Fox Searchlight Pictures has landed a record-busting $17.5 million deal for the rights to distribute black filmmaker, writer, and producer Nate Parker’s “Birth of a Nation,” a biopic about Nat Turner, the former slave who led a 48-hour bloody slave rebellion over his white masters in 1831.
Writing in the Washington Post, President Obama promises to ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons and urges Americans to reconsider the method that “triggers depression” among inmates. “It has been linked to depression, alienation,
Adding his name to the growing list of celebrities who’ve decided to downplay the Academy’s lack of black nominees is singer Will.i.am, who is calling the controversy “a waste of energy.”
Actor and rapper Nick Cannon chimed in on the Oscars controversy with a two-minute rap video urging his fellow black entertainers to not be “distracted” by “fake gold and plastic.”
Joining Straight Out Compton producer Ice Cube, who called the “Oscars So White” Academy Awards controversy “ridiculous,” is actor Malik Yoba–who told his fans via Instagram that “being included” in Hollywood “is not a given.”
A black Atlanta woman supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump explained in a video that she can’t believe she ever supported the Democratic party, and threatened to divorce her husband if he didn’t vote Trump for president.
Just hours after declaring that she wishes she were “African American because people don’t bash them,” two-time Oscar Award winning actress Julie Delpy says she is “very sorry for how I expressed myself.”
Responding to the lack of black Academy Award nominees, actress Julie Delpy said she believes there’s “nothing worse than being a woman” in Hollywood and wishes she were black instead.
Actor, writer, and, Straight Out of Compton producer Ice Cube called the “Oscars So White” controversy “ridiculous,” and said not getting approval from the Academy “is not something you should dwell on.”
White rapper Macklemore released “White Privilege II,” a self-flagellating 10-minute song apologizing for the oppression of white privilege. Criticism for the song came quick, and the judgments have been harsh.
White rapper Macklemore has released an excruciatingly self-flagellating near nine-minute song explaining how white privilege is responsible for everything from his own success to why Officer Darren Wilson was “let off” after killing Michael Brown.
Fox News contributor Stacey Dash created quite the controversy this week when she suggested that black entertainers who support self-segregation–à la BET and Black History Month–are hypocrites for trashing the lack of black Oscar nominees. Now Dash is hitting back against her critics.
The lack of black Academy Award nominees has now captured the attention of Congress; Rep. Danny Davis has become the first lawmaker to throw his support behind those boycotting this year’s ceremony.
In a recently released press statement, Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov said he has made no plans to respond to the 14 pages of demands submitted to his office by a group of black students.
Considering the massive amount of media attention the lack of black Oscar nominations is receiving, you would think the “Oscars So White” issue is the most consequential calamity facing black Americans since slavery.
In what is sure to become one of the first in a long list of films portraying the life of the Obama’s, “Southside With You” tells the story set in the summer of 1989 of how then-first-year Harvard Law student Barack Obama asked Michelle Robinson out on their first date.
Fresh from an award-winning performance about Miracle Mop creator, Jennifer Lawrence is set to portray Marita Lorenz, the women who was tasked by the CIA to assassinate her lover Fidel Castro.
The mushrooming media frenzy over the lack of black Oscar nominations continued Wednesday with a verbal assault on actress and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash after she suggested that black entertainers be consistent in their calls to end segregation in Hollywood.
White voting members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are responding to accusations of racism against the organization after last week’s announcement of Oscar nominations that included zero non-white entertainers.
Actress and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash says it’s “ludicrous” for black entertainers to call for a boycott of the Oscars for not nominating black performers while simultaneously supporting the BET and NAACP Awards which only recognize black artists.
The month of April at Portland Community College will be dedicated to “Whiteness History Month,” which the school says is an “educational project” focusing on how the “construct of whiteness” promotes racial inequality.
In a heated discussion about racism in America, The View co-host Joy Behar blasted what she called the “racist rhetoric” coming from the Republican presidential candidates.
Music mogul Russell Simmons sat down with HuffPost Live on Friday and said he hopes leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the primary because that would be good for Democrats like socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.
During an interview Thursday on The Dale Jackson Show, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) called President Obama the most “racially divisive” president in America since slavery.
Comedian and host of Family Feud Steve Harvey took a break from cracking jokes Wednesday and delivered an inspirational message to his studio audience about what it really means to be successful in life.
In an effort to defy a law requiring voters to present a photo ID in North Carolina, Irving Joyner, North Carolina NAACP Legal Redress Chair, held a press conference Tuesday and said, “We are going out and we are mobilizing people and telling them wherever they are to go to the polls whether you have a picture voter ID or not and demand their right to vote.”
Super star comedian Kevin Hart poured his heart out during Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show and explained how his father’s uncontrollable drug addiction taught him how to be a better dad.
Before President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, Washington D.C.-based rapper Wale took the stage and performed to a crowd at the WhiteHouse.gov’s #SOTU pre-show.
“The illegal alien gangbanger who executed my son was in jail on gun charges and was given an early release, and murdered my son the next day,” said Jamiel Shaw Sr. exclusively to Breitbart News. “I’m not surprised Barbara Lee didn’t call and invite me and my family to the State of the Union. I’m not surprised President Obama didn’t call me and invite me and my family.”
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza says her organization’s movement must be about “abolishing a criminal justice system that feeds off the labor and the lives of black and brown people” and “abolishing an economic system that thrives on exploitation, poverty and misery.”
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) has invited the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter group, Alicia Garza, to be her official guest at President Obama’s last State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Sabrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was killed in February 2012 by George Zimmerman, endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday in an op-ed for CNN.
A North Dakota man named Scott Stockert was arrested Wednesday after Washington, D.C., police officers learned he had traveled to the Hampton Inn near the Washington Convention Center to dognap the First Dog of the United States, Bo.
Leonardo DiCaprio told Charlie Rose in an interview Thursday that climate change is “the biggest problem that mankind has ever had to face,” ahead of the international refugee crises being fueled by the deadly rise of the Islamic State.
Killer Mike, the Atlanta-based rapper backing Bernie Sanders for president, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday to talk about race in America and why he is supporting the socialist senator from Vermont.
Whoopi Goldberg declared to “The View” audience on Tuesday that she is proud to call herself an American and doesn’t need or want to use the phrase African-American.
The Daily Beast published a piece by author Rob Brotherton that explains “How the Illuminati Stole the Mind, Soul, and Body of Hip-Hop.”
The year 2015 has been one of great gains for America’s newest generation of professional race-baiters, Black Lives Matter, and their allies in the elite media.
Omaha man Norman Bennett has at least 13 kids from 11 women and owes at least $50,000 in unpaid child support.
In a flood of media reporting and analysis appearing hours after a grand jury’s announcement to not indict officers involved in the shooting death of Tamir Rice, NBC and MSNBC used Rice’s case to conclude that the Black Lives Matter movement has “not made enough progress.”
