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Madonna’s ’80s bop “Like a Virgin,” John Lennon’s classic hit “Imagine,” and the Queen of Xmas Mariah Carey’s holiday staple “All I Want for Christmas Is You” are officially inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The Library of Congress announced it’s adding 25 songs into the catalog on Wednesday. The tunes are deemed “audio treasures […]
Is there anything Rick Ross can’t do? The Miami rapper added to his growing resume when he appeared on the Queen Latifah-starring TV show The Equalizer, in what was his major network acting debut. Rozay took to Instagram, where he shared a clip from the episode in which he plays the rapper Gregory “Dilemma” Blickman, who’s incarcerated and attempting to […]
Queen Latifah has shown herself able to do whatever she puts her mind to. The multi-hyphenate is a hip-hop legend and, as an actress, she can handle weighty dramatics as well as riffing. But there’s one arena where we’ve seen only little of Latifah: action. Outside of her doomed roughneck Cleo character in Set It Off, […]
David Schwimmer recently proposed an all-black version of his blockbuster NBC sitcom Friends, which sounds like a cool idea at first — until you remember Friends is basically the all-white reboot of the Fox sitcom Living Single. “Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends,” Schwimmer told The Guardian in an interview, […]
CBS has ordered the pilot for an Equalizer reboot, which will star and be executive produced by Queen Latifah, Deadline reports. Latifah will play a mysterious person who uses her extensive skills to help those in need, similar to the character Robert McCall, which was recently made popular by Denzel Washington in the two Antoine Fuqua-directed Equalizer films. The Equalizer started off as a TV series […]
Issa Rae is in the early development stages on her remake of the 1996 cult classic Set It Off, Variety reports. Issa will produce and possibly star in the film. Set It Off told the story of four friends who turned to robbing a string of banks amid frustration over their low-income jobs, but aside from being well recieved during the time of […]
For the first time in VMAs history, the Moonperson landed in New Jersey. The 2019 awards show went down Monday night at the Prudential Center in Newark, where Garden State natives like the Jonas Brothers, Halsey, Ice-T, and Victor Cruz gathered to recognize the biggest names in the biz as well as Jersey’s place in music history. “New Jersey has […]
Rapsody has spent the last several months putting her fans on notice: “A wave is coming.” On Thursday, the North Carolina rapper came through with her 16-track studio album Eve. The project includes the records “Sojourner” with J. Cole and “Ibtihaj,” featuring GZA and D’Angelo. Eve also boasts guest appearances by Queen Latifah, JID, SiR, […]
Queen Latifah said she will continue to support embattled Empire star Jussie Smollett—at least for now. During a recent interview with Zainab Salbi, Latifah explained why she refuses to turn her back on Smollett, despite the reports that the actor staged his own hate crime earlier this year in Chicago. “Until somebody can show me some proof […]
Although the Lumiere Brothers released the first motion picture in 1895, it took at least 30 years for the first black person, Stepin Fetchit, to earn screen credit. Later, Hattie McDaniel would become the first African-American person to win an Academy Award, and 24 years after that, Sidney Poitier would win his, becoming the first African-American […]
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