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Lovie Simone The Craft: Legacy

Actress Lovie Simone is among one of the rising young stars in the next generation of Hollywood talent. With appearances in the TV drama series “Greenleaf” and the film Selah and the Spades, she is adding new life and depth to each subsequent role. In her next outing, The Craft: Legacy, Simone steps into the…

Niecy Nash is set to land her own daytime talk show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 50-year-old actress is close to getting her own show with CBS Television Distribution. The studio behind “The Drew Barrymore Show” is reportedly planning a presentation for the program shortly to see if it could become a series. Nash…

Tracee Ellis Ross is “happily single.” The “Black-ish” star doesn’t currently have a partner in her life but has said that while she’s “open to” the idea of finding someone to settle down with, she’s also more than happy with her “wonderful and robust experience of being single.” She explained: “I am happily single, though…

Rosario Dawson and her boyfriend, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, have found life “incredibly enriching” since moving in together. The 41-year-old actress moved into her politician boyfriend’s New Jersey home over the summer so that they could spend lockdown together amid the coronavirus pandemic, and Booker has now admitted the couple are loving life…

Taraji P. Henson warns people to be careful how loosely they use the term “Black Girl Magic” because it “dehumanizes” and minimizes the pain that Black woman often go through. The beloved actress headlined Marie Claire‘s annual Power On summit, which was held virtually due to the pandemic. The former “Empire” star, who first came…

Kerry Washington is suffering from “a lot of anxiety and stress.” The “Scandal” alum opened up on her current mental health status on Twitter, where she responded to a fan who questioned why she always seems to tweet in the early hours of the morning. She wrote: “I’m having a hard time sleeping. Lot of…

“The Cosby Show” changed the face of the American television industry. Starring Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad as a married couple who raised their kids in Brooklyn, New York, while working as a doctor and lawyer, the show provided a progressive look at a Black family. However, Cosby’s conviction on sexual assault charges in 2018…

Taraji P. Henson is set to host a show about mental health on Facebook Watch. The “Empire” star will be the face of a brand new series titled “Peace of Mind with Taraji,” which will be co-hosted by the actress and Tracie Jade Jenkins, who is the executive director of the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation,…

Valarie Pettiford, an award-winning stage and screen actor, dancer and singer, urged aspiring performers to study and know their craft during the 2020 Rolling Out Innovation Digital and Entertainment (RIDE) Conference, held virtually Sept. 25-26. Pettiford, who received a Tony nomination for her role in the original Broadway production of Fosse, shared the knowledge she…

Ashleigh Lathrop Utopia

Actress Ashleigh LaThrop combines sweetness and street smarts in the series “Utopia.” LaThrop stars as Becky, a young lady obsessed with the comic book “Utopia.” After connecting with fellow book lovers in an online community, they discover the stories — and dangers — are real. In an interview with rolling out, LaThrop discusses her character’s…

Halle Berry has seemingly confirmed she is dating singer Van Hunt. The 54-year-old actress — who has 12-year-old Nahla with former boyfriend Gabriel Aubry and 6-year-old Maceo with ex-husband Olivier Martinez — took to Instagram to post a picture of herself donning a T-shirt with the musician’s name emblazoned across it and tagged him in…

Halle Berry is hurt and disgusted. She naively believed that winning the Academy Award would change things for the better and open doors wider for women of color coming behind her. But the exact opposite has taken place in the ensuing 18 years, and Berry now counts her greatest career win as one of her…

Niecy Nash insisted her new marriage is not a “coming out” moment. The 50-year-old star — who was previously wed to Don Nash and Jay Tucker — surprised fans late last month when she wed Jessica Betts but she insisted she has never “suppressed” her sexuality and simply doesn’t put limits on love. She told…

The hit TV sitcom “The Golden Girls” is being reimagined with a cast of Black actresses and a focus on real issues. Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sanaa Lathan and Regina King will be stepping into the roles of the characters for a virtual Zoom event on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. The actresses announced the…

Gabrielle Union‘s post-traumatic stress disorder has been “on 10” for several months. The 47-year-old actress has revealed that the coronavirus pandemic and recent unrest in the U.S. have taken their toll on her mental health. She shared: “The combination of a pandemic and this racial reckoning, alongside being inundated with [images of] the brutalization of…

Letitia Wright has written an emotional poem in tribute to her “brother” Chadwick Boseman. The 26-year-old actress — who played his on-screen sister in Marvel blockbuster Black Panther — has opened up following the tragic death of her late co-star, who passed away Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, at 43 after a long battle with cancer.…

What is better than pairing Lauryn Hill and Louis Vuitton? Hill’s timeless music and the French fashion house have teamed up for a video performance set to accompany Louis Vuitton’s spring-summer 2021 menswear show in Shanghai. The black-and-white video, which was shot in July at MLH Studio in New Jersey, features a 20-minute set with…

Actress and comedian Farah “Cocoa” Brown was born to make people laugh. The Newport News, Virginia, native uses her humor to uplift and educate. Her TV and film credits include Tyler Perry’s “For Better or Worse,” Lakeview Terrace, Single Moms Club, and more. She has done top-rated comedy shows on BET’s “Comic View” and “Showtime…

Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys is set to produce a new film. The 39-year-old, who recently served as a producer on the Netflix film Work It, will produce an upcoming romantic comedy via her AK Worldwide label. Netflix made the announcement via Twitter on Tuesday, Aug. 11. Exciting news!! A romantic comedy starring @ChristinaMilian, @JayPharoah,…

Janelle Monáe has been suffering with “abandonment issues.” The Antebellum star says her father was “in and out” of her life when she was growing up which left her feeling as though she wasn’t good enough, and although she’s been battling feelings of abandonment for several years, she has only started to “really deal with it”…