Gabriel Williams

This past weekend, Atlanta natives Sean Garrett and Lil Yachty shot the visuals to the wildly successful single “Look On Your Face.” Released just a couple months ago, the single is steadily climbing the charts and currently among the top 5 independent singles in the country. The single has generated over 500,000 Spotify streams since […]

Yesterday, Scream Queens star Keke Palmer sat down with Larry King on the multi-Emmy nominated series Larry King Now to discuss her recent Instagram post, in which she claims that R&B singer Trey Songz used “sexual intimidation” to coerce her into his music video shoot, and then released the video publicly without her consent. Keke recounted: […]

BET completely racked up in numbers from Part 1 the highly anticipated 3-part miniseries, The New Edition Story. The most-talked about biopic drew in 2.5MM viewers P18-49, and 4.2MM total viewers P2+ on Black Entertainment Television. Teaming up with their sister network Centric the telecast scored 2.6MM viewers P18-49, and 4.4MM total viewers across both networks. […]

The Blackhouse Foundation continued with their 2017 Sundance event line-up on Sunday, hosting a discussion about black masculinity featuring Oscar winner and activist Common discussing the bridge of social activism and art, and The Making of Burning Sands. The Campaign for Black Male Achievement and Blackhouse were the event sponsors. “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times” […]

The 2017 Oscar Nominations have been announced and the nominees paired with Black Magic is astounding! Ending off the list were the picks for Best Picture which included Moonlight, Hidden Figures, Fences, Arrival, La La Land, Manchester of The Sea and more. In total, a number of 7 African-Americans have been nominated for the iconic accolade. […]

Today, the Women’s March on Washington announced that music icons Janelle Monáe, Maxwell, and Angelique Kidjo will be performing at the Women’s March on Washington, which will take place in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2017. Additional performers include Toshi Reagon, Samantha Ronson, Emily Wells, DJ Rekha, MC Lyte, St. Beauty, Beverly Bond, Alia Sharief, […]

Time Inc.’s (NYSE:TIME) Essence, the preeminent brand for African-American women, will host its highly anticipated 8th annual “Black Women in Music”—an official GRAMMY Week event—on Thursday, February 9, in Los Angeles. The invitation-only soiree will salute the year’s extraordinary GRAMMY nominees and fête four-time GRAMMY winner Erykah Badu on the 20th anniversary of her groundbreaking […]

Coming off the musical eloquence of A Seat At The Table, Solange Knowles graces the cover of Interview Magazine. Bringing things back full circle as she just interviewed her Mother, Tina Lawson and her Father, Mathew Knowles on her highly praised album, Solo thought it was only right to have her big sis Beyonce curate her […]

Last night, A24 and FX took home Golden Globes for the critically acclaimed film Moonlight and the hit new comedy series “Atlanta,” respectively. Going into the evening with six nominations, Moonlight won the night’s most prestigious prize: “Best Motion Picture – Drama,” while “Atlanta” earned “Best Musical or Comedy TV Series” and “Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy” for […]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOo5lWXhVnT/?taken-by=slayitlikejlo Jennifer Lopez‘s Instagram Fan Page, @SlayItLikeJLo just gave us all the tea that we needed. But were the visuals and photos from an actual video shoot set? Why a Prom at the end of December? https://www.instagram.com/p/BOowpeMhcJ6/?taken-by=slayitlikejlo Last night, Drake and J. Lo held an alleged exclusive themed-party called Wonderland Prom where the two experienced a […]

2016 is just not giving up. Known as Princess Leia in the classic film Star Wars, Carrie Fisher has reportedly passed away at the age of 60. The veteran actress died on Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack while on a flight from London to LAX. According to TMZ: Fisher was on a flight […]