By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cyntoia Brown, championed by celebrities as a symbol of unfair sentencing, was released early Wednesday from the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a man who had picked her up for sex at 16. Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, […]
By MARCELA ISAZA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey praised her late friend and idol, Toni Morrison, hailing the best-selling author’s “confidence and self-assuredness and nobility.” Winfrey and Morrison knew each other for more than 20 years, dating back to when Winfrey was so determined to learn the author’s unlisted phone number that […]
It happened! The history-making Black Lady Sketch Show premiered on HBO this past Friday and it didn’t disappoint. As promised it was a star-studded debut with a well-rounded collection of sketches about blackness, womanhood, beauty standards, and biters. The show takes on an interesting format in that it uses one sketch that features the women […]
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ”Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. Publisher Alfred A. […]
In a recent episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfield, behind the wheel of a 2004 Porsche Carerra GT, scooped up his legendary colleague, Eddie Murphy. They both bonded over being loners, completing their first impromptu performances on buses as kids and growing up personally and professionally in the Big Apple. As the […]
A$AP Rocky has just been released and sent back to the United States after being incarcerated in a Swedish prison for nearly a month. After an altercation in downtown Stockholm, he was charged with assaulting two men who were captured on video harassing the rapper and his friends. Despite being hit with headphones and followed […]
RYAN PEARSON and KATIE CAMPIONE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvel’s push for more women and people of color in its immensely popular film franchise is extending to behind the camera as it launches its next round of films after the massive success of “Avengers: Endgame.” Of the five films the superhero studio announced […]
Within the first 15 minutes of watching the Netflix documentary The Black Godfather I felt some kinda way about the titular man, Clarence Avant. I was trying to be open, suspend judgment, and really listen and learn about his life and legacy, but it proved to be a more difficult task for me than […]
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened. It flowed in small towns like Elaine, Arkansas, in medium-size places such as Annapolis, Maryland, and Syracuse, New York, and in big cities […]
We are in a golden age for black television. Storytellers like Kenya Barris, Ava DuVernay, Donald Glover, Lena Waithe, and more are turning the people and places of their lives and in their imaginations into shows and films that entertain, educate, and empower. Comedic content has also soared in popularity over the last several years […]