matching black outfits as they sat front row alongside Lea Michele, Courtney Love, and Zoë Kravitz at Alexander Wang’s spring 2012 show.

Alicia and her family were spotted yesterday out and about in New York City.

In other news: To help honor the victims and heroes of September 11, director Spike Lee recently filmed a tribute to the New York Fire Department. Working with State Farm, Lee filmed over 100 children from New York as they serenade members of the FDNY to the tune of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s smash hit “Empire State of Mind.”
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