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Rachel Lindsay is the first Black Bachelorette, and sadly, ABC is using the race card to ignite controversy and draw ratings for her season. HuffPost reports that among the men vying for Linday’s heart is 30-year-old Nashville singer Lee Garrett, a proud sexist, racist and vocal Trump supporter. Twitter sleuths uncovered his disturbing Twitter profile, […]

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Oliva Pope gets a lot of credit for being a powerful woman, but it’s the woman behind the fictional character who is helping to create real change in an industry that’s woefully lacking in women and people of color behind the camera. Kerry Washington on Monday spoke to a group […]

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — There’s the world of Trump and the world of “Scandal.” Don’t go looking for similarities between the two, because the ABC show’s creator certainly isn’t. The series returns to ABC’s lineup on Jan. 26 with its own election, early episodes that were filmed before the world learned the results of the […]

Shonda Rhimes is one of the most successful Black women in TV history but for the past several years, she’s also been struggling with her weight. Well, if you’ve seen her recently, then you know that struggle has been in the words of, Olivia Pope, the character she created, “handled.” Rhimes says she lost 117 […]

Kerry Washington talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about tonight’s season premiere of Scandal on ABC. Click the link above to hear her dish on working with Taraji P. Henson and Mary J. Blige during their three-part Apple Music commercial, what to expect from the return of #TGIT and her thoughts on Viola Davis‘ Emmy win. […]

Scandal returns Thursday, Sept. 24 at 9/8c on ABC, and show creator Shonda Rhimes tells TVLine that Season 5 will see Olivia and her remaining Gladiators reunite and do what they do best: Gladiate. Rhimes admits that the show’s central theme was sidelined in Season 4 because “we were busy healing” Olivia, but she says […]

Not only has Regina King signed on for Season 2 of John Ridley’s ABC anthology series American Crime, her status has also been bumped from recurring to series regular. But don’t expect her to return as Aliyah Shadeed…dealing with the aftermath of a murder in Modesto, California. King and her returning co-stars Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton will all play […]

  Scandal has had its share of episodes that fired up social media. But last week’s episode was one of the most controversial the show has ever aired. The episode,  entitled “The Lawn Chair” starred Courtney Vance as a D.C. father whose son was shot in the street by a police officer. Vance’s character refused to […]

Kerry Washington does have a real life outside of her hit show Scandal, although she keeps it very, very quiet. She does admit to having a  husband, former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha and daughter Isabelle, but you rarely see them. So when Washington admits she’s tired, it’s almost a confession. “I partied at that SNL 40th Anniversary […]