Black Oscar winners

Oscar-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique is known for her transparency and outspokenness on issues that are important to her. Whether she’s calling revered Black entertainers and gatekeepers to the carpet, or advocating to be paid her worth, one thing she never does is hold back her opinion. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER. SUBSCRIBE TO […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba Gooding Jr. faces a new accuser and new charges in his New York City sexual misconduct case, his lawyer said Wednesday. The actor is due in court Thursday for an arraignment on an updated misdemeanor indictment, lawyer Mark Heller said. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER:  LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge rejected Cuba Gooding Jr.’s bid to throw out his New York City groping case so he can continue working, saying Wednesday that she needed time to review written arguments and didn’t want to make a rash decision. Judge Keisha Espinal said she wouldn’t rule on the actor’s request to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested Thursday and charged with forcible touching after a woman accused him of groping her at a New York City night spot. Gooding, 51, was charged after turning himself in to investigators in the New York Police Department’s special victims division. He remained in police custody and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. will turn himself in to New York City police on Thursday to face allegations he groped a woman at a Manhattan night spot, his lawyer said. Gooding, the Oscar-winning star of “Jerry Maguire” is expected to face a charge stemming from an alleged incident over the weekend […]

Have you ever wished you could be at a dinner party with both Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington? Well, as it’s not likely you are on either of their invite lists (unless you are, then call us, we’d like to go) watching a conversation between the two Oscar winners is the next best thing. While […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant is a winner in retirement, too. The former Los Angeles Lakers star won an Oscar in the animated short category for “Dear Basketball,” a poem he wrote after ending his 20-year career on the court in 2016.   Kobe Bryant acaba de ganar un Oscar por su cortometraje “Dear […]

The 90th Annual Academy Awards are just around the corner, and it’s definitely the year to root for everybody Black. In honor of Mary. J Blige, Denzel Washington and Daniel Kaluuya, who are just a few of the Black contenders for the trophy this year, check out these mesmerizing photos of Black excellence drippin’ at […]

    From Shadow and Act: “I have a career that’s probably comparable to Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver. They all came out of Yale, they came out of Julliard, they came out of NYU. They had the same path as me, and yet I am nowhere near them. Not as far as money, not as far […]

Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o has revealed that she, too was a victim of Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein’s reign of sexually predatory behavior. The actress wrote an op-ed for The New York Times where she detailed her naiveté in her dealings with Weinstein at the start of her career. She says that on several occasions, Weinstein […]

It’s never too late. For an 86-year-old Chicago woman, it certainly wasn’t too late to  meet Denzel Washington. A lifelong fan, Juanita Hubbard got the visit she never expected – from the Oscar winner himself. In Chicago and driving around a once-familiar neighborhood, Washington stopped to get directions and was told that one of his […]

It’s never too late. For an 86-year-old Chicago woman, it certainly wasn’t too late to  meet Denzel Washington. A lifelong fan, Juanita Hubbard got the visit she never expected – from the Oscar winner himself. In Chicago and driving around a once-familiar neighborhood, Washington stopped to get directions and was told that one of his […]