‘Survivor’: Sabiyah Says It’s Unfair Emily’s ‘Smart’ Gameplay Was Viewed as Racially Motivated

paid homage to a legend in the making: . The Scandal actor specifically chose to emulate the track star's 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials look, which required orange hair, long nails, and tattoos.

Byron Allen Presents theGrio Awards special, honoring African American excellence, is returning to CBS for its second year. Co-hosted by The Talk‘s Sheryl Underwood and comedian Roy Wood, with honorees including Mariah Carey, Don Cheadle and Misty Copeland, the event will air on Saturday, November 25 from 8-10 PM on CBS and will stream live on Paramount+.

In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled to steer the country — and especially the South — forward in the wake of Jim Crow laws and racial violence.

Kerry Washington is getting vulnerable about sharing pieces of her personal life with the world and engaging in activism.

Anthony Holden, whose chronicles of the Royal Family’s troubles caused him to be referred to once as “The Most Reviled Man in Britain,” died on Oct. 7 at his home in London. He was 76 and had a brain tumor, his son Ben said.

Week five was a stressful week of Survivor as the castaways were still getting used to their brand new tribes after they dropped their buffs and had to leave their old tribes behind.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The version of “Killers of the Flower Moon” that is opening in theaters this weekend is far different from the “Killers of the Flower Moon” that director Martin Scorsese first attempted to bring to the big screen. Originally, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth planned to more faithfully adapt David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name and wrote a script from the perspective of the FBI agents who investigated a string of murders among the Osage Nation in the 1920s. Scorsese recently told BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine that this first script “was going to take four-and-a-half hours just to read it.” “Our script was over two hundred pages,” he also confirmed to The New Yorker about the original “Flower Moon” screenplay.

Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74.

Madonna’s Celebration Tour that kicked off at the O2 in London Saturday.But the most special moments revealed the humanity behind the 65-year-old woman that sometimes has been overshadowed living 40 years as not only as the Queen of Pop but one of the famous people on the planet.There was when she sang an capella “Little Star” — from her 1997 classic “Ray of Light” — instead of “Happy Birthday” for oldest daughter Lourdes, who turned 27 the same day her mother launched her 40th-anniversary tour.And then she talked about the Israel-Hamas war in a way that made you feel that she was just like all mothers out there, frightened for their children.“It breaks my heart to see children suffering, teenagers, elderly people suffering. All of it is heartbreaking,” the superstar said.

Taylor Swift has reflected on the impact that Beyoncé has had on her over the years, describing her as “a guiding light throughout my career”.The discussion of the ‘Break My Soul’ singer came following the recent premiere of Swift’s new concert film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which saw the two pop icons walk down the red carpet together.Posting a boomerang of the two sitting together in the cinema eating popcorn on Instagram, Swift took a moment to recall the ways that Beyoncé has influenced her throughout her career – and revealed to fans that she sees her as a revolutionary artist who guided her during her time in the industry.“I’m so glad I’ll never know what my life would’ve been like without @beyonce‘s influence,” she wrote in the caption. “The way she’s taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms.

Alan Eisenberg, the longest-serving executive director of Actors’ Equity Association, died October 7 in Rhinebeck, New York. He was 88.

Michaela Zee “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” director Gareth Edwards is once again addressing the multiple reports about the 2016 film requiring extensive reshoots overseen by Tony Gilroy (the eventual “Andor” creator was hired by Lucasfilm to join the “Rogue One” team in June 2016). On a recent episode of KCRW’s “The Business” podcast, Edwards claimed “there is so much inaccuracy” surrounding the making of the “Star Wars” prequel.

Kerry Washington is spill all the tea!

Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn are teaming up for an epic reunion!

After acting with Meg Ryan in 2004’s “Against The Ropes,” Kerry Washington explained in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” why she declined to play the “white girl’s best friend” role.

, you're incorrect. If you don't believe me, just watch this 20-second clip of the two of them interacting, which is going viral on social media for, ahem, obvious reasons.In the clip, which Washington posted to Twitter and Instagram, , dressed in a sultry red ensemble of sheer lace top and matching trousers, walks down a hotel hallway and knocks on a door.

So, filmmaker Gareth Edwards is doing the interview round for his latest sci-fi extravaganza, “The Creator,” starring John David Washington. It’s a movie heavily indebted to “Blade Runner,” “Apocalypse Now,” and even “Star Wars” (read our review here).

Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained in her new memoir.The actor, who starred alongside Jamie Foxx in the 2012 movie which focused on slavery in the American South, claims in excerpts from her book Thicker Than Water via The Daily Beast that the original script included a scene where she “escaped abuse running naked down the street” and a “terrifyingly brutal rape scene” which she had reservations about being part of.In the end neither scene was filmed and Washington says she still doesn’t know exactly why the latter in particular never went ahead.She wrote: “Jamie and Quentin stood in the corner. Both men were looking down at the dirt floor, and as I walked toward them, Tarantino announced that we were all going home.”Washington went on: “The scene would be cut from the script.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kerry Washington explains in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” that she actively rejected playing the “white girl’s best friend” after starring in “Against the Ropes,” the 2004 boxing drama headlined by Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. The film starred Ryan as Jackie Kallen, the first woman to achieve success as a boxing manager.

Kerry Washington continues to revisit some of the darkest moments of her life in her new memoir, Thicker Than Water, which is currently available wherever books are sold.