Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A family outing tied to giving her 11-year-old son and his friend a history lesson on hip-hop turned into a disappointing experience for singer Solange Knowles when she says a group of White women demanded she sit during a concert and then threw a lime at her. Singer Solange Knowles. (AP […]

TORONTO (AP) — Living partly in the Ugandan capital of Kampala where she runs a film school, the Indian-born filmmaker Mira Nair is regularly surrounded by lives she rarely sees reflected back by the movies. Lupita Nyong’o, Mira Nair and David Oyelowo pose for photos as they arrive for “Queen of Katwe” at the 2016 […]

ATLANTA (AP) — The legendary Dungeon Family music collective, which birthed a generation of hip-hop stars, is reuniting on stage Saturday for the first time in a decade, and they’re not looking to stop there. They want to create new songs and eventually collaborate for their own big festival or tour. First, they’ll perform together […]

Morris Chestnut has been appearing in television and movies for the past two decades. Morris Chestnut (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) In 2014, he shot the feature film “Heist” (aka Bus 657) opposite Robert De Niro and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, as well as “The Perfect Guy” with Sanaa Lathan. The year before, he starred in “The Best Man […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss District of Columbia and Miss Tennessee won the first night of preliminaries in the Miss America competition Tuesday. In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 photograph, Miss District of Columbia, Cierra Jackson is introduced during Miss America Pageant arrival ceremonies in Atlantic City. Jackson, never missed a day of school […]

Despite widespread attention over diversity in the movie business, a new study finds that little is changing in Hollywood for women, minorities, LGBT people and others who continue to find themselves on the outside of an industry where researchers say inequality is “the norm.” A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn., PRNewswire/ — CMT’s series Nashville, is conducting a nationwide search for a 21-26 YEAR OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE MUSICIAN. The fifth season of the series is currently in production in Nashville, TN. To be cast: CLAY, a young African American musician in his mid-twenties who is destined for great things.  He is a […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even Beyoncé needs to slow down every once in a while. Under doctor’s orders for vocal rest, the superstar singer has postponed the Sept. 7 MetLife Stadium stop of her Formation World Tour until Oct. 7, according to a statement released Monday. Beyonce performs during the Formation World Tour at Stadio San […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a rape survivor, victim’s advocate and an actress in “The Birth of a Nation,” Gabrielle Union has found herself in an impossible position. Union recently, along with much of the world, learned that her film’s director, writer, producer and star, Nate Parker, was accused and acquitted of rape 17 years […]

As the United States faces incidents of terrorism and mass shootings more frequently, actor Morgan Freeman is set to explore the underlying causes of such violent extremism during the upcoming season of the Science Channel’s documentary series “Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.” “Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman” Filming of an episode dealing with […]