TV & Film
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized the work of Denzel Washington, Quentin Tarantino and the little girl from “Beasts of the Southern Wild” in its nominations for 2013 Academy Awards. Slavery-era dramas “Django Unchained” and “Lincoln” will face off for Best Picture, while “Django” also scored a nom for Best Supporting […]
In about week, when “American Idol” airs, we will finally get to witness Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey do what they were placed on the…
Erica and Tina Campbell, the award-winning gospel duo known best to fans as Mary Mary, had a successful run with their self-titled reality show on WEtv last year. So of course they’re back with season two on Thursday night at 9 p.m. This episode finds them in a very familiar place – the Red Velvet […]
When white children go missing the nation knows it. Think of Caylee Anthony or any other recently publicized case. But when it comes to missing black children, the mainstream media often ignores their cases. In 2005, Scripps-Howard News Service conducted its own study which concluded that missing white children were covered in 67% of dispatches […]
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive preview of next week’s episode of “The Bachelor,” in which star Sean tells one of the show’s three African American contestants that his last girlfriend was black. EW points out the irony of the conversation, considering this current season is the first to air since the show was sued for […]
Nominees for the 33rd Annual RAZZIE Awards, “honoring” the Worst Achievements in Film for 2012, include the work of filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Eddie Murphy. While “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” led all nominees with 11, and Adam Sandler’s “That’s My Boy” followed with 8 nominations, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for […]
Rob Parker has been axed from ESPN after facing a lot of heat from his infamous Robert Griffin III comments. If you remember, Parker asked a fellow commentator, if RG3 is “a brother or a cornball brother.” He went on to say, “He’s not real. Okay, he’s black, he kind of does the thing, but […]
NBC was a ratings winner on Monday due to “The Biggest Loser” and the series premiere of Meagan Good’s new drama “Deception.” “Loser” averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 2.4 in the 18-to-49 demographic, down 17 percent from Sunday’s premiere, while “Deception” followed with a so-so 5.6 million viewers and a 2.0. “Deception” did manage […]
It’s a done deal for the resurrection of “In Living Color.” After Fox ordered a special more than a year ago, today Fox chairman Kevin Reilly made the decision official. “It’s not gonna happen,” he told reporters at the TCA Press Tour in Pasadena. “(The original) was a seminal show for Fox, and the bar […]
If you aren’t a fan of the hit ABC show “Scandal”, then you should be. The all-star cast is led by Kerry Washington, who plays Washington fixer Olivia Pope. The talented actress is a favorite on the show, but many “Scandal” fans have also grown to love Pope’s quirky killer-for-hire colleague Huck, played brilliantly by […]
Former TLC member Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins is ironically starring in a new reality series on the TLC Network called “Totally T-Boz.” The show centers around T-Boz’s life with her daughter Chase, 13, and other close friends and family members as she rebounds from her recent financial burdens including problems with making car payments for her […]
We already know what you’re thinking: Not another movie about slavery. And please, gawd, not another Hollywood silver-screen saga of “The Great White Hope” saving some poor black folk from their wretched, unhinged lives. Those were my exact sentiments (replete with a side eye and blank stare) when I first learned about Quentin “I-love-using-the-n-word-every-chance-I-get” Tarantino’s […]
