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There has never been a black thespian on Broadway playing the role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical Phantom of the Opera. Until…

Bill Bellamy is coming for Tom Joyner’s crown. He’s trying to become the hardest working man in show business. He’s on Centric hosting Comedy All-Stars…

Omar Epps may have a hit show in the new ABC series Resurrection but all anybody wanted to talk about this week was the supposed…

Actor Omar Epps appeared on The View on Friday to promote his new ABC show Resurrection. But what really got people talking was his outfit…

Last year was supposed to be a banner film for Black filmmakers. Fruitvale Station, The Butler, and 12 Years a Slave were released and their…

Before there was swagger, there was suave and men like Billy Dee Williams had it. These days, suave men are few and far between, but…

Actor Wendell Pierce is best known for his work as Detective Bunk Moreland on “The Wire” but after “Four” that could change. The versatile actor…

Jamie Foxx snd Channing Tatum seem like a comic match and in “White House Down” that potential is on display. Although it’s an action movie,…

The good news? The Hunger Games made $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third-best debut in North American box office history. The bad news, however, reflects a level of idiocy that we weren’t really expecting. Now as you may know, Katniss, the main character in the book and film, […]

Add “For Colored Girls” piece of man meat Omari Hardwick to the Hollyweird unemployment line right behind Boris Kodjoe. TNT has pulled the plug on “Dark Blue,” which wrapped it’s second season on air on September 15. When the cable channel renewed its other shows, including ‘The Closer,’ ‘Leverage,’ ‘Hawthorne,’ and the two freshmen series […]

Oscar contenders are just lining up at the starting gate for the annual run for the gold for the February ceremony. There’s a real possibility, that for the first time since the 73rd Oscars 10 years ago, there will be no black nominees in any of the acting categories. In fact, there are virtually no […]

Were the Emmys just a little too colorless for you? Well, they certainly were for actress Regina King, who, to add insult to injury, was captioned as an attendee though she wasn’t even there. The actress who was? “True Blood’”s Rutina Wesley – hardly a lookalike. Fortunately for King – and all of us – […]