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Drew, real name Tequan Richmond, is all grown up now.

  Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker are well known for their acting skills. But the couple is moving into a new genre with their brand new daily talk show, The Boris and Nicole Show. “We’re having a ball,” says Parker. “We met on a set. so we’re used to spending a lot of time around each […]

Michael Jai White and his longtime girlfriend Gillian White tied the knot in a gorgeous Thailand wedding over the Fourth of July weekend.

  Veteran actor Joe Morton is now best known for his role on the hit television show, Scandal, but he’s also a big proponent on diversity in Hollywood. As Papa Pope, Morton is experiencing a career renaissance, although he has credits going back three decades. Morton says that despite the, shall we say, enthusiasm with […]

  Actor Terry Crews, the new host of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire and the star of every movie that Samuel L. Jackson isn’t in, has been married to his wife Rebecca for over 25 years. Like any couple married that long, they’ve been through their share of issues. One of the major challenges to […]

Actor JR Lemon went from playing football at Stanford with a stint on the Oakland Raiders to acting. It may not be the most common preparation for playing a male nurse, but he’ll take it. The Stanford graduate is part of the ensemble cast of the new NBC medical show The Night Shift, which takes […]

Columbus Short will not be returning to Scandal for season 4, Short has confirmed. In a statement to Essence.com, Short says his character, Harrison Wright, who was left at gunpoint during the season 3 finale will not return. “At this time I must confirm my exit from a show I’ve called home for 3 years, […]

Think you have a crazy family? Well in Terry McMillan’s 2001 book, while Viola is in the hospital recovering from a near-fatal asthma attack, she decides that if she lives, she’s going to have to do something about her family, including her estranged husband and troubled children. Now that book is a Lifetime Network movie […]

Omar Epps may have a hit show in the new ABC series Resurrection but all anybody wanted to talk about this week was the supposed “skirt” he wore in an appearance on The View. Epps was taken to task by 90’s rapper Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian, whose Twitter account is often controversial. Jamar is […]

The nighttime soap, The Haves and the Have Nots, on OWN already has at least one prominent celebrity fan – our own Tom Joyner. His crush on actress Tika Sumpter, who plays Candace, is one of the reasons, but there’s plenty of acting talent on the show. Gavin Houston, who plays Jeffrey Harrington is another fan […]

BET’s new hit show, Being Mary Jane, starring Gabrielle Union in the title role, has only been on a for a minute but already two fan favorites have emerged from Mary Jane Paul’s messy love life. That would be her lovers David and Andre, who have forced fans of the show to take sides on […]

Before there was swagger, there was suave and men like Billy Dee Williams had it. These days, suave men are few and far between, but actor Harry Lennix is definitely one of them. He is currently starring on the new hit NBC series The Blacklist playing FBI head Harry Cooper. Cooper is forced to deal […]