Audra McDonald, LaChanze & Celia Rose Gooding Win at Broadway Black’s Inaugural Antonyo Awards

It’s Kevin Hart’s birthday and he definitely felt much happier to celebrate it this year than in the past!  As you may know, the reason why that is the case is that the actor and comedian nearly lost his life in a horrible car accident. To mark his 41st birthday, Hart posted a snap of himself on his go-to platform and it showed him smiling brightly as he was on a boat, enjoying the sunlight.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took part in a joint video call with young leaders last week to discuss fairness, justice, and equal rights.

Bree Black, a Black transgender woman, was found dead in her home after a fatal shooting in Florida, making her the 21st known transgender person to be murdered in 2020.

Rickey Thompson is "booked and busy," even during lockdown. While spending time indoors and social distancing, the actor, comedian, and Internet personality has been keeping our timelines lively and fun with his dancing videos, vintage-inspired outfit posts, and motivational messages.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFox Corp.’s Tubi is widening the streaming audience for The Joy of Painting, the hushed classic hosted by the late Bob Ross.Thirty of 31 seasons, totaling almost 400 episodes, will be on Tubi by the end of the month. The first season of the show, which launched in 1983, is not part of the launch.Cinedigm’s Docurama Channel, which is already on Tubi, will feature the Painting episodes.

BET Awards host Amanda Seales represented the work of Black fashion innovators with her looks on the night.The annual prizegiving, established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network, took place virtually on Sunday, with the live event cancelled due to Covid-19. Lizzo, Beyonce, and Megan Thee Stallion were among the winners, and while the 2020 awards show was forced to take place online, the stars still donned their finest outfits for the ceremony.

very good night at Sunday's BET Awards. For one, she took home two major awards: Best Female Hip-Hop Artist and the Viewers' Choice Award for "Hot Girl Summer." What's more, she delivered a flawless, post-apocalyptic-themed performance of "Girls in the Hood" and "Savage Remix." Meg and her dancers, dressed in leather, rode through the Las Vegas desert on dirt bikes to a scaffolding stage, on which she performed in front of the Black Power fist.

Chloe x Halle performed two hits off their newest album, Ungodly Hour.They opened their two-song set with chilling harmonies before digging into "Forgive Me," which they live-debuted in black latex outfits similar to those on their latest album cover all while delivering subtle yet hard-hitting choreography.The screen then switched to show the sisters wearing matching white outfits while standing in what looked like a red, inflatable life-size box.

Chloe X Halle performed not one, but two of their hits on Sunday’s BET Awards.

D Smoke performed a quick medley of his songs at the BET Awards 2020 on Sunday (June 28). During the network's first virtual ceremony due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the inaugural winner of Netflix's Rhythm & Flow was joined by his brother SiR on a makeshift stage that resembled the streets of L.A.As the performance began, a Black man danced in front of a burned out car, as police dressed in riot gear joined him.

Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx and more stars took the time to honour essential workers amid the coronavirus pandemic in Harry Connick Jr.’s CBS special, “United We Sing: A Grammy Tribute to the Unsung Heroes”, on Sunday.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAudra McDonald, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical and its star Adrienne Warren, LaChanze, Aziza Barnes’ play BLKS and the Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf were among the big winners at tonight’s inaugural Antonyo Awards for black theater artists on Broadway and Off Broadway.McDonald took the award for Best Actor in a Play on Broadway for her performance in the Broadway revival

Good Morning Britain, Ross Kemp opened up about her progress.In the emotional interview, Ross told Susanna Reid that he has not been able to see Barbara since lockdown began in the UK.The British actor and filmmaker admitted that there has been a ‘marked decline’ in her health. ‘The nature of the disease is that she initially knew exactly who I was and in three minutes she turned to me and asked me who I was.

It’s time to light 44 candles because it’s Blake Shelton’s big day! The Voice judge and country music superstar celebrates his birthday today, June 18, but with so many candles, he may need to recruit his sweetheart, Gwen Stefani, 50, to help blow them out. After all, if there’s anything hotter than a flame or sweeter than birthday cake, it’s the love between these two! Ever since they began dating in 2015, Blake and Gwen have set the new standard for couple goals.

Anant Singh Editor’s note: Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, veteran South African producer Anant Singh, whose films include Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom and 2004 Oscar nominee Yesterday, has penned an open letter on the 44th anniversary of the historic student uprising in Soweto, South Africa. The anti-Apartheid uprising was a series of demonstrations led by black students, many of them children, in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the main language in local schools.