When many people think about the most memorable moments in black television history, the first storyline to pop into their minds is when Florida Evans read a letter informing her that her husband, James Evans, had died. And of course there’s the scene when Florida had her breakdown in the kitchen, when she could no…

Empire stars Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard are joining forces once again to host Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards, airing June 18 at 9 p.m. EDT. In preparation for the big night on Spike, Henson and Howard have been participating in promos for the cable channel, and the funniest one so far is their…

Rapper Pusha T, from the Clipse, is a Virginia Beach, Va., native, but he says he wasn’t made to feel welcomed in an establishment in his hometown. In a series of Instagram posts and tweets, the rapper put a local nightclub on blast for its “blatant racism.” https://twitter.com/PUSHA_T/status/605588269309562880https://twitter.com/PUSHA_T/status/605590378373386241https://twitter.com/PUSHA_T/status/605592582253604864 Pusha T was denied entry to Venue…

Fifty Shades of Grey wasn’t originally a comedy, but after sitting through the first 30 minutes of the movie, you realize the joke is definitely on the viewer. Sure, it wasn’t meant to be funny, but the best-selling book-turned-hit movie definitely garnered its fair share of criticism and laughs. Now it’s about to become a…

Gabourey Sidibe broke onto the scene in Lee Daniels’ Precious and is currently part of the amazing cast that makes up Empire. But Sidibe did have one interesting part-time job before she hit it big, and she’ll write about it in a new memoir. The untitled memoir is set to be published by Houghton Mifflin…

What do you do when you want to create without being told what and when to create? If you’re Janet— Ms. Jackson if You’re Nasty—you create your own record label. Jackson is readying the release of her untitled album under her new record label, Rhythm Nation. Rhythm Nation will “offer a home to both new…

Hollywood is running out of ideas again, so why not remake something that was once a hit? And that’s exactly what Disney is planning to do with Sister Act. The original Sister Act, released in 1992, starred Whoopi Goldberg and was one of Disney’s most successful movies of that decade, earning more than $200 million…

From television visionary to book author, is there anything Shonda Rhimes can’t do? Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that Rhimes will publish her first book in November. In Year of Yes, Rhimes will write about how she took on the challenge of saying yes, for one year, to unexpected invitations. “Saying yes for an entire year…

Tom Hanks has been called “the nicest guy in the world” for most of his acting career, but his son, aspiring rapper Chet Haze (real name Chester Hanks), is aiming for another title. Which is probably more along the lines of “f—kboy of the year.” Haze, who couldn’t rap himself out of a paper bag,…

2014 was the year of Iggy Azalea when it came to successfully appropriating culture and being rewarded for it. But a recent Change.org petition wants to snatch an award right out of her hands. The petition, which already has close to 24,000 signatures, seeks to have Azalea’s Billboard Top Rap Song award taken away. And…