Awards

Academy Award winner and “Just Mercy” star Jamie Foxx has been selected by the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors as their Excellence in the Arts Award recipient. Via press release: *The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors today announced Academy AwardⓇ winner Jamie Foxx (“Ray,” “Just Mercy,” “Django Unchained”) as the recipient of the Excellence in the Arts Award, which honors a contemporary artist whose […]

The 50th NAACP Image awards are coming up and President and CEO Derrick Johnson is excited. The Image Awards were created to “promote positivity in our community.” Something that he believes Tom Joyner has been doing every day for over 25 years. This year he will be honored with the Vanguard Award. Joyner will be […]

Sybil was honored at the first Dallas Salute Her awards ceremony. It’s an event by Cafe Mocha Radio that celebrates exceptional women. She was celebrated for her outstanding broadcast work and says it was truly an honor. Though Tom wasn’t able to physically make it, he assures her that he was there in spirit. HEAD […]

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A debut novel about a displaced Palestinian family and a book of essays exploring race and identity during Barack Obama’s presidency have been named the winners of the annual Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The judges named Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses and Ta-Nehisi  Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power as its […]

Kanye West is a man of many talents, most recently he took his creative talents to the biggest porno company in the world, Pornhub. The Blast reported that Kanye will collaborated with Willo Perron and his agency, WP&A, to curate and serve as creative director for the inaugural Pornhub Awards. Kanye West and company worked with the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Cicely Tyson, composer Lalo Schifrin and publicist Martin Levy will be getting honorary Oscar statuettes this fall at the film academy’s Governors Awards, while producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the honorees Wednesday […]

Another jewel has been added to the crown of Queen Latifah. Philadelphia’s Mayor Jim Kenney announced Tuesday that the rapper, singer and actress would be the latest recipient of its Marian Anderson Award, named after the pioneering opera singer and Philly native who became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955. The award […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Big changes are coming to the Academy Awards, including the addition of a popular film award category and the promise of a shorter ceremony in an effort to combat declining viewership and criticisms that the awards are out of touch with the mainstream. But the Wednesday morning announcement was also met […]

After Cardi B delivered what only her fans are calling a “stellar” performance of her hit single “Bodak Yellow” at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards pre-show, she gave a shout out to NFL player and activist Colin Kaepernick. As you know, he’s been sidelined since the NFL blackballed the former San Francisco 49er. “Colin […]

Neither Erykah Badu nor Iggy Azalea are strangers to Twitter beef, but they may have to duke it out for the title of clap-back queen.

NEW YORK (AP) — Actresses Lupita Nyong’o and Laverne Cox, fashion designer Sarah Burton, U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power and Chelsea Clinton are among those being awarded Women of the Year awards by Glamour magazine. The awards are to be presented in a star-studded ceremony Monday evening at Carnegie Hall. Nyong’o won a supporting-actress Oscar for […]

Halle Berry was among the honorees in attendance at China’s equivalent of the Oscars, the Huading Awards, held for the first time in the U.S. at the Montalban theater in Hollywood on Sunday night. The live telecast reached more than 800 million viewers in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where 80 million fans voted for […]