The opening scenes of the filmed version of the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” which started streaming on Disney+ this Independence Day weekend, pull you back in time to two distinct periods. The people onstage, in their breeches and brass-buttoned coats, belong to the New York of 1776. That i…
The Museum of the American Revolution wants to give everyone a taste of what it’s like to be in the room where it happens in a special conversation with national “Hamilton” tour member, Paul Oakley Stovall.
LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL player's activism.
LOS ANGELES — “Family Guy” voice actor Mike Henry said Friday he is stepping down from the role of Cleveland Brown on the Fox animated series.
Netflix will make the Spike Lee directed "Rodney King" available to stream for free, as part of its Black Lives Matter collection of films, TV shows and documentaries.
First Jimmy Fallon and now Jimmy Kimmel offers his apology for past blackface performances. Kimmel released a statement that began saying he was reluctant to apologize because it’s to the advantage of those who see apologies as weakness and root for racial division. Nonetheless, the ABC-TV l…
Jenny Slate has announced she will no longer voice the character of Missy Foreman-Greenwald, a young mixed-race girl on the animated comedy "Big Mouth."
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel issued an apology Tuesday for his "embarrassing" portrayals of Black celebrities.
Tyler Perry is stepping up in these turbulent times. The filmmaker and studio mogul is paying for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks. Brooks, a 27-year-old husband and father of four, was killed by Atlanta police after their interaction over a suspected drinking and driving violation. Brooks was…
NEW YORK — Gary Phillips, a prize-winning crime novelist from Los Angeles, grew up on TV shows that showed a world nothing like the one he lived in.
The Supreme Court's ruling Monday protecting gay and transgender workers from discrimination highlights the progress that's been made, and the work toward equality yet to be done. Those issues are also explored in a number of documentaries amid Pride month, including two upcoming ones of not…
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — TV One announced Monday the presentation of a virtual town hall to discuss the history, impact and legacy of Go-Go music. An esteemed panel will examine how the music serves as a platform for African Americans to address issues such as class struggles, gentrificatio…
NEW YORK — Drake is the leading nominee at the 2020 BET Awards, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary later this month.
NEW YORK — Queen Latifah has long been a champion for Black artists and storytellers.
The death of George Floyd at the hands of police has inspired renewed action against racism worldwide, but it has also resulted in some celebrities not quite getting the words right on social media. Actors Terry Crews and Mark Wahlberg are catching it on social media. First, Crews warned abo…
Following a petition urging ABC to address a lack of diversity on its enormously popular reality dating franchise, ABC has cast the first Black "Bachelor."
NEW YORK — The outcry for a Black “Bachelor” has never been louder, and some former show participants are supporting it.
NEW YORK — Spike Lee was just 10 when Muhammad Ali, in 1967, refused to be drafted into the Vietnam. It wasn’t his fight, Ali said then. The Vietnamese “never lynched me.”
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A few weeks after “A Raisin in the Sun” opened in New York in March 1959, making 29-year-old Lorraine Hansberry the first Black woman with a play produced on Broadway, a reporter for The New York Post asked what other projects she had in the works. For “Raisin,” she had drawn on her family’s…
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It’s a funny thing, Zooming with Spike Lee. He’s remote, confined within a box within a box on your computer screen, yet somehow undiminished.
A strange school year is coming to an end, giving way to an uncertain summer. More and more of the world is reopening for business, in hopes of returning to some semblance of normalcy.
There are more coronavirus shutdowns for our local entertainment scene. The Dell Music Center has officially canceled its Summer 2020 concert series, and the Odunde Festival 2020 will not take place this year. Pennsylvania is slowly relaxing the stay-at-home orders but only for certain areas…
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