She won rave reviews for her role in last year’s Lee Daniels’ The Butler and now Oprah Winfrey is making a return to the big screen. The media mogul has signed up to take on the role of freedom fighter Annie Lee Cooper in Selma, which will focus on Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, The Wrap reports. Winfrey is producing the […]
Jet magazine, the digest-size publication that has been a staple among African-American readers for 63 years, will release its final print issue on June 9. The cover of its final issue features a number of its most famous previous covers. Inside, Jet has created a retrospective of the news covered since 1951. Johnson Publishing announced […]
Ledisi talks with “NewsOne Now” guest host Jeff Johnson about revealing her sensual side on her new album, The Truth. Listen below. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne…
Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who became the country’s favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88. Bexar County, Texas, medical examiner’s investigator Sara Horne said Davis died Sunday morning at University Hospital. Horne said no cause of death was […]
Actress Tika Sumpter joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” Friday to highlight some of the projects on which she’s currently working. From the sound of it,…
“NewsOne Now” host Roland Martin talked with Flex and Shanice about their new reality TV show on OWN “Flex & Shanice: All in the Family.”…
On Mariah Carey‘s new CD, ME. I am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse, Mariah pays homage to the late Rev. James Cleveland with a passionate performance on “Hevenly (No Ways Tired/Can’t Give Up Now).” The song begins with a sound bite from James Cleveland and features him throughout the track. Take a listen and let us know what you think! […]
(Photo : Screen Grab via Facebook/Tyrese Gibson) Actor Denzel Washington urges students to pray, warns against the dangers of misusing money Denzel Washington, one of Hollywood’s most beloved and critically acclaimed actors, recently gave an inspiriting speech to a group of young actors highlighting the importance of prayer. “I pray that you all put your […]
Actress Cicely Tyson will receive an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from the American Film Insitute, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress, who won a Tony Award last year for her work on the Broadway stage in the play The Trip to Bountiful will be honored for her “contribution of distinction to the art of the moving image.” […]
Kelly Price is coming into the “greatest season” of her life and she is celebrating lessons learned with a new album, appropriately titledSing Pray Love. Inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love,” Price sat down with ESSENCE.com to talk about the new music, her own “Eat, Pray, Love” moments, and healing from her season on R&B Divas. […]
The third season of WE tv’s reality series “Mary Mary” drew to a close tonight. Serving up a dose of family-friendly along with reality tv staples (e.g., drama and conflict) that make good reality tv, we definitely enjoyed Season 3 of “Mary Mary.” Hit play and get into Episode 10 of “Mary Mary” as we get a […]
The magazine, which was founded in 1951, is joining an ever-lengthening list of dying print publications. Johnson Publishing Company has announced today that Jet will transition to a digital magazine app at the end of June. Jet has the third-largest circulation in the African-American magazine market with 700,000, behindEbony and Essence. “Almost 63 years ago, my father, John Johnson, […]
