Octavia Spencer is taking on the role of a lifetime as she has been tapped to play God in the film adaptation of “The Shack.” The Oscar-winning actress is linking up with Forrest Whitaker to bring the Christian novel to life. As of this weekend, Variety.com reported that she was in final negotiations for the […]

The first movie of what I’m sure will be a trilogy for the series 50 Shades of Grey premiered worldwide Friday. The movie follows the love story of Anastasia Steele, a senior in college and Christian Grey, a successful business mogul. The two complete opposites, develop a submissive/dominant relationship due to their infatuation with each […]

Danny Brown is known for his music, but the MC is about to add author to the list.  He’s planning to release a children’s book inspired by Dr. Seuss, with a special message for young women. “It’s really about self-esteem in Black girls,” Brown said in an interview with Triple J. “You know how Black […]

  PLAY AUDIO Guy Johnson is Dr. Maya Angelou’s only child. He hasn’t had the public profile that his mother did, but his moving eulogy was a highlight of the late poet’s homegoing celebration. Johnson wants the world to know that his mother’s new book, Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou, out now, […]

  *Oh Lawd, what have we here? Well, just in case you didn’t know (and we didn’t either), El DeBarge and Pebbles hooked up back in the day and had a son. The thing is both of them aren’t claiming him. Which brings us to now. Apparently, Sabastian ‘Tian’ McKissack, the pair’s alleged offspring, is apparently making […]

How often have you heard it said that black Americans don’t support each other economically? It’s a common refrain in conversations around sociopolitical uplift for…

Article By Sandra Olson:: EEW Magazine News (EEW Magazine) Mega pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes is the most influential African-American preacher of our time, as proven by…

Earlier in the year, Samuel L. Jackson went off on a seasoned entertainment journalist during a live interview when the interviewer confused him with Laurence Fishburne. Jackson and Fishburne have been dealing with people confusing them for 25 years. Despite not having been apart of that incident, actor/comedian David Alan Grier decided to help both […]

  CLEVELAND – On the afternoon of May 6, 2013 Charles Ramsey was a dishwasher, serving out a two week suspension from work and missing his $269 a week paycheck. With the $11 he had left in his pocket he headed, as the rest of the world would soon learn, to McDonalds and ordered the […]

  CLEVELAND – From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon, that’s how Charles Ramsey’s new website CharlesRamseyWorld.com describes the roller coaster ride that transformed him in a matter of hours from that local dishwasher to an internet star. A rise detailed in his new book set to be released May 1 under the title […]

In 2005 video model Karrine “Superhead” Steffans sent the rap world into a tailspin with her tell-all book about her sexploits in the music industry, “Confessions Of A Video Vixen.” Since then she has published several more tomes including “The Vixen Manual: How To Find, Seduce & Keep the Man You Want,”Drink, Fuck, Sleep” and […]

Whoopi Goldberg speaks onstage during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California *Lifetime has adapted Terry McMillan’s novel A Day Late and a Dollar Short with Whoopi Goldberg and Ving Rhames to headline an all-star cast that includes Mekhi Phifer, Kimberly Elise, Anika Noni Rose and Tichina Arnold. Based […]