Cringe at any talk you hear about how Chris Rock ought to quit his hosting gig at this year’s Academy Awards to boycott the upcoming event alongside the other black celebrities who plan to. Because if you know anything about Rock, you know that the first things that’ll come flying out of that man’s mouth…

A young Michelle Obama, then Michelle Robinson, was anxious about her standing as a young African-American female attorney working at a white-shoe law firm in 1989 Chicago. Most particularly, she was concerned about how her higher-ups would perceive it if she started to date another African-American summer associate at the firm. This is what is…

Wendy Williams’ eyes kept welling up during one of her after-show episodes as she rejoiced at the idea that her eponymous talk show had been renewed until 2020.  “2020. I found out at that particular time and I was just a bit overwhelmed,” Williams explained, recalling an earlier episode in which she welled up but…

A struggling college student has got to do what he’s gotta do, even if he is the son of acclaimed movie director John Singleton.  Singleton’s son, Maasai Mohandas Singleton, created a GoFundMe page to raise money for his college tuition. Maasai is a senior in the University of Southern California’s Writing for Screen and Television program. …

Jamie Foxx helped a driver escape a burning truck that had tumbled over multiple times after careening from a California road and into a drainage ditch, CNN reports.  The 32-year-old man’s name is Brett Kyle, and he ended up on the passenger side of the truck after the accident in Ventura County Monday night. Foxx,…

Kanye West lent his eponymous website to his good friend Yasiin Bey (commonly known as Mos Def) Tuesday night so that the New York rapper and actor could explain what’s going on in South Africa and what led to Bey’s reported arrest last week for producing an unlawful passport.  In a recording, Bey started off…

Who knew that a line in Chris Rock’s Top Five movie about a fictitious Madea Halloween movie would eventually make it to the big screen? According to Variety, that’s how Boo! A Madea Halloween came to be. It’s being released on Oct. 21 and will star Tyler Perry as the no-holds-barred matriarch, who will be fighting…

The conversation that the #OscarSoWhite hashtag, Jada Pinkett Smith’s tweet and video, and Spike Lee’s Facebook post began—about the fact that black actors are not recognized and rewarded at the Academy Awards—is going full steam ahead. Academy Award winner George Clooney jumped into the fray during an interview with Variety and argued that African Americans “have a…

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about how Hollywood doesn’t support or recognize black actors and actresses, especially in light of the award season we’re in the middle of. But ask Idris Elba and he’ll tell you that it’s even worse in the United Kingdom.  The Guardian got ahold of a speech that it says…

Kudos to Kode magazine for putting six of Hollywood’s rising African-American actresses and singers on the cover of its January issue and dubbing these six ladies #GenerationNoir.  The lineup includes actress, fashion trendsetter and body-image activist Zendaya Coleman; singer and actress Kat Graham, who will play Jada Pinkett Smith in an upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic;…