Morgan Freeman

WISCONSIN — Actor Morgan Freeman is livid with conservatives for using what he believes to be his voice in a campaign ad against a democratic opponent in the state of Wisconsin. Freeman made it clear that he did not authorize the use of his voice or its likeness for the video. Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]

Together with Bob Johnson, the founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, Morgan Freeman has created an online auction to support a disaster preparedness program for this summer’s ensuing hurricane season. Called “PLAN!T NOW,” the program works with nonprofit, home-rebuilding, and federal climate science divisions, and offers scholarships to students whose lives have been affected […]

CULVER CITY, Calif. – Standing on the soundstage where Fred Astaire once danced and Dorothy skipped down the yellow brick road, Morgan Freeman accepted the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award. Clint Eastwood, Sidney Poitier, Helen Mirren, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Robbins and Forest Whitaker were among the stars who feted Freeman during a ceremony […]

From The Hollywood Reporter By Pamela McClintock and Tim Appelo When Kenneth Branagh cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in the upcoming summer tentpole Thor, a furious debate erupted among fanboys, with some insisting it was wrong for a black man to play a Nordic god. But the London-born actor has no patience for the debate. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones had two questions he needed answered before agreeing to join the Broadway production of “Driving Miss Daisy.” He called up the director, David Esbjornson. “I said, ‘OK, am I going to have to dye my hair a little blacker?'” “Nope,” said the director. Pleased, Jones asked his second […]

JACKSON, Miss. — Actor Morgan Freeman and his wife have finalized their divorce in Mississippi. A Tallahatchie County judge entered the divorce decree on Sept. 15, William R. Wright, an attorney who represented Freeman, told The Associated Press. Terms of the divorce are sealed, Wright said. “It was done without a trial,” Wright said Friday. […]

The Kennedy Center awards were presented Saturday night at a State Department dinner. Rice addressed each honoree, beginning with Freeman, who once played the president in the movie “Deep Impact.” “I know that when you played the African-American president of the United States, most people thought that would happen when a comet hit,” Rice said, […]