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The rising chorus for “La La Land” is suddenly missing a very conspicuous note. The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild nominations, announced Wednesday in West Hollywood, California, included nominations for the leads of Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed musical, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. But the perceived Oscar front-runner was notably absent in the SAGs’ top category, […]
Find out the details of her new book and see behind the scenes from the cover shoot.
John Legend isn't here for the mess.
Los Angeles, CA (December 13, 2016) – Movies, documentaries and TV shows about the black experience were in abundance in 2016 making it a truly historic year in terms of the number of movies, documentaries and TV shows released and number of blacks represented in front and behind the camera. “Our members had a plethora […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey‘s new book imprint has an easy name to remember. She’s calling it “An Oprah Book,” Flatiron Books told The Associated Press on Wednesday. A division of Macmillan, Flatiron first announced in 2015 that it would work with Winfrey on a line of nonfiction books, personally selected by her. The […]
Hulu is teaming with producers DeVon Franklin, Tony Krantz and MGM TV to develop a series based on Pam Grier’s 1974 blaxploitation classic “Foxy Brown,” with Franklin’s wife Meagan Good to take on the lead role, reports Deadline.com. Malcolm Spellman (“Empire”) and Ben Watkins (“Burn Notice:) will pen the TV adaptation, described by Deadline as […]
Lupe Fiasco says he is done with the music industry after his new song “N.E.R.D.” was banned by music sharing service SoundCloud for being anti-Semitic. The track, which samples J. Cole’s “Everybody Dies,” was taken down due to such controversial lyrics as: “Artists gettin’ robbed for their publishing by dirty Jewish execs that think his […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby‘s latest court appearance in his sexual assault case (all times local): 10:45 a.m. A prosecutor is arguing that 13 women who accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault should be allowed to testify at his upcoming trial because their stories are so similar that they show the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West returned to social media for the first time since his hospitalization to talk about his meeting with Donald Trump. West wrote on Twitter that he met with Trump Tuesday to “discuss multicultural issues” that included “bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculums, and violence in Chicago.” https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/808769046208532484 Trump said after the […]
Fences tells the story of an African American father (Denzel Washington) struggling with race relations in the United State while trying to raise his family (Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo) in the 1950s. Jovan talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about how he landed the critically acclaimed role and what it was like working with Washington […]
On the heels of his 20th anniversary, Eric Benet is a beautiful reminder that consistency and great music is all you need to win. The four-time Grammy nominee has returned to his first love with his latest self-titled album Eric Benet. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his growing family, Prince and […]
TNT is getting its nails did. The Turner-owned network has officially given a series order for the Rashida Jones-produced dramedy “Claws,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Due in 2017, the 10-episode single-camera comedy is described as a midnight-dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness that follows the rise of five diverse and treacherous Floridian manicurists […]
