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Courtesy of SHOWTIME Director Sacha Jenkins‘ resume is full of projects focused on hip-hop, but he says his most favorite is the latest for Showtime, a documentary on the pioneering hip-hop career of Biz Markie.   Speaking with ABC Audio ahead of the release of All Up in the Biz on August 11, Jenkins said he wanted to make the film because of the late […]

Prince Williams/Wireimage Da Brat‘s newborn son is already striking poses for the camera.  Not long after the rapper welcomed her first born with wife Jesseca Dupart on July 6, she dressed him up for one of his first newborn photoshoots.  With a matching grey hat-and-pant set, one-month-old True Legend donned a yarn-made microphone in his right hand and a boombox in […]

Walt Disney Television/Yolanda Perez Amid the ongoing Hollywood strikes, actor Billy Porter shared the personal toll it has taken on him revealing that he has no choice but to put his house up for sale. “I have to sell my house,” Porter shared in a recent interview with the Evening Standard. “Because we’re on strike. And I don’t […]

Apple TV+ On Tuesday, August 8, Apple TV+ debuted the trailer for the creepy upcoming thriller series The Changeling, starring and executive produced by Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield. Based on the acclaimed bestselling book of the same name by Victor LaValle, the streamer describes the series as a “a fairytale for grown-ups … A horror […]

Amazon Content Services Amazon Prime Video has released the trailer to Sitting in Bars with Cake, the adaptation of the based-on-real-life book of the same name by Audrey Shulman. Grown-ish‘s Yara Shahidi and Hellraiser‘s Odessa A’zion star in the film as, respectively, Jane and Corinne, two 20-something besties in Los Angeles. The streamer teases the […]

Erika Goldring/WireImage Travis Scott‘s album Utopia has dominated the Billboard 200 albums chart for the week, earning the No. 1 spot for the week dated August 12. The accomplishment marks the third-largest sales week for any album this year and the biggest week for any R&B/hip-hop or rap release. The highly-anticipated fourth studio album achieved 496,000 equivalent album units, […]

Peacock In an appearance in the season finale of Hart to Heart, Kevin Hart sat down over some wine with his friend Will Smith, and the pair discussed Will’s global big-screen success. Will explained that when his movie career was starting, studios were convinced a Black actor couldn’t find an international audience. “That was like […]

Beauty Marks Entertainment/Chris Brown Entertainment Ciara and Chris Brown join forces to deliver a hype new song and video, “How We Roll.“ The visual sees the duo competing for the best party of the night, only for them to later link up in the ultimate dance battle against one another.  It’s the latest collaboration from the singers who […]

Chrisean Rose/REAL SIMPLE; The September issue of REAL SIMPLE is on sale August 18 When Jennifer Hudson isn’t spending time interviewing celebrities on her talk show, The Jennifer Hudson Show, she’s busy with parenting duties as mom to her teenage son, David Otunga Jr. In a cover story for Real Simple, Hudson opened up about what it’s like raising a Black boy in […]

ABC/Eric McCandless Lionel Richie is lucky enough to have one main career and two or three side hustles: Not only is he a legendary pop star, he’s also an American Idol judge who’s got his own line of perfumes and home decor, as well as his own flavor of ice cream. But you may be surprised by what he thinks he’d be doing […]