"The Quad" actress shared her emotional story on the "SiriusXM's Make It Plain" show.

BET’s new show scripted show about a fictional Black college, The Quad, has generated some positive reviews. But its storylines that include a shady band director, a strip club-owning alumnus, a college president with secrets and issues of her own have angered others. Hampton University’s president, William R. Harvey had several issues with the show […]

It may be the golden age for Blacks on TV. The diversity of TV shows that feature African-Americans both in front of and behind the scenes is dizzying. Everyone from Donald ”Childish Gambino” Glover to Issa Rae is starring in and writing their own show, without having to cast a token white person to sell […]

We’re back and so is Power. The third episode, “I Got This On Lock” seems to start out as another show entirely. We get the bird’s-eye view of a pharmacy robbery in progress (shades of Menace II Society). One would-be robber seems a little more reluctant than the other. He texts somebody and then the cavalry […]

Radio One

Kanan's friend Jukebox, from back in the day, is helping him get back to good health, and once he's 100% all hell will break loose.

Anika Noni Rose has a new role in Starz's Power, and we cannot wait.

The Academy has learned its lesson from getting dragged for being so monotone, so the film organization is doing something about its glaring diversity problem. About 46 percent of new members of its voting body are people of color, but that still might not be enough to make a huge difference just yet. Society as […]

National

The Court of Special Appeals in Maryland, the state’s second-highest court, has ordered another trial and restored charges against a man from Northwest Baltimore who was acquitted in the murder of North Carolina native Phylicia Barnes. The court says Circuit Judge John Addison Howard committed a mistake in January 2015 when he acquitted Michael Johnson of […]