Hollywood has made some big strides towards being more diverse this year, largely in response to the #OscarsSoWhite debacle of last year. Several films this year showcased the incredible talents of African Americans. The 2017 SAG awards recognized this talent and several Black actors and films focussed on the African-American experience ended the night…
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia ruled that Virginia state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional. Richard and Mildred Loving were married in Washington, D.C. in 1958 and were by all means a loving, devoted couple. It is their relationship and legal struggles that the film Loving beautifully…
Named a promising new artist on the influential BBC Sound of 2015 list, Stormzy is known primarily as a grime artist. In addition to the BBC honor, he also won Best Grime Act at the 2015 MOBO Awards, Artist of the Year at the 2016 Rated Awards, and the Innovator Award at the 2016…
In the wake of 2016’s controversial #OscarsSoWhite, addressing the lack of diversity among the Academy Award nominees, this year’s list of prospective Oscar recipients is somewhat more representative of top Hollywood talent today. While La La Land led the list by a wide margin with over a dozen nominations, a number of other memorable…
The BBC has recently released their list of Sound of 2017 artists. The winner for 2017 is Ray BLK, an unsigned 23-year-old R&B and soul artist from London. The annual list is determined by polling music critics and other industry figures and aims to highlight “the most exciting rising stars” in music. Based on…
R&B artist Wande Coal has gotten a lot of industry buzz and praise since breaking into the music scene in 2006. Born Oluwatobi Wande Ojosipe in Lagos Island, Nigeria, Wande Coal got bitten by the music bug while singing in a church choir as a youth. His skills as a dancer got his foot…
Superstars Adele and Drake have come out on top of the U.K.’s Year-End Charts as well as 2016’s Nielsen Music Charts in the U.S. The way people consumed their music varied, with a mix of traditional album sales, digital downloads, and streaming. The way people consume music is always changing. It’s evolved from records…
Meghan Markle had already garnered fame as a television actress on the show Suits, but her level of recognition went practically into outer space recently when it was announced that she was dating Prince Harry of the British royal family and grandson of Queen Elizabeth. She has maintained a prominent spot in international headlines ever…
For most people, a mug shot is just an embarrassing reminder of a mistake. For Jeremy Meeks, it completely changed his life for the better. Meeks went to jail in 2012 on weapons charges, after a history of gang involvement and prior prison time for grand theft auto. When the Stockton, California Police Department…
Playwright August Wilson introduced his brilliant play Fences to the theatrical world in 1983; today Denzel Washington has taken the provocative play to a much larger screen as a film starring himself and Viola Davis. Troy Maxson, played by Denzel Washington, introduces spectators to an incredibly nuanced view of the black American working-class man…
