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Taraji P. Henson is making her way to Abbott Elementary. Henson is set to play Vanetta, who is Janine’s mother. The casting of Henson was revealed Saturday during the Paley Center for Media’s PaleyFest LA event. “I was so excited to join Quinta and the amazing cast!” Henson said in a special video message. According […]
Taraji P. Henson has made a public show of support for her former Empire co-star Jussie Smollett, who this week was sentenced in connection with staging a 2019 hate crime. Sunday, Henson shared an image showing the #FREEJUSSIE hashtag to Instagram, saying in the caption that the sentence (which included 150 days in jail) wasn’t aligned with the level […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Taraji P. Henson recently opened up about her past experience with domestic violence. On Friday, the 51-year-old actress shared a sneak peak […]
50 Cent and Power Book III: Raising Kanan star Patina Miller engaged in a back-and-forth on Instagram after the hip-hop mogul compared the actress to Taraji P. Henson. 50 took to Instagram on Tuesday to compare Patina Miller’s role on Power Book III to Henson’s performance as Cookie in the hit Fox series Empire. “You know i don’t […]
On Tuesday, Michelle Obama and other co-chairs of the When We All Vote organization dropped an open letter urging Americans to put their support behind the For the People Act. At the moment, 43 states across the country are considering an estimated 253 proposals that could dramatically limit voting rights and access to millions of […]
For the latest episode of Taraji P. Henson’s Facebook show Peace of Mind, Asian Doll sat down for a heartbreaking interview about losing her ex King Von. Following Von’s death in a fatal shooting in Atlanta in November, Asian Doll has been outspoken regarding her grieving process. In the interview, she described him as her “first […]
Fox will continue to invest in the extension of the Empire televisionary universe, as Thursday brought word that a spinoff starring Taraji P. Henson is officially on the network’s agenda. Henson will again take on the role of Cookie Lyon for the series, which the Hollywood Reporter‘s Lesley Goldberg said Thursday is now in development. […]
Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Pharrell Williams are among the high-profile celebrities who are demanding justice for Danroy “DJ” Henry, a Black college student who was killed by a white officer nearly a decade ago. The stars sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice this week, asking authorities to reopen the investigation into Henry’s fatal shooting. According to People […]
When Cookie talks, you listen. Taraji P. Henson, star of Empire, Baby Boy, and other classics, joins the pod to talk about her new Netflix film, Coffee and Kareem, as well as his first time in the director’s chair, the only time she missed work as an actress, and her dreams of going international. Later, Frazier […]
Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician known for her essential work on the nation’s first mission to space and the first landing on the moon, has died at age 101. Johnson was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, also the title of a nonfiction book. “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss […]
