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Chadwick Boseman has portrayed some of the greatest historical black figures, from Jackie Robinson to James Brown, and now he’s set to portray Thurgood Marshall in a new Reginald Hudlin film. Hudlin’s Marshall, described as a courtroom thriller, focuses on a case early in the career of the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court.…

Domestic violence doesn’t discriminate—meaning that it doesn’t just plague women who are seemingly insecure, from working-class backgrounds or don’t feel great about themselves physically. All kinds of women can find themselves subjected to abusive partners.  That’s why it’s super important that Christina Milian, a beautiful woman by most standards, revealed during an episode of her…

Regina King was one-third of the #BlackGirlsRock trifecta that captured our hearts the night of the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards when she won. The other two winners were Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba. A part of King’s appeal was that her Emmy win was a long time coming. She’s been a mainstay on film and…

Television musicals are starting to be the thing, now that The Wiz Live! did so well. And I’m not talking about any ol’ musical, but productions reimagined with African-American images.  According to Shadow and Act, Fox is teaming up with Tyler Perry to bring Jesus Christ’s last days on Earth to television in the form…

During Tuesday night’s CNN GOP debate, in between the simultaneous tweets about the absurdity and ridiculousness of what was being said, there was one hashtag that stood out and gained traction on social media. #WhitesAgainstTrump, created by Heather Bentley last week, immediately trended after comedian W. Kamau Bell posted a tweet and article using the…

It’s looking like television and film executives learned a thing or two from the success of Dope, the coming-of-age story of three teenagers enthralled by the world of early 1990s hip-hop in California. VH1 has an original movie coming out in early January called The Breaks, which follows the journey of three individuals trying to…

If you’ve ever stood in front of your television and tried to wine it back real low like that dancer in Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time” video during the dance sequence toward the end, or re-created the dance sequence in Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody” video for a high school talent show, then you’re already familiar with choreographer…

On Saturday, Nicki Minaj is scheduled to perform at a holiday show in Angola for the Unitel company, according to a post on her Facebook page. But a human rights organization is pleading with the rapper to back out of the show. The Human Rights Foundation says Unitel is controlled by the family of dictator…

Who knew that singing could get you out of a traffic ticket? For one motorist in Orlando, Fla., having talent paid off. T.J. Bristol can sing. And it was that voice that got him out of a ticket. Bristol uploaded his traffic stop to his Facebook page, and of course he recorded everything with his selfie…

Michael Jordan proved to be a man of his word Tuesday when he donated the profits from a recent lawsuit to 23 Chicago nonprofit organizations. Jordan won an $8.9 million settlement after a jury decided that supermarket chain Dominick’s, as well as its subsidiary Jewel-Osco, used Jordan’s name and likeness for an advertisement he did…