Derek Fisher is no longer the coach of the New York Knicks, ESPN reports. He got fired Monday. The team’s record thus far this season is 23-21; it went 17-65 last season under Fisher’s coaching, which was his first time.  Fisher’s nemesis, Matt Barnes, wasted no time responding, albeit indirectly, to the news. Remember, Barnes…

When an A-list black celebrity—I’m talking upper-echelon A-list—does or says something pertaining to race specifically advocating for the black social-justice movement, it dominates news headlines, because there’s the idea that once you’ve “transcended race”—that is, crossed over—and are wholeheartedly embraced and accepted by the mainstream, it is in your best interest not to remind folk…

Everyone is waiting to see how Chris Rock will address the #OscarsSoWhite controversy at the Academy Awards, since he’s hosting. But Anthony Anderson did a pretty good job addressing it head-on as host of the NAACP Image Awards on Feb. 5. “Look at all these beautiful shades of people in the audience. Hollywood needs to…

Chris Rock is going to bat for black actresses, and he wants to reiterate, as he has time and time again, that they’re at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to which groups have it worst in Hollywood. “I’ve never done a movie, any movie, the silliest movie, where someone, some studio…

Lupita Nyong’o says she’s using the clout she has to be a part of the solution to the whole #OscarsSoWhite diversity issue in Hollywood.  “I think what we are asking for is really for more stories to be told—for inclusion in the stories that are told,” Nyong’o explained during an interview with the Today show.  “And I…

L.A. Reid said something during a recent radio interview that his ex-wife and former TLC manager, Pebbles, has been insinuating for years: that it was LaFace Record’s parent-label companies—Arista and BMG—that caused the money-flow problem for TLC.  Not Pebbles. Even when Pebbles insinuated this, as she did during TLC’s Behind the Music special on VH1…

When was the last time you saw a movie about an African king that didn’t focus on corruption or war but instead featured a love story that supposedly “changed the world”?  That’s the reason British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo is excited about his leading role in the upcoming movie A United Kingdom. He opened up about…

Change is an integral part of every organization’s growth. Especially if you’re running the Beyoncé empire. According to Page Six, Queen Bey made huge personnel changes at Parkwood Entertainment—her managerial and production hub that oversees all of her projects, tours, albums, artist management, endorsements and film endeavors. She hired a corporate bigwig, Steve Pamon, who…

They say love conquers all, even drives out hate. But can it change a politician’s mind about the excessive prison terms that some people are serving for nonviolent crimes? Alicia Keys certainly hopes so. She posted a tongue-in-cheek video asking Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to be her Valentine. She wants him to…

Wiz Khalifa told New York City radio host Angie Martinez that Kanye West apologized to him for their dustup on social media last week. “Yes, he apologized,” Wiz said. “Everything’s cool, we spoke, it’s all good.” Last week, West posted 20-some-odd insulting tweets directed at Wiz, all because he thought Wiz said something disrespectful about his…