Seasoned rapper/actor Ice Cube reportedly quit a film that Sony was paying him a whopping $9 million to star in simply because he refused to get vaccinated in order to be on set.

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Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz is working on a television series about his coming of age journey.

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Songstress Janelle Monáe recently inked a global deal with Sony Music Publishing.

Politics

After all of Michelle Obama's hard work to encourage healthier lifestyles, the future of her initiatives looks uncertain under a Trump presidency.

Nation

Lin-Manuel Miranda, star of the hip-hop-inspired Broadway play Hamilton, brought his rhymes with him during a visit to the White House on Monday

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In continuing fall out from those hacked Sony emails, Wikileaks revealed that actor Ben Affleck asked that his ancestor’s slave owning past be scrubbed from the program “Finding Your Roots,” and apparently it was, reports The New York Daily News. Affleck asked that the slave-owning detail be edited out of “Finding Your Roots,” a show […]

Former “Young and the Restless” soap opera star Victoria Rowell (pictured) is reportedly suing Sony and CBS Television for not rehiring her, saying it was a retaliatory move for her advocating for blacks in front of and behind the camera, according to court documents obtained by the New York Daily News. The 55-year-old actress, who first landed her “Y&R” gig […]

Nation

The New York Daily News is reporting that an unnamed producer raised questions about casting two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington in films dependent on foreign box office returns because the moviegoers there tend to be racist—that is, they don’t support African American leads in movies. SEE ALSO: Eric Holder On Race: ‘We, As A Nation, […]

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  The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition held a meeting Thursday with Sony executives, including company co-chair Amy Pascal, discussing possible diversity initiatives. RELATED: Kevin Hart’s Perfect Response To Sony Email Links “We want to empower African-American Actors/Actresses, camera men/women, producers and directors,” PUSH wrote in a press statement. “We want to increase participation for companies […]

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Last week, hackers released hundreds of stolen emails between Sony executives. Several of the hacked emails have been highlighted as being racist in nature and now the company is trying to slow down the spread of their internal communications that mention everyone from President Barack Obama to Kevin Hart.  As a result of the released documents, Sony exec Amy Pascal […]

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Activist hackers have exposed a bigoted email exchange between Sony Pictures co-chairwoman and a top Hollywood producer, underscoring how America’s racial divide is not just limited to encounters between Blacks and law enforcement. It also extends to the nation’s boardrooms, and business, political and cultural sectors. SEE ALSO: Fla. Professor Resigns After Saying Obama Turning […]

We managed to snag us a Sony Xperia Ion and played with it for a bit this week. The phone came out on AT&T the end of June and many people are wondering how it stacks up with some of the other devices in AT&T’s stable. Read on to find out! As usual, I’ll be […]