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Kamala Harris promoted herself as “Kamala Harris for the People” during her failed presidential run. Now that she is Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate, the meaning of “for the people” has become clear: elite Hollywood left-wingers, like J.J. Abrams and Ryan Murphy.

Smollett is a national joke whose only hope of employment is to allow himself to be exploited as a sideshow freak in some straight-to-DVD dreck looking to turn Smollett’s status as a pariah into free publicity.  

Empire’s ratings suffered series-lows on Wednesday as fallout from actor Jussie Smollett being indicted for filing a false police report continues to plague the Fox drama.

Lee Daniels, co-creator of the Fox TV show “Empire,” stealthily deleted an Instagram video this week about the “attack” against Jussie Smollett.

CHICAGO (AP) — A cast member on the hit television show “Empire” alleged he was physically attacked by men in Chicago who shouted racial and homophobic slurs, police said Tuesday.

Oprah Winfrey is attached to star in a Lee Daniels-directed remake of the 1983 Best Picture winner Terms of Endearment, according to a report.

The latest star-studded video endorsing Hillary Clinton comes from the cast of Fox’s critically acclaimed hip-hop soap opera, Empire.

Top Hollywood producer-director Lee Daniels inflated “gun violence” numbers by 66 percent when he claimed that “33,000 people each year die from gun violence” during his speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night.

More than two dozen entertainment industry leaders — including Anne Hathaway, Rob Reiner, Lee Daniels, Aaron Sorkin and Seth MacFarlane — have joined in threatening to never work in the state of Georgia again if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state Legislature last week.

Empire creator Lee Daniels sounded a warning at the Human Rights Campaign’s Los Angeles gala on Saturday, telling attendees that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is going to “take us down.”

Actor Sean Penn has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Lee Daniels for a recent interview in which the creator of the hit show Empire suggested that Penn is physically abusive toward women.

The second season of Fox’s smash hit television series Empire will feature themes of police brutality and the BlackLivesMatter movement more prominently, according to this month’s Hollywood Reporter feature story on the show.

The second season of hit Fox television series Empire premieres later this month – and creator Lee Daniels says the show has come along at a particularly rocky time for race relations in the United States.

The son of late R&B legend Marvin Gaye is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit against the creators of the Fox mega-hit television series Empire, claiming they stole his idea for the show.

After his critically acclaimed drama Empire was snubbed by the Emmys, producer/director Lee Daniels went off on the Television Academy Thursday.

At the Produced By conference in Los Angeles on Sunday, Empire creator Lee Daniels revealed that he has received death threats over a gay storyline on his hit Fox television show. Daniels and Jussie Smollett, who plays Jamal, the gay

Empire showrunner Lee Daniels sounded off on the lack of diversity in television dramas during a roundtable discussion with some of today’s most successful TV writers.

In an interview on Access Hollywood Live, Empire star Terrence Howard explained that he wants the hit Fox television show to use the N-word, saying it would make the show more realistic and would help to “tackle racism.”

Actress Mo’Nique Hicks, who won an Academy Award in 2010 for her role in the film Precious, now says she has been “blackballed” by the film industry for refusing to play “the game.”