Earl Gibson/Bounce TV On June 19, 1865, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation — a document issued by President Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved Black Americans — first reached Galveston, Texas, two years after its signing. In honor of Juneteenth this…
Jamel Martin –HOT 97’s Summer Jam music festival took place on Sunday with performances by hip-hop favorites like Fivio Foreign, Dreamdoll and City Girls. B-Lovee and Dougie B kicked off the show and were later joined onstage by Cardi B to perform their hit song “Shake It.” Lil Baby‘s performance…
Combs Enterprises Sean “Diddy” Combs will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards 2022, BET announced Monday. In its 22nd year, the show deemed “culture’s biggest night,” will air live from the Microsoft Theater in L.A. on Sunday, June 26. The…
Todd Owyoung/NBC After the release of her sophomore studio album Heart on My Sleeve in May, Ella Mai is keeping the music coming with a new song and collaboration. The “Boo’d Up” singer announced her latest single “Keeps on Fallin” and it features legendary…
Warner Bros. Pictures According to a report in the UK Sun, a post-Oscars-slap Will Smith is planning to bring his Hollywood career back from the dead with a sequel to his 2007 zombie hit I Am Legend. The publication reports…
Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Jennifer Hudson joined an exclusive club on Sunday, achieving EGOT status with her Tony win for producing A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical written by Michael R. Jackson that follows a Black queer man who tries to write a musical while…
ABC/Yolanda Perez For People magazine‘s June Pride Month issue, Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts opens up about coming out to an important member of her family. She recalls telling her sister Dorothy she was gay and the support she received as a result of speaking her truth. …
From collaborative tracks by rap favorites to fresh new samples and holiday-centered projects, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest & greatest in music. —XXXTentacion, Look at Me: The Album — The new posthumous project coincides with the Hulu documentary on…
Republic Records “It’s all happening,” Kid Cudi says of the new song he dropped Friday, called “Do What I Want.” He previewed the new single earlier this week by sharing a teaser of his upcoming Netflix animated music TV series, Entergalactic — a project he says…
Elev8 Media & Entertainment With the release of his 15th studio album, Substance, on Friday, gospel great Marvin Sapp is showing no sign of slowing down. The 50-minute project boasts 11 message-oriented tracks that, as Apple Music puts it, are “rooted in soulful pop-gospel…