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Lathan and Malcolm D. Lee, famed producer and director (Best Man, Best Man Holiday, Girls Trip, Barbershop and more) also hosted the Keynote Conversation: Keep Rising, where Lee served as the moderator. Their exchange gave Lathan an opportunity to candidly discuss her career in film, her friends and family, including her famed father, Stan Lathan,…

Thespian Sanaa Lathan rocketed to national fame in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s with her hit urban-oriented flicks punctuated by her caramel-coated visage framed by her signature long, flowing tresses. The star of Best Man, Brown Sugar and especially Love & Basketball took an artistic risk by going completely bald in September 2017 for…

Netflix and Strong Black Lead hosted a celebratory dinner in Atlanta this week in honor of the upcoming release of Netflix’s original film “Nappily Ever After.” Actress Sanaa Lathan stars in the film, which is based on the 2001 best-selling novel by Trisha R. Thomas and touches on the realities Black women face on their respective hair…

The mystery of who bit Beyoncé has allegedly been solved. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tiffany Haddish finally revealed the culprit. Several months ago, Haddish shared a story about the night she partied with Beyoncé. At some point during the party, Haddish said an actress, then unnamed, bit Beyoncé in the face. Haddish…

Best Man Holiday (2013) is the Malcolm D. Lee’s sequel to The Best Man (1999), a “rebirth” and reboot in a sense. During an interview with actors Nia Long (Jordan), Taye Diggs (Harper) and Sanaa Lathan (Robyn), Jordan. The trio spoke with our reporter, Iesha Daniels, an on-set ruse – a playful one. If you’ll remember…

Tiffany Haddish spilled all kinds of tea in a recent interview, creating national intrigue about the identity of the actress who bit pop goddess Beyoncé in the face. In an interview with GQ magazine, Haddish said she almost got into a fight at a Jay-Z after-party that led to a selfie with Queen Bey in…

Sanaa Lathan is bodacious, brainy, beautiful, bald — and in a bikini. Lathan, 46, is stunting and stunning with a new look. To say that she’s grown into it would be an understatement. And, after getting over the initial shock of losing her lengthy locks, she is rocking the look. The real estate above the…

Sanaa Lathan is rocking a new ‘do and we love it. On Tuesday, the 45-year-old actress revealed on Instagram that she shaved her head for her new role in Netflix’s “Nappily Ever After.” #NappilyEverAfter 👶🏽 A post shared by Sanaa Lathan (@sanaalathan) on Sep 5, 2017 at 2:54pm PDT “Nappily Ever After” centers on Violet Jones…

Over the past week, the Black community has seen a flood of social media posts pour out form our community over the shocking and heartbreaking revelation that there are reportedly more than a dozen missing Black and Latina girls from the Washington, D.C. area. Since social media posts about the missing girls began going viral,…

Shhh. Just for a moment, close your eyes and listen. You hear it? That, my friend, is the tide officially changing. For so long, Black women in this country have suffered through being unnoticed, undervalued and unappreciated. But a funny thing happened on the way to this unfortunate trend becoming an unbreakable tenet of American…

America is long overdue for a paradigm shift in race relations. “Shots Fired” is an unprecedented 10-hour series that aims to spark that shift. Created and executive produced by husband and wife team Reggie Rock Bythewood (“Notorious”, “Get on the Bus”) and Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Love & Basketball”, The Secret Life of Bees”), the show is set…

Harlem School of the Arts honored Michael Feinstein, who received the Dorothy Maynor Award; actress Sanaa Lathan and her father, Stan Lathan who were presented with the Visionary Artist Award; and Sandra L. Richards, with the Betty Allen Lifetime Achievement Award.

On Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, Harlem School of the Arts hosted its annual gala benefit to support the school’s year-round visual and performing arts programming and initiatives. This year’s event was transformed into a Halloween masquerade ball held in the Grand Ballroom at The Plaza Hotel. The star-studded evening acknowledged artists, community leaders and activists who…

Sanaa Lathan, along with acclaimed husband and wife duo Gina Prince and Reggie Rock Bythewood (“A Different World,” Notorious), will look to take on the topic of police shootings for an “event” series being developed by Fox. The series will be set in the aftermath of an African-American cop killing a white teen in Tennessee. Lathan will…

Teenage action adventure Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials outpaced Johnny Depp’s gangster flick Black Mass to capture this weekend’s box office crown. Maze Runner, a follow-up to the 2014 original, earned an estimated $30.3 million in its opening week while Depp’s Black Mass, a semi-biopic on notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, managed to pull in $23.3 million. Falling one notch…

The Perfect Guy proved to have the perfect opening weekend, as it narrowly held off M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit to claim the title of number one movie in America this weekend. Reports indicate that an overwhelming female audience of 68 percent helped power The Perfect Guy past The Visit with 58 percent of that audience…

It’s apparently not enough for Sanaa Lathan to currently have the number 1 movie in America. She also had to reign as rolling out’s cover queen, while also teasing men everywhere with the details of her perfect guy. It’s been quite the recent run for her.

There are many actresses who would love to have had the career Sanaa Lathan has made for herself. The beautiful, New York City native has starred in romantic comedies, action films and character-driven dramas over the course of the last 20 years and she’s also managed to remain a stunning and serious actress. She is…

The Perfect Guy Movie

After breaking up with her commitment phobic boyfriend (Morris Chestnut), successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) jumps into a passionate relationship with The Perfect Guy a charming stranger (Michael Ealy). When Dave resurfaces in her life she has to decide which man she should trust and which one she should fear. Follow #ThePerfectGuy **IF YOU ARE IN ST…

Actress Sanaa Lathan reveals just how much–and how little–constant compliments about her beauty have affected her, and shares that she’s doing a better job of loving herself and being comfortable with who she is.