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Jamie Foxx Producing TV Series About Marvin Gaye
Jamie Foxx is making behind-the-camera moves. The actor is currently slated to executive-produce a limited series about Marvin Gaye. Foxx is teaming up with Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones of de Passe Jones Entertainment for the series, and it will be shopped to digital and network outlets. “I’ve been a huge fan my whole…
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Trevor Noah and Tomi Lahren Debate Over Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick
Tomi Lahren, who some call the second coming of Ann Coulter—just more racist and annoying—appeared on The Daily Show Wednesday night and got into a heated debate with Trevor Noah over topics like Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick. Noah brought up not only the fact that Lahren is considered a racist but also her…
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Viola Davis on HTGAWM: 'Opportunity for a Dark-Skinned Actress of 50 to Be in a Role That’s Sexualized'
Viola Davis is 51 years old, and she’s not ashamed of her body. In an interview with Tom Hanks on Variety’s Actors on Actors, the actress says that she’s got nothing to hide when it comes to sex scenes. “I’m not a woman who’s a size 2,” Davis said. “If I’m in a sex scene, I want…
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Beyoncé Drops Stunning Video for 'All Night'
Beyoncé is still serving Lemonade with the release of her newest standalone video, “All Night.” The six-minute video, produced by Diplo, features footage of a pregnant Beyoncé, as well as clips of herself and Jay Z throughout their marriage, in home movies and spending time with Blue Ivy. Other standalone videos for Lemonade include “Hold Up,” “Sorry” and…
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Watch: Donald Glover, Sterling K. Brown and Cuba Gooding Jr. Read 2016's Funniest Tweets by Celebrities
Celebrities are infamous when it comes to attempting to be profound and funny on Twitter. But what’s even funnier is when other celebrities try to figure out who tweeted what. In GQ’s “The Year’s Funniest Tweets Read by the Year’s Best Actors,” Sterling K. Brown, Donald Glover, Cuba Gooding Jr. and others try to figure out…
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Tamera Mowry-Housley on White Husband Making Collard Greens: 'It Doesn't Always Have to Be About Race'
Tamera Mowry-Housley’s Thanksgiving came under fire after she posted a photo showing her white husband, Fox News journalist Adam Housley, making a pot of collard greens. A lot of the comments offered that there was no way a white man could cook greens, and the talk show host actually replied to one comment in particular on Tuesday’s…
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London Retailer 'Gentrified' Solange's Album Cover
Editor’s note: This article contains tweets that some may find offensive. High-end London retailer Oasis has some explaining to do when it comes to an ad it provided London’s Evening Standard newspaper. The photo in question looks remarkably similar to Solange’s A Seat at the Table album cover, and social media quickly came for the newspaper…
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Larry Wilmore Signs Development Deal With ABC
Late-night TV was definitely missing a voice this election season. After Comedy Central ended The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, many people questioned the timing, especially since Wilmore was able to perfectly mix comedy and politics while including a panel of guests and correspondents who carried their own weight. But now fans of Wilmore will be…
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Black Film Critics: 2016 Isn't the Year for #OscarsSoWhite
Last year you couldn’t read anything about the Oscars without seeing a mention of #OscarsSoWhite because of the lack of diversity in the films and actors who received nominations. But according to a statement from the African American Film Critics Association, 2016 has been the best year for black cinema. “The amount of quality feature films,…
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A WAACP Wouldn't Be So Bad, Right?
No one ever said racists were smart. And as a matter of fact, a 2012 research study published in Psychological Science showed that people who score low on IQ tests are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood. So the correlation between being dumb and being racist isn’t that far-fetched. Most recently,…