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While recent awards shows have been a disappointment for R&B fans, there’s one show every year you can count on for showcasing the best in Black soul and R&B talent. The annual Soul Train Music Awards airs on Sunday, December 1 on BET and Centric at 8 p.m. and this year, Anthony Anderson does the honors […]

It may be Thanksgiving week across the country but the Christmas holiday has arrived in theatres a month early. “Black Nativity,” the holiday musical based on an original play by Langston Hughes and starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese and Jacob Latimore is out today. The film offers a healing story of music […]

For Robert Townsend, working with Bill Cosby was a chance to get paid and learn at the same time. Townsend directed Far From Finished, Cosby’s first concert show airing again on Comedy Central on Thanksgiving night at 4 p.m. Townsend said despite the years in between specials, Cosby remains a comedic genius. “He’s 76 years young […]

11/22/13- Comedian Deon Cole talks with Skip C, Sybil Wilkes, and J. Anthony Brown about all of his upcoming projects including his comedy special, “Black Code”, at the Chicago Harold Washington Cultural Center on November 23rd.

 Bill Cosby is still alive and kicking and on Comedy Central. His Comedy Central special Far From Finished, airs this weekend November 23 at 8 p.m. The Cos says he’s in pretty good company on that night. “You just turn on the TV to Comedy Central and Kevin Hart is on at 7, I’m on at […]

While the VH1 biopic Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story got rave reviews and a record 4 million viewers for the network, there’s one person who was not a fan. That was TLC’s former manager, Perri “Pebbles” Reid, who says she was falsely portrayed in the film, where she was played by Rochelle Aytes. Pebbles […]

The Thanksgiving holiday is always filled with good cheer and good food but for this year’s celebration you can add a side of creepy. Spike Lee’s latest joint, Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, is a remake of a 2003 South Korean film itself adapted from a Japanese manga (animated film). After advertising exec Joe Doucett is […]

Yup, pimpin’ Katt Williams is on the Fantastic Voyage 2014, set to sail from Miami on the Carnival Conquest from March 16-23.  We know you didn’t believe that a man with hair as groomed as Katt’s would willingly subject it to water and air but he’s proven you wrong. He’s aboard and he’s says his […]