Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  Justine Simmons and Rev. Run. NEW YORK – February 26, 2015 – Justine Simmons and Rev. Run, the iconic musician and seminal hip-hop front man of Run-D.M.C, head back into the kitchen for more family, food and fun, in season two of “Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers,” premiering Wednesday, April 1st at 8pm ET/5:00pm…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Bobbi Kistina Brown (JStone / shutterstock) By Jonathan Landrum Jr. Associated Press ATLANTA–While Bobbi Kristina Brown fights for her life, a feud has erupted over whether her partner can visit her in the hospital. The only daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston has been hospitalized since being found unresponsive Jan. 31 in…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Zendaya arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Giuliana Rancic apologized to Zendaya and others offended by Rancic’s “Fashion Police” jab at the actress-singer’s Oscar-night dreadlocks. On “E! News” Tuesday, Rancic said the reaction to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Aunjanue Ellis as Aminata Diallo with co-star Cuba Gooding Jr. in ‘The Book of Negroes’ By Frazier Moore associated press NEW YORK –“The Book of Negroes’’ tells the story of an 11-year-old girl kidnapped from West Africa in the 18th century who became a slave on a South Carolina plantation, an activist in…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Victoria Rowell  ( s_bukley / shutterstock) associated press NEW YORK–Former soap opera actress Victoria Rowell has sued CBS and producers, saying they have kept her off the air as retaliation for advocating the casting of more black people. The 55-year-old Rowell, who’s black, is best known as a star of “The Young and the…

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By Kam Williams           While Selma’s Academy Awards stock plummeted in the wake of allegations of historical inaccuracies, that of American Sniper simultaneously skyrocketed, thanks to both booming box-office returns and very positive word of mouth. However, Sniper probably had too much ground to make up to catch Birdman, the early…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Eddie Murphy at the SNL40 TV special.  (Screen grab: NBC SNL) By Liz Raftery  TV Guide Eddie Murphy’s return to “Saturday Night Live” for the show’s 40th anniversary special last weekend was supposed to be punctuated by him playing Bill Cosby in a “Celebrity Jeopardy” sketch, but the comedian refused to do so,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Gunnar Myrdal with Ralph Bunche, Washington D.C., 1942 (Bunche looks to camera.) A provocative look at race in America through the prism of a landmark 1944 inquiry into Jim Crow segregation Gunnar Myrdal, was a Swedish researcher whose landmark 1944 study, An American Dilemma, probed deep into the United States’ racial psyche. The film…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard in Empire. By Shannon M. Houston Shadow and Act Every once in a while, a television show comes along and actually lives up to its hype. It has a star-studded cast, a few big names in the credits, and it has everyone, everywhere buzzing about it, before…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Bobby Kristina Brown attends the premiere of “The Houstons: On Our Own” at the Tribeca Grand on October 22, 2012 in New York City.  (JStone / Shutterstock.com) eurweb.com The family of Bobby Kristina Brown is taking selected media outlets to task over what they feel to be conflicting reports on the 21-year-old daughter…

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