black celebrities
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Tiffany Haddish Is a Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Cover of the Hollywood Reporter
Tiffany Haddish has been steadily rising in the ranks of Hollywood royalty since her breakout role in 2017’s Girls Trip—and an accompanying series of hilarious late-night appearances. But industry staple the Hollywood Reporter captured Haddish as we’ve never seen her before for its June 13 issue: looking ethereal among lush greenery in a garden-themed shoot,…
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Niecy Nash (Finally) Wins It All With Claws
Niecy Nash is full of surprises. Last summer the former host of the HGTV reality show Clean House helped change the TV landscape as star of the wacky TNT dramedy Claws. Nash’s character, Desna, owner of the fictional nail salon Nail Artisan of Manatee County in Palmetto, Fla., found herself wrapped up in a very…
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz on Cover of Cultured Magazine as a Black Panther Power Couple
Alicia Keys-Dean and her producer hubby Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean look like a true power couple on the cover of Cultured Magazine. Black Power, that is. The cover is a re-creation of a 1970 photograph of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and then-wife Kathleen Neal Cleaver taken by photographer Gordon Parks. The accompanying spread is…
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Bow Down: Tracee Ellis Ross Covers Vanity Fair’s Special Awards Issue
“The business is finally catching up to the genius that is Tracee,” says Kerry Washington. “Genius” is an apt word to describe Tracee Ellis Ross, who, after eight seasons on Girlfriends and four on Black-ish (which turned a dramatic corner at the end of its last season, thanks in part to Ross’ directorial debut on…
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Wendy, How You Doin’? Wendy Williams Does It for the ’Gram in a New Photo Shoot
Wendy, is that you? Wendy Williams is looking better than ever in her latest photo shoot, posted to Instagram on Thursday. The controversial talk show host was photographed by photographer and art director Robert Ector. Ector caught all of Williams’ best angles and likely edited the crap out of these photos. Honestly, some of these…
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What a (Wo)Man! The 2018 Billboard Awards Were Dedicated to the Ladies
“Hey, ladies—all the ladies—louder now, help me out. Come on, all the ladies … ” So sang rap royalty Salt-N-Pepa when they took over the stage at the Billboard Awards Sunday night to sing several of their most memorable hits. Dressed in an updated riff on their ’90s finest, their performance culminated in a reunion…
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The French Connection: The Cannes Film Festival Closes on a High Note
While several of the entertainment industry’s elite flocked to England on Saturday to celebrate the royal wedding, other members of Hollywood royalty concluded their takeover of the French Riviera for the closing events of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. This year’s festival had a strong streak of activist energy, marked by multiple festival-endorsed demonstrations and…
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Fashion and Fascinators: The High Style of Britain’s Blackest Royal Wedding (to Date)
It was a day seemingly made for happily ever after. On Saturday, Meghan Markle’s fairy tale came true when, at last, she married her Prince Charming Harry. The traditionally drizzly English skies gave way to dazzling sunshine, and as many anticipated, the ceremony was as refreshingly unexpected as the pairing of the biracial American actress…
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Red Table Talk: Jada Pinkett Smith Starts a Multigenerational Dialogue
Just in time for Mother’s Day, one of Hollywood’s most famous moms is inviting us to her table—the red table, that is—for Red Table Talk, a new Facebook series created and hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, featuring her 17-year-old daughter, Willow, and mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris. “Motherhood and everything that comes with it is our red-hot…
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Met Gala 2018: Did Vogue Catch Your Fave Live on Camera?
Go down a wormhole, but make it fashion. This was pretty much how I spent Tuesday night, watching video after video on Vogue’s YouTube channel, where all of our Met Gala faves were featured talking fashion, true confessions, and their takes on the night’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Let’s start with…