Janet Mock Honored By AAFCA as Breakout Creative (EXCLUSIVE)

Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards A Recovery in Twenty-twenty (or RESTART) Act.If enacted, the RESTART Act would provide additional financial assistance to American small businesses by extending the Paycheck Protection Program, designed to keep workers employed during the coronavirus pandemic. It also offers eligible businesses partially forgivable loans.

Metallica have talked about how their music inspires unity at a time when tensions are high due to various social conflicts.Speaking in a new interview, the legendary metal band discussed how their music helps channel the rage of their fans and whether or not they would leave the United States because of Donald Trump‘s presidency.“I feel a deeper connection to where I came from as I get older,” Lars Ulrich told The Independent, after being asked about a comment he made in 2016 when he said he’d

Ed Meza @edmezavarSony Pictures Television Latin America is developing a new Colombian drama series inspired by popular hip hop band ChocQuibTown that will examine racism in Latin America and what it means to be Afro-Latino.Announced Sunday during the American Black Film Festival, series “Somos Los Prietos” (“We Are the Black Ones”) marks the first cross-company collaboration – referred to internally as “One Sony” – between SPT’s international production arm and Sony Music Latin, which counts

Neil Young has announced that he’s set to release a new EP in September.‘The Times’ will be released exclusively via Amazon Music, and features Young’s recent cover of Bob Dylan’s iconic track ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’.Elsewhere on the seven-track EP, which lands on September 18, is ‘Lookin’ For A Leader 2020′– a re-working of Young’s track ‘Lookin’ For A Leader’, which takes aim at US President Donald Trump whom Young is a notable critic of.“I’m on Amazon Music because no one delivers

Bill & Ted Face The Music will be reaching UK cinemas a week ahead of schedule.The long-awaited third film in the franchise was initially due for release on August 21 but was pushed back in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.A release date was then set for September 23 in the UK, which has now been brought forward.Bill & Ted Face The Music was released in the US today (August 28), with the first reviews now in.The Hollywood Reporter called the new film “almost exactly as good as its two

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video has commissioned a brace of U.K.

It seems Elton John isn't a fan of the current crop of Top 40 hits, claiming that "proper songs" have become "too sophisticated" for the mainstream. 

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterVice President Mike Pence defended President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday night and warned Americans that they will not be “safe in Joe Biden’s America.”Speaking to a small crowd at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Pence accepted the renomination as Trump’s running mate.

Ted Johnson The highlight of the third night of the Republican National Convention will be speeches by Vice President Mike Pence and the second lady of the United States, Karen Pence, but there is another major news story looming, Hurricane Laura.Throughout the day on Wednesday, news networks already were doing a split screen tracker of the hurricane, which is posing a threat to the Gulf Coast as a potential category four storm as it makes landfall.

previously announced Angela Bassett, Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Pauletta Washington, Susan Kelechi Watson and Oprah Winfrey.Coates’ novel was first published in 2015 as a written letter to his teenage son.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThese are boom times for hit songwriters, with catalogs being snapped up by Hipgnosis, Shamrock and others — and the latest big acquisition comes from Spirit Music Group, which announced that it has acquired the publishing catalog of Grammy-nominated songwriter and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi.

Angelique Jackson Kenya Barris and Janet Mock were among the special honorees at Saturday’s 2020 AAFCA TV Honors ceremony, which celebrated the best in entertainment on the small screen. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the African American Film Critics Association’s second annual celebration was held virtually, with stars like Sterling K. Brown, Viola Davis, John Legend and Mindy Kaling accepting their awards from home.Barris picked up the Icon Award, presented by his “#Black-AF” co-star Rashi

In a well-produced virtual ceremony that ran little more than an hour and paired presenters from the worlds of showbiz and public service, the African-American Film Critics Association handed out its second annual TV honors on Saturday morning, not coincidentally right in the homestretch of Emmy voting. Indeed, 2020 Emmy-nominated AAFCA honorees included Sterling K.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWME partner and literary agent Melissa Myers has been tapped to lead a new joint venture between Kinetic Content founder and CEO Chris Coelen and ProZiebenSat.

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has sent a message to those complaining about having to wear a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, telling them to “stop whining and put your god damn mask on.”Countries including the UK, Australia, Vietnam, Mexico, Singapore and parts of the US have introduced face mask mandates to help stop the spread of coronavirus.In an interview with Australia’s Triple M Rock, the Slipknot frontman was asked for his views on those who weren’t sticking to the face mask rules.