The Thanksgiving holiday is always filled with good cheer and good food but for this year’s celebration you can add a side of creepy. Spike Lee’s latest joint, Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, is a remake of a 2003 South Korean film itself adapted from a Japanese manga (animated film). After advertising exec Joe Doucett is […]

What would twenty years in captivity do to you? What if you didn’t know why you were being held or who put you there? How…

What would twenty years in captivity do to you? What if you didn’t know why you were being held or who put you there? How…

Samuel L. Jackson probably let out more f-bombs than usual after suffering an injury while participating in a stunt. The actor told David Letterman he separated his shoulder while shooting a sequence for forthcoming action film “Big Game” in Germany. “It’s another one of those ‘president in jeopardy’ films… That’s where I separated my shoulder,” […]

  Considering that Samuel L. Jackson is an actor who is mostly known for cussing and playing bad guys in every film he’s in, it’s…

TV & Film

It’s Award Season! And so far what a season it’s been. Kelly Rowland was stunning in her gown during the 55th Grammy Awards, which LL Cool J hosted, while more than 28 million viewers tuned in. But surprisingly that’s not as many as the 40 million who watched the previous year. How can that be […]

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hours after President Barack Obama delivered remarks about Trayvon Martin and the George Zimmerman trial, Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson addressed the racially charged case at Comic-Con in San Diego. Foxx was at the massive pop culture convention to promote his role as the villain Electro in “The Amazing Spider-Man […]

If You Missed It, Originals

Tom and the crew open the show talking about a wide array of topics including the building collapse in Philly, Samuel L. Jackson’s stuttering, tropical storm Andrea and Paris Jackson‘s suicide attempt. Plus, Tom announces who he is rooting for in the 2013 NBA Finals.

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Apparently Samuel L. Jackson needs to say “m*****f****r” as much as audiences want him to. In a speech at last night’s American Institute for Stuttering gala, Jackson revealed that the swear word wards off a stutter he has been battling since his childhood in Tennessee. Audiences may have thought that Jackson simply had an unusual […]

In the world of Hollywood, leading roles for Black actresses come a dime a dozen. So, when the role Olivia Pope began available, A-listers, D-listers…

Little Known Black History Facts

The Jheri curl is a hairstyle developed in the 1970’s by white chemist and stylist Robert William Redding. Redding was also responsible for the creation of hair conditioner and PH balanced shampoo. The hairstyle was advertised as a low maintenance wash and wear, and easier to take care of than a chemical relaxer for blacks.  […]

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We already know what you’re thinking: Not another movie about slavery. And please, gawd, not another Hollywood silver-screen saga of “The Great White Hope” saving some poor black folk from their wretched, unhinged lives. Those were my exact sentiments (replete with a side eye and blank stare) when I first learned about Quentin “I-love-using-the-n-word-every-chance-I-get” Tarantino’s […]