My newest events show up as black squares

The newest events I've imported show up as black key photos and no images show when I roll my mouse over the event. When I am in photos view all the pictures show up and can be opened. It looks like this:
When I change the size of the events by using the bottom right slider I can see the event key photos, but as soon as I release the slider the events return back to black squares, as shown below:

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Include the option to rebuild the thumbnails. It can take 3 or 4 goes for this to work

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