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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Iconic females in the music industry shined at the Essence Festival, where Queen Latifah used her debut performance to celebrate “Ladies First” and her 30 years in the trenches. Latifah was one of the headliners on the festival’s main stage Saturday and was joined — to the delight of the crowd […]

Queen Latifah is in mourning tonight. Her beloved mother, Rita Owens has died. The rapper/singer/actress has been her mother’s caretaker for several years while she battled a heart condition. Born Dana Owens in New Jersey, she turned 48 on March 18th. Latifah shared the news in a statement to People.com: “It is with a heavy […]

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Lifetime has inked major production deals with both Queen Latifah and Toni Braxton, the network announced Thursday as part of its upfront presentation. Under Latifah’s deal, the rapper-singer-actress will serve as executive producer of the documentary “Where Did the Women of Hip Hop Go?,” which tells the history of the pioneering female rappers in a […]

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It’s downright shocking and sad that a movie about the devastating Flint, Michigan water crisis is here before the residents have clean and safe water available to them. Nevertheless, Lifetime’s new film Flint has just released its official trailer, which features the film’s stars Queen Latifah and Jill Scott. https://twitter.com/shadowandact/status/922820913690791937 Lifetime’s Flint, a network film […]

Elijah Kelley from The New Edition Story has signed on for a recurring role on Season two of Fox’s hit music drama Star, reports Deadline. Kelley will play Andy, a Harvard graduate who has worked all his life to pursue his dreams in the music industry. He’s knowledgeable and driven, but his charisma is what Ayanna […]

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Before you head to the theater to see some of Hollywood’s favorite ladies in the hilarious and raunchy comedy Girls Trip, you have to see just how stunning the cast is on the cover of the latest issue of Essence magazine. Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish look absolutely radiant as they […]

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Queen Latifah and Jill Scott are returning to Lifetime, this time for a movie about the Flint Water Crisis. The nation was deeply concerned about the crisis in Flint, Michigan, at the top of 2016 as we learned that politicans had allowed the tap water to be rendered undrinkable. We were shocked to learn how […]

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Master P has announced that his biopic, “King of the South,” will begin shooting this summer in his New Orleans hometown with Queen Latifah and “The Wire’s” Wendell Pierce committed to the project. The movie will follow his meteoric rise in the rap game through the success of his label No Limit Records, as well […]

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Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish are headed to the Essence Festival to get “white girl wasted” in the first trailer for director Malcolm D. Lee’s Girls Trip. The Universal comedy from writers Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver follows the four lifelong friends who travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence […]