Byron Allen Sues McDonald’s For Discriminating Against Black-Owned Media, Seeks $10 Billion In Damages

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA coterie of 20 big advertisers — General Mills, L’Oreal and Nestle among them — has vowed to spend between 2% and 5% of their annual media budgets on Black-owned media outlets, part of a growing effort on Madison Avenue to raise ad dollars in support of multicultural media venues.The group of marketers, which also includes AARP, Mars, Pernod Ricard, Danone, DoorDash, Target and Tyson Foods, is working through GroupM, the large WPP media investment unit that

Howdy, cowboy! From Blake Shelton and Sam Hunt to Keith Urban and Kane Brown, the country music genre has a lot of sexy men who make Us swoon.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAbu Dhabi is stepping up efforts to become a global media and entertainment industry hub as part of a drive to diversify its oil-based economy.The oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates has consolidated its so-called culture and creative industries — basically museums and media industry infrastructure — into a single unit called DCT Abu Dhabi that plans to plunk down a whopping additional $6 billion over the next five years into industry sectors

It was recently discovered that Sandra Bullock‘s real estate portfolio is even larger than anyone realized!

Journalist and filmmaker Geraldine Moriba is joining Allen Media Group’s The Grio as senior vice president of news and entertainment, focusing on development, brand sponsorships and editorial partnerships.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSean “Diddy” Combs has teamed up with Salesforce to launch Shop Circulate, which the announcement describes as a curated digital marketplace that allows consumers to discover and buy products exclusively created and sold by Black entrepreneurs. The platform’s goal is to provide Black businesses with a platform to reach global audiences and empowers consumers to shop the world’s best Black-owned brands.

Blake Lively is quite the artist while using ketchup!

Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock are clearly enjoying their time together on set. The actors are currently filming their new movie The Lost City of D and Tatum shared an epic photo of them posing in the waters of a jungle.

Balan Palanisamy, the veteran executive behind Southeast Asia distribution powerhouse Suraya Filem, has died at the age of 64 following a battle with Covid-19, according to several people who worked with him.

Nicholas White It’s only been three years since its debut, but Actor Trade, an app that connects actors with each other to read lines for feedback and performance practice, has grown to 20,000 international users.The app, the creation of actors Dylan Mooney and Shondrella Avery, celebrated its third anniversary in April, and is riding a wave of enthusiasm with word of mouth, social media support and pride in Black ownership.“In my heart, we’re not represented in a lot of industries enough,

Drew Barrymore is holding herself accountable… sort of!

Drew Barrymore told Dylan Farrow yesterday that she was “gaslit” into working with Woody Allen in the 1996 comedy Everyone Says I Love You, and that she now regrets it.

A new thriller from writer Dan Brown is on its way to TV screens.

EXCLUSIVE: The Bleav Podcast Network is launching the new dark comedy podcast The Bystanders starring Jane Lynch and Emmy and Tony Winner Kristin Chenoweth. It will also mark the first scripted podcast from Black Label Media. Heather Morris will also co-star and produce the show with Jaclyn Hales and Ash Lendzion writing, directing and producing the show.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIn the space of just a few weeks, a group of Madison Avenue heavyweights — with names like General Motors, Interpublic Group and WPP — has made public guarantees of ad money for some of the industry’s smaller media outlets, all owned by Black entrepreneurs. Getting these companies to talk about ad spending in public is an amazing feat.

Scott Brown was caught up in a hilarious on-air blooper to mark his Parkhead send off. The skipper will play his last game for the club this week ahead of his move to Aberdeen as a player-coach under Stephen Glass.

Céline Dion, Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan are heading to Las Vegas!ET has learned that the music superstars will become the founding headliners at the Strip’s highly anticipated Resorts World Las Vegas, which opens its doors on June 24.

Scott Brown has admitted he will miss the good times as he prepares to depart Glasgow's east end. The skipper will pull on the green and white for the final time this week as he ends the campaign against Hibs at Easter Road.