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LeVar Burton and other celebrities have turned to crowdfunding to fund their new projects. Evita Robinson, Travel blogger/Crowdfunding consultant and Rodney Sampson, Social media consultant…

*While snippets of this dropped last week, today marks the full reveal of Bud Light’s Super Bowl commercial featuring hidden camera footage of a normal…

  *Don Cheadle, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey are among the first round of presenters announced for Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. The…

  l   Don Cheadle will pay Miles Davis in an upcoming biopic of his  career after he retiredfor a short time and came back in 1979. The script is written by Cheadle and Steven Baigelman. Also set to play in the movie is Ewan McGregor playing a Rolling Stone reporter, and Zoe Saldana will play Mile’s […]

If you watched the Emmys last night, you know a couple of things: 1. Kerry Washington didn’t win. 2. They were really really really sad.…

No big surprise here, but Kerry Washington’s reign as the current Black Hollywood darling and fashion icon has a gold ceiling–no Emmy award for her.…

Marvel Studios and Disney’s Iron Man 3 has blasted into the stratosphere overseas, opening to $195.3 million from 42 markets to beat last year’s global blockbuster The Avengers, which debuted to $185.1 million internationally. Box office observers agree that Iron Man 3 is playing more like a sequel to last summer’s The Avengers — which […]

Guess who is coming to the little screen… The workplace-consultant drama starring Emmy nominee Don Cheadle has tapped Larenz Tate(Rescue Me) and Nia Long (Third Watch) for recurring roles in its sophomore season, Showtime said Tuesday. Tate will play Marty’s (Cheadle) younger, less ambitious activist brother, while Long will play a fellow consultant and former classmate of Marty’s who proves […]

The 2012 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles and Idris Elba, Don Cheadle, Loretta Devine and Maya Rudolph are among the…

Don Cheadle took to Twitter to clarify statements he made to Jet Magazine about wishing President Obama was more “gangsta”. “I realize that when speaking to reporters who are looking for the juiciest comments to print, a word like gangster in connection with a black president uttered by a black celebrity can almost be too […]