Entertainment
After playing an iconic comic book character on the big screen, actor Michael B. Jordan has now crafted one from scratch. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Fantastic Four” star is teaming with writer Nathan Edmondson to pen “North,” an action spy comic that will include illustrations from Eisner-winning artists Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Khloe Kardashian is behind a new makeover series at the E! network, where she promises to help the brokenhearted get the “ultimate payback.” E! said Wednesday it had approved a six-episode series where one of the network’s favorite sisters will be mentor people trying to turn their life around. She calls […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Having already played Jackie Robinson and James Brown, Chadwick Boseman will tackle another icon in a courtroom thriller about Thurgood Marshall. Producers announced Wednesday that Boseman will star as the legendary attorney in “Marshall,” a film to be directed by “Django Unchained” producer Reginald Hudlin. The film focuses on a case […]
After its little Ben Affleck hiccup, the PBS series Finding Your Roots is back in January with an all new third season of celebs tracing their family trees, aided by host Henry Louis Gates Jr. The series had to take a time out after Season 2, when news broke that Affleck tried to keep producers from revealing the discovery of his […]
Before the great “unblackening” happens at the White House in 2016, comedian Larry Wilmore will have his unfiltered say in front of the president himself. The host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show has been hired as the featured entertainer of next year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner – the final dinner with President Barack Obama as president. […]
Hotline Bling has been covered by many this year but we’re thinking this gospel version done by a group of teenagers in Walmart may be one of our favorites! Watch the video below! What do you think? Is it better than Anthony Hamilton‘s soulful cover? Watch Anthony’s here. Want to see more videos like this? Head […]
Rights groups are lobbying Nicki Minaj to scrap her upcoming concert in Angola, as a stand against the African country’s alleged human rights abuses. Minaj is scheduled to perform Saturday in the capital, Luanda, as part of a holiday season concert organized by Angolan mobile phone company Unitel. The Human Rights Foundation wrote a letter […]
As we’ve reported, Tamar Braxton‘s health issues had recently taken a turn for the worse to the point where she was hospitalized. Doctors initially diagnosed what they thought was pneumonia, but it turned out to be pulmonary embolism. She also had blood clots in both of her lungs. Well, that was then. This is now […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller” is still scaring up sales and giving the King of Pop’s legacy a new milestone. The album has sold 30 million copies in the United States, making Jackson the first artist to attain 30-time multiplatinum status, the Recording Industry Association of America and Jackson’s estate announced Wednesday. The […]
The filmmaker will host and narrate a two-hour live broadcast of religious musical The Passion, the network announced Tuesday. The telecast will air from Perry’s hometown of New Orleans on Palm Sunday, March 20, 2016, and feature a cast of yet-to-be-announced stars performing a variety of popular music arranged by executive producer Adam Anders (“Glee,” […]
Shaquille O’Neal has lent his huge hands to the launch of a new jobs program in his Newark, NJ hometown with hopes of increasing access to unions and construction jobs in the city. O’Neal teamed with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Tuesday to unveil Project Impact Newark. The goal is to prepare residents for union […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lamar Odom‘s bizarre downfall from a former Los Angeles Lakers star to a lost soul in a Nevada brothel had the world searching Google for answers more than any other topic this year. A four-day binge in October that culminated in Odom being found unconscious in the Nevada “Love Ranch” placed […]
