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Live Nation Urban The lineup has been announced for Kirk Franklin‘s Exodus Music & Arts Festival this spring.  As is tradition, Franklin is the host and headlining performer. He’ll be joined by Fred Hammond, Kierra Sheard-Kelly, Koryn Hawthorne, Madison Ryann Ward, Le’Andria Johnson, Todd Galberth, Transformation Worship, Naomi Raine and more. The festival will return […]

NAACP The 55th NAACP Image Awards has announced its star-studded lineup of presenters. Delroy Lindo, Deon Cole, Diarra Kilpatrick, Donnie Wahlberg, Erika Alexander, Idris Elba, Jeffrey Wright, Keke Palmer, Kenya Barris, Kerry Washington, Leslie Jones, Lil Rel Howery, Morris Chestnut, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Sabrina Elba, Sterling K. Brown and Taraji P. Henson will all be […]

Jesse Grant/Getty Images Oscar-winning actress Regina King is speaking out for the first time about her son’s death over two years ago. King sat down with Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts for an exclusive interview and shared how her late son, Ian Alexander Jr., who died by suicide in January 2022 at the age […]

NAACP The NAACP has virtually announced a third round of winners in the non-televised categories of this year’s Image Awards, naming Michael B. Jordan and The Color Purple as some of the victors. MBJ won Outstanding Guest Appearance for his time on Saturday Night Live, while his movie Creed III came out on top in the category of Outstanding Stunt Ensemble […]

Ethan Miller/Getty Images via ABC Drake took a break from his Big As What? tour to support Bun B‘s RodeoHouston show. Emerging from an SUV with a Bun B Trill T-shirt, he took the stage at NRG Stadium Tuesday after Bun B introduced him as Houston’s “newest resident.” Drake performed “November 18th” from his So Far Gone album […]

Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Eminem is flaunting his rapping skills in the video for Lyrical Lemonade’s “Doomsday 2.” In the newly released video, directed by Cole Bennett, Em emerges from a yellow curtain and walks through a chaotic office with papers scattered on the ground and bodies on the floor, among other things. As he makes his […]

Starz The Power franchise is still, well, powerful. Starz announced Tuesday that there will be a fourth Power spinoff, a prequel series titled Origins.  The series will focus on the origin stories of Ghost and Tommy, characters played by Omari Hardwick and Joseph Sikora in the original Power series. Sikora also plays Tommy in Power […]

Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives Bo$$, one of the first female rappers signed to Def Jam, has died. She was 54. Def Jam Recordings confirmed her passing on their Instagram page Tuesday.  “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lichelle Marie Laws (Bo$$),” the label wrote. “Bo$$ will be remembered as a pioneer in […]

NAACP Night two of the 55th NAACP Image Awards went down Tuesday night, virtually announcing another round of winners in the non-televised award categories. Among them were Issa Rae, Kyla Pratt and Leslie Jones. Issa was victorious in the category of Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Motion Picture) for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Kyla took home the trophy for Outstanding […]

Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Michael B. Jordan is experiencing a “loneliness” that has come with the many hats he wears. During his appearance on the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast, he opened up about the weight he carries and the “isolating” feeling of having no one around who understands him. “There’s a loneliness that I have. The responsibility that you have […]