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   LOS ANGELES – Straight Outta Compton, the most successful music-based movie of all time, may not have gotten any love from the Golden Globe voters,...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- In the surprise snub of the movie awards season, the powerful and poignant music drama Straight Outta Compton was mysteriously...

WE’RE ON THE MOVE   By Kai EL’ZABAR Defender Executive Editor A year ago, October 6, 2014, I walked into the Chicago Defender office and…

We often think about singers and rappers getting into acting, but what happens when it's the other way around? With Sanaa Lathan's recent studio debut...

It almost seems like the mainstream media has a vested interest in plying Will Smith and his wife of 17 years, Jada Pinkett, apart....

NEWARK, N.J. — With many of the most glamorous and famous black women converging on the New Jersey Performing Arts Center outside New York,...

  Michelle Obama turned the annual "Black Girls Rock!" extravaganza at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Taking place during Women’s History Month, and co-hosted...

*Jaden Smith is calling out all the rappers who are better than him to please stand up. “Dear everybody who can rap better than me. Please show me,” he tweeted. Smith recently used his sister’s (Willow Smith) Soundcloud account to release a track called “Melancholy” — rapping over a sample of Pink Floyd‘s “Breathe.” But Smith wasn’t […]

Good news for the Smith family! RardarOnline reports that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been officially cleared by the Los Angeles County Department…

NEW YORK (AP) — James Avery, the bulky character actor who laid down the law at home and on the job as the Honorable...