Sidney Poitier will receive the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ highest honor, at the film academy’s main awards ceremony in London Feb. 14. The award will coincide with the anniversary of Poitier’s first major BAFTA award for his 1958 role in The Defiant Ones. Throughout his career, Poitier has received…

Some may say Run-DMC single-handedly put hip-hop on the map back in the ’80s. And with their rise back then, they accomplished many firsts as a rap group. Run-DMC were the first to have a No. 1 R&B-charting rap album, the first rap act to chart in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 more than once.…

What happens when you put Kendrick Lamar and President Barack Obama in the same room? Big-ass hugs and smiles. Lamar recently visited the president to talk about his involvement with the National Mentoring Partnership. In an interview with BuzzFeed, presidential Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett spoke about the meeting and said the rapper was nervous. “[Lamar] was…

Last November, Al Roker attempted to catch a taxi in New York City, but the attempt was thwarted by a taxi driver who bypassed him and picked up a white customer. Roker tweeted about his taxi experience and stated that it’s still not uncommon for taxis to bypass black people. https://twitter.com/alroker/status/668239668337614849https://twitter.com/alroker/status/668243194182828033 He immediately filed a…

Danai Gurira is known to fans of The Walking Dead as the sword-swinging Michonne. But the Zimbabwean American is about to take on a new role that will have her raising a prolific rapper. Gurira has signed on to portray Afeni Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s mother, in the late rapper’s biopic, All Eyez on Me. According to Deadline,…

There were so many lingering storylines in the box-office hit Creed. Director Ryan Coogler seemed to purposely leave the movie open for sequels, and that may happen sooner rather than later. According to Variety, MGM is aiming for a November 2017 release date of a sequel, but the studio hasn’t said whether Coogler will return…

Lamar Odom’s life took a turn for the worse in October when the former NBA star ended up in a coma after an alleged drug overdose. Odom, who was staying at a Nevada brothel at the time, was allegedly using cocaine and herbal Viagra when he was found unconscious at Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch South.  During his…

Many fans of the RZA yelled a resounding “Et tu, RZA?” last week when the Wu-Tang Clan founder spoke about police brutality and how black people should dress better in order to prevent them from being profiled and brutalized by cops. “When you think about some of the brothers who are being brutalized by the police, you also got…

The Make-a-Wish Foundation likely receives thousands of wishes each year from terminally ill children and can’t possibly make everyone’s wish come true. But that didn’t stop Kevin Durant. Brooke Wolcott is a 17-year-old fighting cystic fibrosis who is a huge fan of KD. Brooke’s Durant wish wasn’t picked by the foundation, but being the nice…

Just three days after social media celebrated David Bowie Day in recognition of the singer’s birthday and new album release, the 69-year-old singer’s son announced that his father died peacefully in his sleep Sunday. Bowie, born David Robert Jones, died after an 18-month battle with cancer, his son, Duncan Jones, confirmed on Facebook. “David Bowie died…