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Entertainment, Entertainment

These Black Celebs Slayed The Red Carpet at The NAACP Image Awards

Chloe and Halle Bailey, Kerry Washington and more of our faves showed up and showed out. Let’s take a look!

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

February 22, 2025
Beauty + Style, Fashion

Everyone is Talking About This Sexy, Stunning Gabrielle Union Lewk From Paris Fashion Week

“Sheesh,” wrote Union’s husband Dwyane Wade in an appreciation post he dropped in his Instagram stories.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

January 28, 2025
Entertainment, Television

Robin Givens, Brian White and Essence Atkins Serve Up Ambitions for OWN

Are you ready for some Ambitions? That’s the question super-producer Will Packer (Girls Trip, Ride Along, Think Like a Man and OWN reality dating show Ready to Love) and Oprah Winfrey’s OWN ask with their brand-new primetime soap starring Robin Givens, Brian White and Essence Atkins. With a lead-in from Tyler Perry’s The Have and…

By

Ronda Racha Penrice

Published

June 18, 2019
10 Things We Can’t Wait to See in the New TV Season

Every year around this time, the big four broadcast networks—ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox (I don’t count the CW, since it dropped Girlfriends)—make a big deal of trotting out their new shows for the fall TV season. And while many network executives seem to have gotten the memo about diversity—except, apparently, CBS, whose president has…

By

Genetta M. Adams

Published

September 16, 2016