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After their tryst, Lucious promised Cookie he would ditch Anika.  Cookie pitched an idea to make Lucious “immortal,” and the two agreed to produced a legacy documentary and song featuring the entire Lyon family.  Lucious hired Ryan Morgan to shoot the White Party and the legacy documentary. MUST SEE: 6 Things Every ‘Empire’ Fan Needs To […]

From the early ’90s to about a decade onwards, comedian Chris Tucker was on top of the world. His high-pitched and high-speed style of comedy branded him an appealing comedic foil in many a movie. But now he’s looking to make his way back into the spotlight proper with an upcoming Netflix-produced stand-up special. After the world was […]

Movies

Between Belle and Beyond The Lights, British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw had a productive 2014 in film. She has even more coming down the pipe in 2015, including a part in the sci-fi flick Jupiter Ascending starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis.      TheWrap reports that Mbatha-Raw has another film set for 2016: she recently agreed to co-star alongside Matthew McConaughey in the film The […]

Movies

David Oyelowo  was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the film Selma, and it looks like his 2015 will be even busier. Variety reports that Oyelowo is in talks to starring alongside Oscar-nominated actress Lupita Nyong’o  in the cinematic adaptation of author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, a story of a Nigerian immigrant couple […]

“Selma” director Ava DuVernay has been getting a lot flack for her film, mainly for the portrayals of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Historians are ripping apart the film and saying that certain scenes in the movie were fabricated, including J. Edgar Hoover’s attempt to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. MUST SEE: 5 Reasons To Be Excited […]

When popular actor Samuel L. Jackson speaks, people definitely listen. Jackson’s liberal opinions have a group of porn actors boycotting mad because they feel he promotes porn piracy. At a movie press conference, the actor was asked what he thought the greatest achievement in in pop culture. Without batting an eyelash or taking a second […]

Television

Bill Cosby took to the stage to perform stand up in Ontario, Canada as if he’s not in the middle of a media storm of sexual assault allegations mounting against him. The was the first of three shows Cosby has in Canada. As many as 10 of those shows has been cancelled because of the […]

Actor Samuel L. Jackson is the epitome of cool. He’s so cool he made the comedic angst of the hit sitcom “Boy Meets World” and turn it into material for a Slam poetry competition. He did so on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon. In the poem Sam Jackson spits, he gives the plot of […]

Actor and reading advocate LeVar Burton is a household name for many reasons. From his roles in “Roots” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation” to his 80s beloved show “Reading Rainbow” (that just recently went through a $5 million Kickstarter revival), he’s a pop culture staple. In addition, his role on the board of directors of the AIDS Research […]

Television

“Law & Order: SVU” producers have incorporated two of the biggest stories of Darren Sharper‘s sexual assaults and leaked surveillance footage of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee–on an upcoming “SVU” episode titled “American Disgrace” and we’re like, spare us. In said episode, a basketball star–Shakir “The Shark” Wilkins–is accused of rape by a PR employee from […]

Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson plays a supportive role in the new “Robocop” reboot, but according to the star of the film Joel Kinnaman, Samuel L. Jackson steals the show. Kinnaman plays the titular character who’s killed and brought back to life by futuristic technology that turns him into a cyborg. Jackson plays a […]

Actor Samuel L. Jackson has been in some of the most beloved and most hated movies ever to come out of the United States. Therefore, he is probably one of the most recognizable black actors of our time. Well, that may be true except for one entertainment news reporter. Samuel L. Jackson flipped out on […]