The Chi-town rapper made the announcement on Twitter late last night.

Everyone has been wondering who the next James Bond will be, and there have been high hopes that he’d be someone black. Fans campaigned for Idris Elba to fill those martini glasses, but he quickly shot those requests. Then A$AP Rocky said he’d be perfect for the role, but, yeah, nah. Now, it’s reported that Selma‘s David […]

Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo are set to work on an upcoming movie about Hurricane Katrina. Taking a detour from the historic biopic Selma, their new film will be a fictional murder mystery romance set during the time of the life-changing storm, according to Variety. MUST SEE: ‘Selma’ Is Nominated For Best Picture Oscars 2015 DuVernay […]

Anthony Mackie has the answer to why, Selma director Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo were both overlooked for Oscar nominations: People are tired of discussing race! No seriously,…

Monday, MTV is turning off the color and broadcasting in black and white. The network will air a 12-hour block of programming without color, kicking…

Selma only scored two nods during today’s Academy Awards nominations announcement, leaving the film’s director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo out in the cold. Should we be surprised? Probably not. The first Black film (12 Years a Slave) won just last year, in the show’s 87-year existence. This year’s Academy Awards will be the whitest since 1998, with white […]

The Oscar nominations are in, and Selma has a chance to take the Academy’s highest honor. Although three-time film director, Ava DuVernay was not nominated for Best Director, her critically acclaimed film, Selma is nominated for Best Picture at the 2015 Academy Awards. The film also picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Song, for Common […]

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  Academy-award winning actress Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo are once again teaming up for the silver screen. The two are currently in talks to star in Disney’s Queen…

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Some names are easy to pronounce, and some just aren’t. There are certain celebrity names we get wrong all of the time, and we’re here to put an end to it. Here are 21 celeb names we pronounce wrong all of the time. Quvenzhane Wallis You might say: Qua-ven-zhane But it’s really: Qua-VARN-zhane Sidney Poitier You […]

Ava Duvernay’s “Selma” isn’t just another historical film that repeats information we’ve already read in textbooks about Martin Luther King Jr., the Harpo production introduces…

There’s a scene in “Selma” where Coretta Scott King (played by Carmen Ejogo) stares into the eyes of her cheating husband Martin Luther King Jr.…

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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 […]