Inaugural Black Music And Entertainment Walk Of Fame Honours Otis Redding, James Brown, Kirk Franklin, Beyoncé And More

Kanye West may not be showing his face, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t stepping out. The 44-year-old rapper attended the Balenciaga 50th Couture Collection show for Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday.

Kanye West may not be showing his face, but that doesn't mean he isn't stepping out. The 44-year-old rapper attended the Balenciaga 50th Couture Collection show for Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday. The father of four wore an all-black look with his white Adidas Yeezy shoes.

Judas and the Black Messiah director-producer and co-scribe Shaka King, producers Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King and star Lil Rel Howery are collaborating on an untitled original movie centering around an American political insurrection.

Shaka King, Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King — the Oscar-nominated producing team behind “Judas and the Black Messiah” — have teamed with Lil Rel Howery to develop an original feature centered on an American political insurrection, the filmmakers announced on Tuesday.King is attached to direct the untitled project, though details about the plot are scant.

Lily James and Sebastian Stan went through to play Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee for their upcoming Hulu series, Pam & Tommy.The actors were recently spotted shooting the pair’s iconic 1995 beach wedding in Mexico, with Stan and Lily frolicking through the water in their swimsuits as cameras captured the whole thing.

Jeremy Helligar Lena Waithe is on a mission to return Black music to its glory days.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA year on from the “Blackout Tuesday,” during which the music industry paused to take a look at its racial policies and plan to reform them, how is it doing? According to both last week’s USC-Annenberg “Inclusion in the Music Business” study and a “report card” released over the weekend by the Black Music Action Coalition — a 200-plus-member organization formed around this time last year — it’s doing fair-to-badly.BMAC’s 37-page report takes a look at dozens of

Haley Bosselman editorWhen Chaz Ebert decided to have Black Writers Week on RogerEbert.com, she chose mid-June dates to coincide with the same week as Juneteenth. Upon this decision, she had no idea Juneteenth was to become a federally recognized holiday.“I’m really filled with emotion today because of it being the first federally-recognized Juneteenth Independence Day.

Tiffany Red This guest column was written by Tiffany Red, a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who has co-written hits for Jennifer Hudson, NCT, Jason Derulo, Zendaya and many others. She is also founder of the 100 Percenters, an organization that lobbies for more equitable pay for singers, songwriters, producers, and engineers.Dear Music Industry:Sometimes I wonder where Black artists would be if the system was made for us too.

Playground Games’ Mike Brown, creative director of Forza Horizon 5, joined the Xbox Games Showcase Extended to talk about Forza Horizon 5’s Mexico.“We knew right from the start that we wanted it to be the largest horizon yet. It’s not far down the path from that that you realise you don’t want to go big if it’s going to be more of the same.”Brown starts the discussion by talking about how Mexico is the whole world in one country.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) will present an overview of its inaugural Industry Action Report Card on Friday morning June 18th as part of the National Museum of African American Music’s State of Black Music Summit.With journalist and industry exec Naima Cochrane, BMAC drafted its first-of-its-kind report to “track and measure how individual companies in the music industry delivered on their pledges to work toward justice, equality and change in the wake

Delilah Belle Hamlin and Eyal Booker wrap their arms around each other and share a passionate kiss in these new photos from their family beach vacation!

New Music Friday! It's every audiophile's favorite day of the week, and some of our favorite artists from all different genres have blessed us with new tunes.Lorde officially returned from her musical hiatus with her first new song in three years, kicking off the era with the item's titular track, a boppy summer jam. Migos reteamed to give us a third serving of, with features from Cardi B, Drake, Future and more.