Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rihanna is checking into the final season of “Bates Motel” as Marion Crane. In this Feb. 12, 2016 file photo, Rihanna attends the JFENTY PUMA by Rihanna fashion show in New York. Rihanna is checking into the final season of “Bates Motel” as Marion Crane. The cast and crew of the […]

A recent episode of a Nickelodeon cartoon show featured the station’s first animated interracial gay couple. In the episode of “Loud House,” the show’s main character, Lincoln Loud, invites his African American friend Clyde McBride over to a sleep over. Clyde’s same-sex parents Harold, played by Wayne Brady, and Howard, played by Michael McDonald, share […]

Johnetta Boone shines again! She earned her stars as a costume designer for films such as “For Colored Girls,” “Cadillac Records” and “The Notebook.” Boone now shines bright as costume designer for the Oprah Winfrey Network’s new drama series “Greenleaf.” A Washington, D.C. native, Boone studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New […]

R&B group The O’Jays are decrying the use of their song “Love Train” during the Republican National Convention, including a version remixed as “Trump Train,” without the consent of the band. In this Sept. 23, 2004 file photo, original members of the O’Jays, Eddie Levert, center, and Walter Williams, right, pose with their newer band […]

Born in Kenya in 1965 to Ruth Baker and Barack Obama, Sr., Mark Obama Ndesandjo is an accomplished musician, author, artist and businessman. Prior to settling in Shenzhen, China, he earned a BS in Physics from Brown University, an MS in Physics from Stanford, and an MBA from Emory. President Barack Obama with his brother, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay’s “The 13th,” a documentary about racial inequality and mass incarceration in the United States, will open the 54th New York Film Festival. In this Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, file photo, director Ava Duvernay poses for photographers on the red carpet for the film Selma at the 2015 Berlinale Film […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The film academy is taking more steps to diversify, with three women and two Black filmmakers newly elected to leadership positions. In this March 2, 2014 file photo, an Oscar statue is displayed at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Six months after announcing intentions to double the […]

MERIGOLD, Miss. (AP) — Willie Seaberry, owner of Po’ Monkey’s juke joint in Bolivar County, has died. Deputy Coroners Ted Ray and Murry Roark tell The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/29Ch7BY) they found Seaberry late Thursday in his back bedroom at the lounge. Roark said it appears he had a heart attack earlier this week. He was 75. […]

Television show host Wendy Williams is facing a backlash across the media spectrum for her controversial comments about HBCUs and the NAACP. Television talk show host Wendy Williams. (Diane Bondareff/Invision/AP). On July 6, during the hot topics segment of her show, she brought up TV actor and activist Jesse Williams’ speech about racial inequality at […]

“212” rapper Azealia Banks has not only publicly admitted to bleaching her skin, she defends her choice. After being banned from Twitter for several controversial comments, the artist turned to Facebook Live to reveal the reason behind altering her skin color. Rapper Azealia Banks. (Rich Fury/Invision/AP) On July 1, Banks told her followers: “I don’t […]