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Hip-hop icon and businessman Jay-Z sat down with former late night host David Letterman where he referred to the presidency as “actually a great thing.” “I think that what he’s forcing people to do is have conversations and [forcing] people to band together and work together, you can’t really address…
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot…
“Black Panther” has left an indelible mark on the film industry that can’t be denied. On Saturday, Ryan Coogler’s superhero film reached $665.4 million in domestic sales at the box office since its Feb. 16 nationwide release. It has now surpassed James Cameron’s 1997 film, “Titanic,” which earned $659.4 million…
According to one movie critic, it is “Black Panther”‘s fault that other movies don’t have a chance to be No. 1. That’s what one movie critic contends. Scott Mendelson, in a piece for Forbes, called the critically acclaimed, record-breaking film “the worst nightmare of an entire industry now” because it…
Former NBA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, along with animator Glen Keane, won the Oscaron Sunday night for best animated short film for “Dear Basketball.” The film is based on a poem Bryant wrote in 2015 announcing his impending retirement from his basketball career. During their acceptance speech, Keane said, “Whatever…
Amandla Stenberg, 19, best known for her role in “The Hunger Games,” explained in a recent conversation at the TIFF Next Wave Festival in Toronto why she walked away from the audition process for Ryan Coogler’s box office smash, “Black Panther.” “One of the most challenging things for me to…
Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter had a powerful message for the president this weekend: you can’t put a price tag on happiness. “Money doesn’t equate to happiness. It doesn’t. That’s missing the whole point,” he said. “You treat people like human beings. That’s the main point. It goes back to the whole…
This year’s most fashionable look at the Golden Globe Awards will not be from the runway. Men and women attending the 75th Golden Globes will reportedly be wearing a simple black and white pin bearing the words “TIME’S UP.” At the start of the new year, just several months after…
Sam Aronov / Shutterstock.com Walmart (one of DiversityInc’s 25 noteworthy companies) reached a legal settlement with comedian and actor Tracy Morgan in the tragic crash last June that killed Morgan’s friend and fellow comedian, James McNair (known as Jimmy Mack), and severely injured Morgan and other passengers in his limousine….
By Michael Nam Walt Hickey of FiveThirtyEight, the outlet with a heavy emphasis on statistical analysis, took a quick look at how Hollywood portrays women on the silver screen, and from that glimpse it looks as though film fantasy is even worse than actual reality. Even in fields with a…
