Entertainment

Nearly a decade after the NAACP condemned a “virtual whiteout” in broadcast TV, the civil rights group said major networks have stalled in their efforts to further ethnic diversity on-screen and off.

A “Saturday Night Live” skit portraying New York’s blind governor as a bumbling leader didn’t get a laugh from Gov. David Paterson.

Sam Bradford, Oklahoma's amazingly accurate and quick-thinking passer, and a member of the Cherokee Nation, won the Heisman after leading the highest-scoring team in major college history to the BCS title game.

A rap group going by the name Blago Del Fuego has created a rap song based on the Rod Blagojevich Senate Seat controversy. The songs is based on Shawty Low’s “Dey Know” song and features the same beat. The rappers take the song from Blagojevich’s perspective and dis both Lil Wayne and Kanye West. Watch […]

John McCain paid a lighthearted visit to David Letterman on Thursday, joking: “I don’t want to talk about the bleeping campaign.”

The accolades keep coming for Chris Brown — this time, he’s been named Billboard’s top artist of 2008.

For the Golden Globes this year there are no African Americans nominated for any major awards. The only African American character nominated for an award was played by Robert Downey Jr. in blackface.

The singer is set to begin filming a video next week for her single, “If This Isn’t Love,” according to her label, J Records.

Hudson was due to film the clip in Los Angeles when her mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were discovered shot to death in their Chicago home on the city’s South Side on Oct. 24. The body of her nephew, 7-year-old Julian King, was found in a sport utility vehicle three days later.

While artists like Beyonce, Jay Z and Jennifer Hudson all have been rumored to be performing at Barack Obama’s inauguration, the Hampton University Marching Band is one of the first acts confirmed to be invited to perform.

When it comes to her weight, Oprah Winfrey has always been straightforward.

From rightpundits.com: <span><span>This week’s episode of <span>Family Guy</span> contained an opening sequence in which Peter Griffin dresses as </span><a class="IL_LINK_STYLE" style="border-bottom:1px solid #009900;text-decoration:underline;color:#009900;" href="void(0)">Laura Bush</a><span> for a <a class="IL_LINK_STYLE" style="border-bottom:1px solid #009900;text-decoration:underline;color:#009900;" href="void(0)">costume party</a> and his wife Lois dresses as a bleeding man with tire tracks across his body. The characters repeat several times “Laura Bush Killed A Guy.”</span></span> What exactly was this referring to?