Entertainment

Apparently, Universal Pictures has put a new twist on #OscarsSoWhite and invented #TrailersSoWhite in the marketing of Straight Outta Compton.  At a South by Southwest panel, Universal’s executive vice president of digital marketing, Doug Neil, said that different people saw different trailers for the movie on Facebook.  According to Business Insider, if you weren’t black…

There’s the saying that there’s no such thing as a stupid question. But when you’re a sports reporter, it seems as though that doesn’t apply. After Yale’s basketball team beat Baylor’s, Taurean Prince had to sit through questions from the media. Of course, Prince wasn’t happy about his team losing to a No. 12 seeded…

Rihanna has reportedly done what most business-minded artists are eager to do at some point in their careers: own the masters of their recordings. Masters are typically owned by the record label to which an artist is signed. But Rihanna apparently made that move recently, acquiring “the masters of all her previous albums,” Vogue reports.  During…

If you’re standing before a person with your fate in his or her hands, why not sing a song expressing how sorry you are? That’s exactly what Brian Earl Taylor, 21, did before being sentenced last week in a Michigan court for unlawful imprisonment and carrying a concealed weapon. According to Ann Arbor News, Taylor belted…

Robert L. Johson’s company RLJ Entertainment is the distributor for Nina, the controversial upcoming Nina Simone biopic starring Zoe Saldana. Johnson, who is also the founder of BET, had a few words about the controversy in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. The film has caught flak mainly because Saldana was cast as the lead.…

At 45 years old, Naomi Campbell has been slaying the runway since she was in her teens. But you have to wonder where she got those genes from. Meet Naomi’s 64-year-old mother, Valerie Morris Campbell. Can you say “stunner”? Naomi posted photos from her mother’s recent photo shoot for Dolce & Gabbana, and she’s the…

Instead of listening to Meagan Good and her husband DeVon Franklin’s message about God and how they turned to celibacy while they were dating, the actress says, some Christians are too busy judging her choice of clothing. Last month Franklin and Good were speaking at a church in Los Angeles when a woman got up…

Michelle Obama’s appearance at Wednesday’s South by Southwest was the talk of the music festival. The first lady was joined by Grammy winners Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott to promote the Let Girls Learn initiative. And she also talked politics. If you ever thought you’d see Michelle Obama run for president, sadly, it ain’t gonna happen.…

As Empire prepares to return later this month, Jussie Smollett visited Stephen Colbert Wednesday night and talked about his real family versus his TV family. Now, just like the Lyon family on Empire, the Smollett family sticks together. And Jussie Smollett says he thinks his real-life family would definitely open up a can of whoop ass on the Lyon…

There’s the saying, “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” but one Twitter user felt it was her right to put a white girl in check after she called her “n—ga.”  A Twitter user using the handle Aleeyah405, from Oklahoma, uploaded a video of her confrontation with an unnamed girl. According to a series of tweets, Aleeyah405…