In honor of Black History Month in 2015, The Urban Daily will highlight amazing moments in Black American sports and entertainment history. Each week, we’ll…

Common has won several awards, but never an Oscar. He talks to us on “The D.L. Hughley Show” about wanting to win an Academy Award over…

National

Predictably, after the swift and cutting backlash from the blinding whiteness of this year’s Oscar nominations – from the front lines of Twitter (see: #OscarsSoWhite) to…

If the director of ‘Selma’ had been nominated for Best Director in the reading of the nominations this morning, Ava DuVernay would have been the first African-American woman to ever be nominated in this category. But she wasn’t nominated. Nor were any of the actors from the movie. However, ‘Selma’ did receive a nod for Best […]

These little known facts about Selma might surprise you! Selma’s voting rights movement was quite unique, and Jasmine Sanders‘ list will inform you and have you prepared…

National

Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…

DL Hughley Show

So these movies didn’t quite get the recognition we think they deserved, but of course ” The D.L. Hughley Show” is here to give them…

What do you think about last night’s fashions?      

We’ll see lots of black faces on the red carpet at the Oscars this weekend. Checkout the lineup.

A Facebook post supporting Black films and artists, and calling out the racism embedded into the Academy Award nomination process, was removed by the social…