Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

In this March 15, 2014 file photo, CeeLo Green performs at Rachael Ray’s Feedback Party during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, ruled that Green will no longer have to report to a probation officer in a felony drug case because the Grammy winner had […]

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Nina Subin/Marvel Comics via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates has received another honor, an essay award from PEN. Coates’ “Between the World and Me” is an open letter to his son about race and police violence. It’s the winner of the $10,000 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the […]

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. (AP Photos/Todd Williamson and Matt Sayles) LAS VEGAS (AP) — From the bodacious bodies of “Baywatch” to the literary credentials of August Wilson’s “Fences,” Paramount Pictures has a diverse slate of films on its schedule. The studio teased some upcoming properties Monday at CinemaCon, kicking off the annual gathering of […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Nationally syndicated radio host Doug Banks, a longtime fixture in Chicago radio and television, died early Monday at age 57. In this Jan. 7, 2004 file photo, WBLS radio personality Doug Banks, left, responds to questions during a news conference in New York. Nationally syndicated radio host Banks, a longtime fixture in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — N.W.A. entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Friday, with the groundbreaking quintet that reflected the rough streets of Los Angeles in a style known as gangster rap defiantly refuting those who suggested rappers didn’t belong in the institution. Inductees MC Ren, from left, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and DJ […]

Director Spike Lee (left), and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. (AP Photos) If there are two things acclaimed director Spike Lee is passionate about, it’s Brooklyn and Black people. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has these two things in common with Lee, bringing the two to together for a recent interview courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. Lee […]

After having their hopes raised by Janet Jackson’s 2015 return to music, fans of the music icon may be in for another disappointment. Jackson announced her 11th studio album and world tour in May 2015; after a seven-year absence from the entertainment scene, thrilling deprived fans all over the world. But the singer announced this […]

Kerry Washington arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Confirmation” at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, March 31, 2016. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Between her hit TV show “Scandal,” now in its fifth season, and her highly anticipated portrayal of Anita Hill in an upcoming HBO movie on the controversial confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme […]

Interim UM Systems President Mike Middleton, left, introduces filmmaker Spike Lee before the premiere of “2 Fists Up”, Spike Lee’s documentary about protests at the University of Missouri, at the Missouri Theatre on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, in Columbia, Mo. Lee worked with ESPN to make the documentary, which examines how the Black Lives Matter […]

In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, Heather Headley walks the post-show red carpet for the finale of “America’s Got Talent” in New York. Headley will replace Jennifer Hudson in Broadway’s current revival of “The Color Purple.” (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Tony- and Grammy-winner Heather Headley will replace Jennifer Hudson […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leon Haywood, the silky smooth R&B singer-songwriter and producer whose 1975 single “I Want’a Do Something Freaky to You” was famously sampled by Dr. Dre and others, has died. He was 74. Haywood’s godson Darnell “OG Cuicide” Price said he died in his sleep Tuesday in Los Angeles. Haywood’s “I Want’a […]