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The nephew of movie mogul Tyler Perry has reportedly died while in prison. Multiple media outlets are reporting that Gavin Porter, 26, died after allegedly hanging himself in his prison cell on Saturday evening in Farmerville, Louisiana, which is on the northern end of the state about five hours from New Orleans. However, the tragic…

Pretty soon, folks are going to start calling the station “Tyler Perry’s BET Network.” That’s because Tyler Perry is bringing back “House of Payne,” his popular comedy series about a multigenerational family, on BET. The news comes on the heels of a recent announcement that Perry also is launching another show titled “Assisted Living” on BET,…

Fans met actress Bresha Webb in 2010 as the outspoken, over-the-top, sista girl Imunique in UPN’s comedy series “Love That Girl!” With comedy veteran Martin Lawrence as executive producer and “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” darling Tatyana Ali leading the cast, the show was a great opportunity for an up-and-coming actress with formal triple-threat training in singing,…

The storyline in Tyler Perry’s recent movie, A Fall From Grace, had unexpected twists and turns, but for the most part stays consistent with the filmmaker’s signature narrative of a single, distressed Black woman dealing with heartbreak and depression. Crystal Fox stars as Grace Waters, a divorcee struggling with adapting to a new life after her…

Cicely Tyson‘s name immediately commands immense respect and admiration. Black Hollywood’s undeniable matriarch turned 95 years old on Dec. 19, 2019, but unlike most nonagenarians, Tyson’s golden years are being spent preparing for a cross-country press run and finishing touches on a new series. She joins co-stars Phylicia Rashad, Crystal Fox and Bresha Webb for…

Black people are arguably the world’s most discriminating and merciless people when it comes to critiquing hair and wigs, especially bad ones. Evidence of that first came to this reporter when former teen gymnast Gabby Douglas was busy breaking barriers and making history during the 2012 Olympics, yet the only thing most Twitter users could…

Movie and TV mogul Tyler Perry surprised readers when he admitted he does not miss playing Madea and that, in fact, he has always hated transforming himself into the famous gun-toting, foulmouthed grandmother. In an interview with Level while promoting his latest film “A Fall From Grace,” Perry spoke about a wide range of issues,…

Tyler Perry finally explains to an inquisitive public why he currently has no writers room. Perry, 50, said he grew increasingly more “unhappy” while working with inadequate union and nonunion writers who didn’t understand his voice or his audience. That inspired Perry to abolish the “writers room” altogether and pen the material to all of…

Phylicia Rashad and Bresha Webb talk with rolling out’s Christal Jordan about diversity in movie roles for Black women. The two actresses star in Tyler Perry‘s new Netflix film, A Fall From Grace.

Tyler Perry and Crystal Fox discuss the new Netflix movie A Fall from Grace. Perry also describes his childhood and witnessing the women in his life endure emotional trauma due to heartbreak.

In 1991, Darrell Hall was arrested after being caught with two grams of cocaine. After being convicted, Hall was sentenced to life in prison. Hall, now 52, would serve 20 years in prison for the crime, but he would eventually be released on Dec. 13, 2019. On Jan. 8, Hall was a guest at the…

TV and movie mogul Tyler Perry received some pushback when he boasted on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, that he is the sole writer for all of his current shows. But he had a response to his critics. While the Tyler Perry Studio owner mostly received props for his indefatiguable devotion to his shows, which include…

Movie mogul Tyler Perry has been riding a powerful wave in recent months. His uninterrupted upward trajectory has been punctuated by the grand opening of his Tyler Perry Studios that attracted the crème de la crème of music, politics and entertainment. Since then, Perry has launched two new BET shows, “The Oval” and “Sistas” while…

Tyler Perry Studios will soon be open to the public. Perry has announced that official visitor tours will begin on his vast movie-making campus in 2020. According to the New York Times, Tyler Perry Studios is larger than the iconic Hollywood lots of MGM, Disney and Paramount Pictures combined. “Are you looking forward to going…

Tyler Perry has agreed to pay the $14K medical bill and travel costs for a couple stranded in Mexico. The 50-year-old star stepped in after reading about the plight of Stephen Johnson, who fell ill with pancreatitis and diabetes while onboard a Carnival Dream cruise ship with fiancée Tori Austin. Johnson was urged to seek treatment and…

As most Black people fight for a veritable seat at the table, Tyler Perry told the 2019 BET Awards audience that he, instead, went off to build his own table. Fans got a glimpse of this stupendous table during his monstrously successful Tyler Perry Studios grand opening near downtown Atlanta in October. Fans and media…

No one will soon forget the spectacular, star-studded party that Tyler Perry threw in Atlanta for the grand opening of his $250 million Tyler Perry Studios in in October – most of all Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. The Hollywood power couple vlogged their entire trip that began in greater Los Aneles, continued on their…

Who needs Madea, anyway? Tyler Perry is on fire these days. Just weeks after Perry hosted an awe-inspiring celebrity party at his Atlanta studio, the movie mogul will now host the Democratic national debates at his sprawling Tyler Perry Studios complex in November. This news comes just as it was announced that Perry will be…

Steve Harvey is the walking embodiment of the age-old axiom that “when one door closes, another one opens.” Now that Harvey has a few minutes on his hands after being unceremoniously ousted from the daytime talk show genre — despite “Steve” garnering high ratings for seven seasons — he appears to be focusing his energies…

Movie mogul Tyler Perry has rarely given insight into his personal life of late, despite being very open about what happened during his childhood and how it impacted him. During the latest episode of “The Real,” the Madea mastermind revealed he broke down when he had to get stern with his 5-year-old son, Aman, after…