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Sidney Poitier will receive the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ highest honor, at the film academy’s main awards ceremony in London Feb. 14. The award will coincide with the anniversary of Poitier’s first major BAFTA award for his 1958 role in The Defiant Ones. Throughout his career, Poitier has received…

Some may say Run-DMC single-handedly put hip-hop on the map back in the ’80s. And with their rise back then, they accomplished many firsts as a rap group. Run-DMC were the first to have a No. 1 R&B-charting rap album, the first rap act to chart in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 more than once.…

Sylvester Stallone apparently ran back onstage at the 2016 Golden Globes and thanked Creed director Ryan Coogler and the film’s lead actor, Michael B. Jordan, after forgetting to do so during his acceptance speech. Stallone caught a lot of backlash, especially by those who felt it was particularly important to acknowledge the two black men who…

Kat Graham has booked the role of Jada Pinkett Smith in the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me, Variety reports. Both ladies certainly favor each other. But aside from looks, Pinkett Smith was such an important person in Shakur’s development as a teen. We’re sure Graham is going to bring it in her portrayal of…

You see Taraji P. Henson gracing the covers of magazines and recently winning a Golden Globe for her work as Cookie on the hit TV show Empire, but behind every success story are years and years of hard work. Nothing is more demonstrative of Henson’s journey than an audition tape that recently surfaced, showing her…

Elle magazine shone a light on five badass actresses in television who are slaying dragons and taking prisoners in the process. So of course, Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson were included in that mix. Priyanka Chopra, Julia Louis Dreyfus and Olivia Wilde are the other women featured. Each actress spoke a bit about her…

It seems that a bunch of women hopped on their laptops the minute they saw first lady Michelle Obama come sashaying through the Capitol for the State of the Union address Tuesday night, wearing a body-conscious dress that was absolutely stunning. It was a marigold Narciso Rodriguez “sleeveless banded-bodice midi dress” that retailed for $2,095…

Let Kevin Hart tell it, and Lady Gaga might’ve been severely injured at the Golden Globes if he hadn’t saved her life.  Hart spilled the beans about the incident during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He could hardly keep his composure as he told the story, so it’s a good chance that there’s…

“With Leah finishing her last treatment last night, I can really say my daughter BEAT CANCER!” That’s how NFL player Devon Still, a defensive tackle for the Houston Texans, began an Instagram post that went on to describe his 5-year-old daughter Leah Still’s journey battling, and apparently defeating, stage 4 neuroblastoma, a form of cancer.…

Editor’s note: This post contains social media messages that some may find offensive. Rapper-actor-mogul 50 Cent is riding an emotional roller coaster over the lack of recognition that his hit TV show, Power, gets from the Hollywood machine, or the powers that be. He vents about all of this from time to time on Instagram.…