Keke Palmer, Gabrielle Union, More Speak Out On Black Hair Discrimination In Powerful PSA — Watch

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorLifetime has set the cast for The Christmas Setup, its first holiday movie with a lead LGBTQ storyline, and A Sugar & Spice Holiday, its first movie centered on an Asian American family.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVReal-life couple Ben Lewis (“Arrow”) and Blake Lee (“Fam”) have been cast in “The Christmas Setup,” Lifetime’s first-ever LGBTQ-lead original holiday movie, while Jacky Lai (“V-Wars”), Tony Giroux (“Motherland: Fort Salem”) and Tzi Ma (“Mulan”) will star in “A Sugar & Spice Holiday,” centered on an Asian American Family, the network announced Monday.Lifetime also said it is working with GLAAD and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment),

The Flaming Lips have performed recent single ‘God and the Policeman’ (sans collaborator Kacey Musgraves) while appearing as musical guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.As they did when performing ‘Race for the Prize’ on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert back in June, each member performed from inside their own giant plastic bubble. Watch below:‘God and the Policeman’ is taken from the band’s 16th studio album ‘American Head’, which arrived earlier this week.

The Flaming Lips have shared a new video – watch their visual for the Kacey Musgraves-featuring ‘God and the Policeman’ below.The track is lifted from the band’s new album ‘American Head’, which was released yesterday (September 11).The new video was directed by the band’s frontman Wayne Coyne alongside Blake Studdard, and sees Coyne running through the night, before being apprehended by police and taken away in handcuffs.Watch the new video for ‘God and the Policeman’ below:Ahead of the new

Spike Lee and David Byrne aren’t an obvious pairing. While the former’s oeuvre, for the most part, features unflinching stories about Black life in America, the latter became a hero to white college-educated teens everywhere.

just really has no part in any discussion of the work of Byrne or of director Spike Lee, who turned the former Talking Heads front man’s Broadway show into a film that premiered at the slimmed-down TIFF on Thursday, and will come to HBO in October.

If there ever was a year for the Toronto Film Festival to open with a musical pep talk for Americans, surely 2020 is it. American Utopia, the concert film of David Byrne’s 2019 Broadway show, directed by Spike Lee, provides a spark of optimism in the era of COVID-19 and civil unrest.

coronavirus pandemic, with a programme of 58 films from around the world — 50 of which will be premiering online.Steve McQueen’s Mangrove will be opening the festival, and the new film from God’s Own Country director Francis Lee Ammonite will be the closing night gala.Further films that are set to premiere include Spike Lee’s filmed take on David Byrne‘s smash-hit Broadway show American Utopia, as well as Miranda July’s new film Kajillionaire and Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson

Coastal Elites to a sequel to Netflix's The Babysitter.Power Book II: Ghost: This highly anticipated sees Michael Rainey Jr. reprising the role of Tariq St.

Gabrielle Union's post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been "on 10" for several months. The 47-year-old actress has revealed that the coronavirus pandemic and recent unrest in the US have taken their toll on her mental health.

Black Panther‘s official soundtrack has seen a 104% spike in streams in the wake of Chadwick Boseman’s death.The actor, best known for his role as King T’Challa in the landmark 2018 Marvel film, died from colon cancer at the age of 43.As Billboard reports, the songs featured on the Kendrick Lamar-helmed OST generated 3.5million US on-demand plays between August 28 and 29, resulting in a 103.5% gain on the previous two-day period (August 26-27), when the soundtrack registered 1.7million online

Martin Luther King Jr.'s «I Have a Dream» speech at the March on Washington, the families of Black Americans shot or killed by police officers spoke at the same site Friday, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Gabrielle Union’s exit from America’s Got Talent was one of the hardest things she’s ever dealt with.The L.A.’s finest star recalled her experience during the Minding Her Business panel discussion at the virtual American Black Film Festival, labeling it “so surprising and so heartbreaking and so frustrating and so unnecessary”.Union, who departed the NBC show after just one series as a judge amid allegations of harassment and discrimination she witnessed and experienced during season 14,

The first trailer for David Byrne's "American Utopia" has been released. The upcoming production is a filmed version of the Broadway show –­­ a la "Hamilton" –­­ featuring Byrne's music from throughout his career, according to Entertainment Weekly.The film is directed by Spike Lee.

Spike Lee’s concert film adaptation of David Byrne’s American Utopia has landed.In the one minute clip, Byrne narrates over a montage of his roving musical ensemble gyrating, shouting and marching across the stage.

Actress and comedian Gabrielle Union revealed that her America’s Got Talent exit was her hardest moment in the industry so far. “Probably the ‘AGT’…it all was so surprising and so heartbreaking and so frustrating and so unnecessary.

Gabrielle Union is sharing more about her time on and the «brutal» process she went through while leaving the show. During her appearance on the «Minding Her Business» panel for the 2020 American Black Film Festival on Sunday, Union counted her departure from among the most difficult parts of her Hollywood career — and said the drama surrounding it felt like «such a public flogging.» «Probably the of it all was so surprising and so heartbreaking and so frustrating and so unnecessary.