Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an organization founded in 1995 to support black and Latino youth in under-resourced communities, recently held it’s annual fund-raising event called Voices 7. The star-studded evening in Manhattan featured a silent auction, a cocktail reception and a special poetic performance from Lyrical Circle. Voices 7 also included special awards for people who have shown faith and dedication towards Brotherhood/Sister Sol’s goals. Among the honorees were the cutest mayor who was ever cute, the Honorable David Dinkins.

Madame Noire was there to capture all of the action and we got to catch up with gorgeous actress Rosario Dawson, super talented journalist Soledad O’Brien and intellectual powerhouse Dr. Cornel West. Check out the video below and be sure to catch the adorable end of the video! We LOVE Rosario!

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Rosario Dawson has said that a Sin City sequel will honour Brittany Murphy should it get made.

Murphy, who played strip club worker Shellie in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s 2005 original, passed away in December last year.

“We’ve been talking about [the sequel] for so many years after we’d made the first one and to do it again, now she’s not with us anymore, that would be something we’d be very specific about making an acknowledgement to and making sure she’s a part of it,” Dawson told Digital Spy.

“She was such an integral part of the first film, such an amazing actress and person and we miss her and I think it would be a great opportunity to honour her by doing a second film and making sure we acknowledge that.”

Discussing the possibility of the follow-up, and her character Gail, Dawson said: “I really hope it happens. I don’t know how much longer I can fit into that outfit! I do get to wear a mask this time, which I am looking forward to.

“I love Frank and I love Robert and I love that world. I think it’s really insane and intense. It’s incredible to see how much that movie has affected things in so many movies I’ve seen since.”

Click ‘play’ below to watch Rosario talk Sin City 2.

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You can stream Rosario Dawson’s interview on “Conan” below.

“I’m completely shallow,” actress Rosario Dawson admits to iVillage exclusively about how she first met her “beautiful” boyfriend of three years, French deejay Mathieu Schreyer. “I just saw him at a table across from me at a restaurant. I was really upset because it looked like he was looking at my uncle and not me.” But when Dawson approached her now-beau to ask who he was looking at and he responded, “Well, actually, I’m looking at the both of you” in his French accent, the actress was “hooked.”

And while it may seem gutsy to approach a random man at a restaurant, she’s always been a risk-taker. Her new role in the runaway-train action-thriller Unstoppable pairs her with Denzel Washington, but the two didn’t actually shot their scenes together. “I do know Denzel and it really helped and informs those moments when I’m talking to white Denzel, who was his off-camera guy, who sounds exactly like him, but clearly doesn’t look like him!” she admits.

Watch our exclusive video (above) to find out why Dawson says she can be like a guy (hint: it involves crepes!) and her trick to surviving scary transportation scenarios.

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Like her “Unstoppable” co-stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson put in serious time and research to prepare for her role in the Tony Scott thriller about a runaway train. Dawson says she had the opportunity to meet with a real-life inspiration for her character: a female rail-yard manager.

“We had a great opportunity, we found this amazing woman, Mary Alexander,” Dawson recently told MTV News. Dawson said she got to pick Alexander’s brain, and peppered her with questions about proper rail-yard vernacular, protocol and technical terminology.

In the film, opening Friday, Dawson plays Connie, a headstrong rail-yard manager who, along with Pine and Washington’s characters, goes up against her corporate bosses in an attempt to stop a train loaded with explosive chemicals from careening into a small town.

“To do that and know it was a woman who went through it, I was like, ‘How did you work your way up? What did that feel like?’ ” she recalled asking Alexander. “You get those obvious clichéd things about a woman working in a men’s industry, but you also get this [explanation]: ‘Listen, this is a high-stakes situation, this doesn’t happen every day but when it does, you want capable people to be there.’

“To be someone composed and a leader in that, that’s what I wanted Connie to be,” Dawson added. “Not just a cool, spunky woman or a bitchy aggressive woman, but just the right person for the job.”