The 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards are on the way and as usual, some of the biggest stars in the entertainment firmament will be honored. …

Actors Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong’o arrive at the 23rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards *The Hollywood rumor mill has churned out a new supposed…

12 Years a Slave is picking up Oscar momentum as it won Best Film and and Chiwetel Ejiofor winning best actor at the British Academy Film Awards in London Sunday. Steve McQueen missed out on the best director award, which instead went to Mexican Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity.

12 Years A Slave has done it again — this time, overseas! The awards season favorite took home the top prize at Sunday’s British Academy…

2013 marked the comeback for good, quality Black films and “Essence” magazine is showcasing them in March 2014 issue. Gracing the cover is “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” stars Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, Chiwetel Ejiofor “12 Years a Slave” and “Fruitvale Station” standout Michael B. Jordan. The magazine released a video that gave fans a behind-the-scenes […]

While we definitely honor and acknowledge black history all year round, February 1st marks the official start of Black History Month – a time of…

A Facebook post supporting Black films and artists, and calling out the racism embedded into the Academy Award nomination process, was removed by the social…

  *Chiwetel Ejiofor‘s Best Actor Academy Award nomination may have marked a professional high point for the “12 Years a Slave” entertainer, but there is…

The celebration for Chiwetel Ejiofor’s first Oscar nomination is a family affair. The 12 Years A Slave star’s younger sister, CNN reporter Zain Asher, shared…

Last year was supposed to be a banner film for Black filmmakers. Fruitvale Station, The Butler, and 12 Years a Slave were released and their…

  *“12 Years a Slave” actress Lupita Nyong’o had to cover her body with plastic welts to portray  Patsey, a slave who is viciously beaten…

In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. On January 3, 1853, he regained his…