This remake of Shaft should be good, if you think the ABC series Black-ish is comedic and cultural genius, as I do. That’s right; according to the Hollywood Reporter, the 1971 blaxploitation film is getting a reboot, and Kenya Barris, the force behind Black-ish, has been tapped to write the script. Reports say that Barris will infuse some…

It seems that the n-word was a regular part of Hulk Hogan’s vocabulary. He didn’t just use it when he was mad, or speaking disparagingly of African Americans. Looks like he also used it the way some black people do: endearingly. Except the problem is, well, he’s not black.  According to the Daily Mail, more…

There’s nothing wrong with Whoopi Goldberg’s and Raven-Symoné’s defense on Wednesday of Fox co-anchor Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s recent question about the Sandra Bland incident; it’s the other stuff The View co-hosts had to say about “people of color” who harp on race that is off the mark.  But let’s start at the beginning. Bland was pulled…

The executives over at Fox are going to have to do something very soon about Terrence Howard’s character on Empire if allegations keep popping up that he beats women.  It’ll only be so long before the streets start buzzing, and women-advocacy groups and black Twitter will say they’ve had enough and start calling for something…

Styles P recently reminded everyone about the importance of putting family first. Losing a daughter made him realize that a person’s interactions with friends and loved ones is what matters the most in life, not material success. He’d probably love to hear that Janet Jackson is demonstrationg that point.  After hearing that her dad, Joe…

Whenever mainstream news organizations cover Africa, they always seem to want to show the bad stuff: the poverty and the hunger that plague some communities. It irks my dad no end; he says that if they turned their cameras to a few neighborhoods right here in America, they’d see people who are living in very…

It’s no longer an on-set romance or even a budding relationship. Grace Gealey and Trai Byers—who play Anika Calhoun and Andre Lyon on Empire—are engaged, E! News confirmed Tuesday.  According to reports, Byers threw Gealey a surprise party at a Chicago restaurant to celebrate her 33rd birthday. “She thought it would just be the two of them going…

It was a great accomplishment: two African-American comedians at the helm—and also starring in—a sketch-comedy show that aired on a cable network not specifically targeting African Americans. Key & Peele was anecdotal proof that black comics, and the content they might produce about race every now and then, could be consistently appreciated by mainstream audiences who…

It looks like these two enjoy working together.  According to Deadline, Jay Z and Will Smith, who produced 2014’s Annie remake, are teaming up once again to co-produce a HBO miniseries that will tell the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old from Chicago who was brutally killed by two white men in 1955 after he…

Leah Still, the 5-year-old rock-star daughter of Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Devon Still, is not letting radiation treatments for her cancerous neuroblastoma get her down.  In a video posted to her father’s Instagram account Sunday, Leah apparently wants in on all the Nae Nae fun and challenges Riley Curry, the 3-year-old daughter of NBA player Stephen Curry,…