Donald Glover

Congrats are in order for 11-year-old JD McCrary. The youngster and up coming star singer/actor just got himself an album deal that could bring him a nice sized fortune. According to McCrary’s contract with Disney’s Hollywood Records, McCrary is receiving a cash advance of $80,000 for 12 master recordings, which can be released in one album […]

  Donald Glover (or Childish Gambino) isn’t too happy with his record label right now. According to The Blast, he’s accusing them of taking more than their fair share of his royalties. Glassnote allegedly owes nearly $700K in royalties to Glover. According to legal documents obtained by The Blast, Glover’s lawyers say: “Glassnote’s multiple breaches […]

It’s been two years since news of a Peter Berg-directed documentary on Rihanna was announced. Finally, the film is just months away from arriving in theaters. Berg, whose action film Mile 22 was released Friday, revealed in April 2016 that he was working on a Rihanna film modeled after D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back. While the documentary, said […]

Nominations for the 2018 (70th annual) Primetime Emmy Awards were announced by the Television Academy in a ceremony hosted by Samira Wiley from The Handmaids Tale and Ryan Eggold from NBC’s upcoming drama, New Amsterdam. HBO’s Game of Thrones led the pack with 22 nods, the most for any series. NBC’sSaturday Night Live and HBO’s Westworld trailed close behind with 21 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — While HBO’s Game of Thrones is the top nominated show with 22 nods, and streaming network Netflix is the top network with 112 nominations, one person has a shot at joining a very elite club. If Singer/songwriter John Legend — who is up for two awards — wins, he could join […]

Following an appearance by Donald Glover (who performs musically as Childish Gambino) on the BET Awards Sunday night, fans suggested that he “stole” his No. 1 single “This is America” from NYC rapper Jase Harley’s song “American Pharaoh.” The controversy began on Reddit and spread through Twitter and Instagram. Glover’s creative partner and “This Is America” music video producer Fam Rothstein […]

For a living, I study, write, speak, and organize around injustice in America. If you’ve ever heard me speak here on the show even one time, you probably heard me speak about some type injustice in America. I tell people all the time that I wish I could work myself out of the job. I […]

In a world where Ben Carson, Omarosa Manigault and now Kanye West have been somewhat thriving and using their platform in support of an administration that doesn’t support Black people, you have to wonder what else is coming our way. From problems of police brutality to issues of racial discrimination like the Starbucks incident and […]

Atlanta creator and actor Donald Glover is set to host and be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. On May 5, Glover will be lending his talents for acting and music to the satirical show according to Page Six. Glover is currently slaying FX with his comedy Atlanta. He’ll also be in the new film Solo: A Star Wars Story. He’s […]

Fans who were anticipating FX’s animated “Deadpool” series from Donald Glover later this year will have to wait a little longer. As reported in May, Glover was to have created the show with his brother, Stephen Glover, the pair behind FX’s critically acclaimed series “Atlanta.” FXX had ordered 10 episodes of the project, which would […]

The numbers are in and season 2 of the FX show Atlanta Robbin’ Season received a 1.8 million viewers. After an 18 month recess returning on March 1, the show brought in 1.3 million views in adults between the ages of 18-49 which is up a whole 7% over the première of season 1 according to Deadline. FX […]

Donald Glover is continuing to set an example for multitalented artists. With his Atlanta show premiering in March and a performance at the Grammys this past weekend (as Childish Gambino), Donald is just getting started.  Legendary producer Quincy Jones is definitely taking notice. In a recent interview with GQ, the producer responsible for smash records like […]