If the pen is mightier than the sword then the tongue is mightier than a hashtag. I’m talking about Chris Rock’s mouth and the Oscar So White hashtag. Rock took on the Hollywood establishment on Sunday night, and of course it came with a heavy degree criticism like: -He crossed a line. -He didn’t […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton has announced plans to stage a rally on Sunday prior to the Oscars to protest a lack of diversity in Hollywood. The rally, announced Thursday, also is intended to support a push for a nationwide TV tune-out of the Academy Awards ceremony. Critics say the awards show, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movies make more money when exactly half their casts are non-white, according to an annual analysis released Thursday that shows an increasing demand for diversity in film. In previous years, movies did better at the box office if two or three of the top eight billed actors were non-white. The latest […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Creed” director Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae and other Hollywood celebrities have big plans for Oscar night. But they have nothing to do with the Academy Awards. Coogler and company will be 2,300 miles away in Flint, Michigan, participating in a benefit for residents affected by the town’s lead-contaminated water […]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Guests at the first American Black Film Festival Honors are ready for Chris Rock to shake up the Oscars. Don Cheadle, Ice Cube, Adina Porter and Michelle Mitchenor are among the entertainers eager to hear the comedian’s take on Hollywood’s diversity crisis when he hosts Sunday’s Academy Awards. “I think […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. A study to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph Fiennes is defending himself in the wake of criticism after being cast as Michael Jackson in an upcoming half-hour TV special, acknowledging the topic is “sensitive” but never intending it to be divisive. The white actor will play the King of Pop in the upcoming Sky Arts comedy “Elizabeth, Michael, […]
With the Academy Awards ceremony set to take place in a few weeks, Jada Pinkett-Smith has found one more Oscar snub worth addressing: Idris Elba’s performance in “Beasts of No Nation,” for which he didn’t receive a nomination. Pinkett-Smith notes that many found the movie was “too difficult of a movie to watch,” and that […]
Actor Will Smith will not be at the Oscars this year, but he had a few things to say about the boycott his wife proposed and the huge response it got from Hollywood, up to and including a change in the Academy voting system. Smith continues to be a Hollywood A-lister although his project of […]
It’s probably safe to say that Chris Rock has a lot on his mind as he gears up to host the Oscars later this month amid the issue of diversity being the talk of Hollywood. With that, the 51-year-old funnyman touched on a very relevant situation as he graces the cover of Essence’s annual Hollywood […]
Anthony Anderson is hosting the NAACP Image Awards tonight on TV One. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about #OscarsSoWhite and his…
Anthony Anderson is hosting the NAACP Image Awards tonight on TV One. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about #OscarsSoWhite and his conversation with Chris Rock. “I spoke to Chris the day after he threw out his script. I was just asking him, how should I tackle this on the Image Awards […]
