John Legend President’s Award for Service & Humanitarian Efforts honoree Ohio born John Legend is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter. His work has garnered him nine Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, the BET Award for Best New Artist and the special Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, […]
Life is imitating art for one of Law & Order‘s former directors. Jason “Jace” Alexander, who worked on the show from 1994 through 2005, was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges. According to the Westchester County District Attorney, Alexander was charged with several felony counts of promoting sexual performance by a child after he was caught […]
In an important move for people of color who helped propel him into office twice, President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to continue fighting for young Black and brown lives well after he leaves office. Obama made the pledge Monday in the Bronx section of New York City during the aftermath of unrest over police […]
Singer John Legend is known for lending his voice to social issues and for his latest, he’s trying to tackle mass incarceration. The Ohio-bred crooner has launched a campaign to address the criminal justice system. “We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country,” he said during a recent interview. “It’s destroying families, it’s destroying […]
Much was made about the Oscars last Sunday. The hash tag #OscarsSoWhite reflected the absence of color among some of the biggest categories of the night. But during the awards, several stars used their moment of recognition to lift up social issues that are being discussed, debated and decided by policymakers in Washington, DC and […]
Common and John Legend captured Oscar gold on Sunday with their win for Best Original Song for “Glory,” the title track to the movie “Selma.” During their acceptance speech, both Legend and Common spoke of the fight against social injustice in their respective remarks after grabbing hold of their Academy Award. Common told the audience […]
The 87th Academy Awards — though many took umbrage to the fact that people of color were few and far between among the nominees — were not too shabby last night, with a few folks making their personal moments political on the world stage. There were more than enough tears to go around, as some got downright […]
Ava Duvernay, whom many feel was snubbed for a Best Director nomination at this year’s Academy Awards, said that she would like to stop discussing the lack of diversity of this year’s Oscars. SEE ALSO: Ava Duvernay Will Direct And Produce CBS Pilot The director of “Selma,” which received a Best Picture nod, told The New […]
The highly anticipated, star studded Grammy Awards are just around the corner and some of our favorite artists are up for this year’s top honors. Here is a brief rundown of some of this year’s high profile Grammy nominees: Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams received separate nominations for Album of the Year. Iggy Azalea was nominated for Best […]
Entertainment journalist and pop culture expert Jawn Murray joined Roland Martin Monday on “NewsOne Now” to recap the 2015 Golden Globe Awards. Murray tackled everything award related from Prince’s appearance, Bill Cosby jokes, the air conditioning not working during the awards broadcast and suggesting Kevin Hart should be next year’s Golden Globe Awards host. RELATED […]
“NewsOne Now” host Roland Martin sat down with actor/rapper Common who portrays Civil Rights activist James Bevel in the Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, “Selma.” During their chat about the critically acclaimed film, which has garnered four Golden Globe nominations, including nods for Best Motion Picture and Ava DuVernay for Best Director in the Motion […]
As much work as the people behind the Washington Post’s interactive project on “The N-Word” likely put in, its biggest and only beneficiaries are those who profited from the traffic it generated. Sure, the publication tried to argue the purpose of its package. When you venture on to the site, you are greeted with this message: “After the National […]
