Entertainment

Women are continuing their reign over prime-time television.  According to Entertainment Weekly, Being Mary Jane—the BET drama that follows TV journalist Mary Jane (played by Gabrielle Union) as she juggles career, family and her love life—is gaining two new stars this upcoming season: singer and actress Jill Scott and acting veteran Loretta Devine.  Devine will…

The White House’s response to news that Kanye West is throwing his hat into the ring for the 2020 presidential election is, if nothing else, a testament to how creative the rapper is.  According to the Associated Press, when asked about West’s intentions to run in 2020, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that…

To label an organization a “hate group” isn’t something that should be taken lightly, especially in the U.S. But over the last year, with the rise in the Black Lives Matter movement, many people have tried to label the organization and those who stand with it as such. By definition, provided by the Southern Poverty…

At this point, Idris Elba probably doesn’t even want to play James Bond. During a year of speculation, Elba has continually denied even being in the running, but now the author of the most recent Bond book, Trigger Mortis, has really stuck his foot in his mouth. Anthony Horowitz, in an interview with the Daily…

During Monday night’s first round of the U.S. Open, Alec Baldwin referred to Serena Williams’ opponent, 86th-ranked Russian Vitalia Diatchenko, as a “crunchy hors d’oeuvre Serena is chewing on.” And that wasn’t the only odd thing about the night. Josh Groban opened the ceremony with a song boring enough to put the crowd to sleep, but…

It was the New York Daily News that reported that it had obtained court documents showing how Terrence Howard’s current wife, Mira Pak, had secretly filed for divorce in March of this year, and that the couple’s divorce was finalized in July.  The news was a surprise because she and Howard had just gotten married…

Hulk Hogan is on a redemption spree. He’s trying to redeem himself after being caught on tape having an n-word tirade about black people. During an appearance on Monday’s Good Morning America, Hogan stated to ABC News’ Amy Robach, “I’m not a racist. I never should have said that. It was wrong.” If you recall,…

Lauryn Hill’s debut performance in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday was supposed to take place three months earlier, in May, but unfortunately she was a no-show. Hill had released a video apologizing to her Nigerian fans for not being able to make it, and explained how she was at the airport for seven hours trying to get…

It’s not a fluke, an aberration or something that nostalgic hip-hop heads supported in flocks just because they were curious to see how one of the founding groups of hip-hop was portrayed on the big screen. That the film Straight Outta Compton is the No. 1 movie at the box office for the third week…

Imagine a video about the Holocaust starring Hitler as the main character. That probably wouldn’t go over too well, now, would it? Now imagine a video game about the slave trade and the atrocities millions of African slaves faced. You’d also think that would never fly in today’s world, right? Well, you’d be wrong. In…