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Chris Rock is going to bat for black actresses, and he wants to reiterate, as he has time and time again, that they’re at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to which groups have it worst in Hollywood. “I’ve never done a movie, any movie, the silliest movie, where someone, some studio…

Lupita Nyong’o says she’s using the clout she has to be a part of the solution to the whole #OscarsSoWhite diversity issue in Hollywood.  “I think what we are asking for is really for more stories to be told—for inclusion in the stories that are told,” Nyong’o explained during an interview with the Today show.  “And I…

L.A. Reid said something during a recent radio interview that his ex-wife and former TLC manager, Pebbles, has been insinuating for years: that it was LaFace Record’s parent-label companies—Arista and BMG—that caused the money-flow problem for TLC.  Not Pebbles. Even when Pebbles insinuated this, as she did during TLC’s Behind the Music special on VH1…

The billion-dollar comic book industry is right up there with Hollywood when it comes to inclusion and diversity. Although the major hitters, like DC Comics and Marvel, have made strides over the years, there’s still much more work to be done. Sure, there’s some diversity, but if you’re a fan of comics and a woman—especially…

Cam Newton is probably tired of answering so many questions over the last couple of days at Super Bowl press conferences. I mean, can you blame him? But there was one question asked Thursday that immediately had him giving the reporter a look of “Are you serious?” Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal asked…

President Barack Obama is a die-hard fan of rapper Kendrick Lamar. He’s already gone on record saying that “How Much a Dollar Cost” was his favorite song of 2015 and that To Pimp a Butterfly was the best album of 2015. So when the two got a chance to meet last fall, it was nothing short…

Maurice White, co-founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, has died after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. According to TMZ, White died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 74. As co-founder of the group, White also served as the band’s main songwriter and record producer and was co-lead singer with Philip Bailey. Our brother…

When was the last time you saw a movie about an African king that didn’t focus on corruption or war but instead featured a love story that supposedly “changed the world”?  That’s the reason British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo is excited about his leading role in the upcoming movie A United Kingdom. He opened up about…

Change is an integral part of every organization’s growth. Especially if you’re running the Beyoncé empire. According to Page Six, Queen Bey made huge personnel changes at Parkwood Entertainment—her managerial and production hub that oversees all of her projects, tours, albums, artist management, endorsements and film endeavors. She hired a corporate bigwig, Steve Pamon, who…

“This is a story about control. My control. Control of what I say. And control of what I do,” Janet Jackson stated in the first few minutes of the video for “Control.” Dressed all in black and with Jimmy Jam and his crew in the background, Jackson spoke about how she was taking over her…