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After dominating the rap music scene the past three years, Cardi B now feels emboldened to take over the big screen in 2021. Cardi, 27, has landed her first leading role in the upcoming comedy film Assisted Living about a criminal who goes into hiding to evade the police and her former crew, Variety reports. Paramount,…

Valarie Pettiford is an award-winning actor, dancer and singer who earned a Tony nomination for her performance on Broadway in Fosse. The multifaceted entertainer has stepped into savage mode through her character Charlotte Duncan in Carl Weber’s “The Family Business” on BET+. During an interview with rolling out, Pettiford dishes about the show’s second season,…

Raven Goodwin has been cast to star in the upcoming biopic of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar. According to Deadline, the indie film will be called Behind The Smile and is being produced by Hillionaire Productions and Global Genesis Group. McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for…

Tiffany Haddish turned down an approach to host the 2021 Grammys Premiere Ceremony because she wouldn’t be paid. The Girl’s Trip actress was asked to present the three-hour event — which is where the bulk of the Recording Academy’s 83 trophies are handed out before the televised main show — but was also warned her…

Cynthia Erivo is to star in and produce a film based on the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The 33-year-old actress will appear in the movie based on Egbado princess who was born Omoba Aina. She was “gifted” to Queen Victoria in 1850, taken to England and renamed Sarah Forbes Benetta. The Queen’s patronship put…

Jada Pinkett Smith is set to star in the upcoming Netflix drama Redd Zone. The Girls Trip star will play the role of Tia Magee in the movie based on the true story of a single mother, “who helps her sons and their high school football teammates, “The Bros,” heal after the murder of their…

Keke Palmer has polycystic ovary syndrome. The Hustlers star has revealed she has been suffering from the condition — which can cause irregular periods, facial hair growth and pregnancy struggles — for a number of years but was only recently diagnosed. Taking to Instagram, she wrote: “Hey you guys, for some of you this may…

Taraji P. Henson confessed she was “so happy” to be “off the couch” as she hosted the American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The “Empire” star celebrated by doing Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s famous “WAP” dance as she opened the awards show over the weekend, joking her deodorant had “expired” because…

Halle Berry‘s first orgasm was when she was 11. The Catwoman actress had no problem dishing about her first experience of exploring her sexuality and pleasuring herself when she and her friend, Lindsay Flores, were asked a series of sex-related questions for their “Bad & Booshy” series on Instagram. Berry recalled: “I remember my first…

Zendaya found the events leading up to the Black Lives Matter movement “traumatic.” The Greatest Showman star has praised the “inspiring” creativity and ingenuity that has come from this time but it has taught her how “important” it is to “take care of themselves.” She said: “The level of creativity and ingenuity, in this time,…

Alycia Pascaul-Pena

“Saved By The Bell” not only gets a reboot but an upgrade. Alycia Pascual-Peña stars in the modern version of the 1990s classic teenage sitcom. Like the original, the new series centers around the lives of a diverse group of friends at fictional Bayside High School. In an interview with rolling out, Pascual-Peña, who was…

Angela Bassett will return to the Mission: Impossible series. The 62-year-old actress played CIA Director Erika Sloane in the 2018 film Mission: Impossible – Fallout and has confirmed that she will once again appear in the Tom Cruise-led action franchise. However, Bassett did not reveal if she would return for the seventh or eighth movie, both…

Kerry Washington has defended Eva Longoria after claims she had been dismissive toward Black women. The 43-year-old actress has backed her friend after the backlash, which came in response to comments she made on MSNBC over the weekend discussing the impact of Latinas on the 2020 presidential election. Longoria said at the time: “The women…

Leslie Odom Jr. and his wife Nicolette Robinson are expecting their second child together. The Hamilton star, 39, and the former “The Affair” star, 32, took to Instagram to share a pregnancy announcement photo shoot they did with their 3-year-old daughter Lucille, who sweetly cradled her mom’s bump with her parents. And the couple revealed…

Tia Mowry claims her “Sister, Sister” pay never matched that of her counterparts who “weren’t of diversity.” The 42-year-old actress starred in the sitcom alongside her identical twin sister Tamera but has suggested they weren’t treated fairly by TV bosses. She said: “It was very evident to me when I would walk on sets and…

Lashana Lynch has dealt with “attacks” and “abuse” after being cast in the upcoming James Bond movie No Time To Die. The 32-year-old actress makes history in the upcoming movie as the first female and the first Black person ever to play the role of 007, but not everyone took the groundbreaking news well, as…

Lashana Lynch wanted to represent the Black community authentically in No Time to Die. The 32-year-old actress will star in the highly anticipated James Bond film as Nomi and becomes the first Black woman to play a 00 agent in the iconic spy series and revealed she “searched” for moments in the script that Black…

Rap dignitary Common heaped effusive praise on his actress girlfriend Tiffany Haddish, just days after rumors circulated that they may have broken up. During the final week of October 2020, multiple media outlets including The Jasmine Brand and Love B. Scott reported that the 48-year-old rapper had stopped following the Girls Trip star on Instagram.…

Taraji P. Henson will host the American Music Awards. The “Empire” actress will host the event for the first time on Nov. 22, 2020, for ABC, having previously overseen the BET Soul Train Awards in 2009 and 2010 and the Black Girls Rock! Show in 2017 for the network. The 50-year-old star said in a…

Octavia Spencer claims that fans will love the “delicious evil” in The Witches. The 50-year-old actress plays the role of Grandma in Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic 1983 novel and suggests that the movie is “a lot more fun” than the 1990 take on the story. Spencer told “The Graham Norton Show”: “There…