Sitting atop 56 acres in an old IBM office building, North Atlanta High School is looking like every bit of the $147 million it costs to build it. Although that number is nowhere near the most expensive public school in the country — Robert F. Kennedy High School in Los Angeles cost $578 million —…

Comedian and actor Donald Glover, aka rapper Childish Gambino, will now add showrunner to his growing list of multihyphenates. Glover will executive-produce, write and star in a new television series currently in development with FX, according to Deadline. Tentatively entitled Atlanta, the comedy is set against the backdrop of the Atlanta music scene. Glover grew up…

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper, who was caught last week on tape saying the n-word at a Kenny Chesney concert, returned to the team’s training camp with a surprising message to the media: He has told all of his teammates not to exonerate him for his remarks, according to ESPN. “I talked to everyone…

William C. Thompson Jr. is the only black candidate in the New York City mayoral race. He has never spoken out explicitly against Gotham City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy. But in a New York Times article, Thompson not only came out against stop and frisk but also drew a correlation between the policy and George Zimmerman’s…

As a professor and creative director at New York University’s film school, Spike Lee has been honing the minds of future filmmakers for the past 15 years. One of his study guides includes a list that he gives to his students of the 50 films he feels every aspiring filmmaker should watch. The list is…

Many have spoken out against the unfortunate not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, who was on trial for killing 17-year-old unarmed Trayvon Martin. From the president of the United States to Stevie Wonder, people have expressed a range of emotions on not only the verdict but also the issue of race, which has been at the…

In an interview with MTV’s Hive, actor Tristan “Mack” Wilds was asked about the possibility of there being a movie version of The Wire. Wilds played the likable bad guy Michael Lee in the fourth and fifth seasons of the groundbreaking HBO drama and is currently promoting his music debut, in which he’s rapping under the…

Still riding the wave of success from his directorial debut, Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler is in talks to direct the next installment in the famed Rocky franchise, according to Deadline. The film, currently entitled Creed, the first in the series since 2006, would reportedly reunite Coogler with actor Michael B. Jordan, who stars as Oscar Grant…

Dana and Mark Gerstle, the couple rescued from their overturned Ford Explorer by George Zimmerman, have canceled a press conference. According to Gawker, the press conference was going to be hosted by Mark O’Mara, the lawyer who defended Zimmerman and successfully had him acquitted of charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the killing of…