Say you’ve got two men in your life—a long-term guy who isn’t ready to commit, and somebody exciting you’ve known for all of two weeks. Which one do you pick? Well, why not ask a panel of guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show, including Queen Latifah?
I’m just writing to let you know that a grandpa in overalls and a farmer’s hat took down a bunch of paparazzi outside of an LA club after photographers started shoving his granddaughters. It was all for the sake of an group selfie with Kylie Jenner, and the dude kept a cigarette in his mouth the entire time. Sentences…
Queen Latifah is now attached as a lead in Lee Daniels’ untitled series about the Atlanta music industry that we’ll all be watching together.
NBC’s live musical The Wiz is reportedly looking to cast Beyoncé in the role of Glinda the Good Witch.
While the world rightfully celebrates Ava DuVernay’s skills with Selma, we might want to stay tuned to director Dee Rees too. The creative force behind HBO’s Bessie, Rees cut her teeth on the heart-wrenching independent film Pariah that left me in a puddle of tears by the credits and she brought the same raw, subtle…
At a party in Los Angeles on Thursday, Solange performed a new song called “Rise,” written about the heady times in Ferguson and Baltimore.
We currently occupy an era in which a great many pop artists are thirsting to associate themselves with the latest technologies—Madonna releasing new videos on Snapchat and Meerkat, Jay-Z’s acquisition of Tidal, etc.—with the assumption that these things will make them more accessible to the youth market or, at the…
HBO has released a full trailer for their upcoming Bessie Smith biopic, Bessie, starring Queen Latifah as the Empress of Blues. Co-starring alongside Latifah are Mo’Nique as Ma Rainey and Michael Kenneth Williams as Smith’s husband, Jack Gee.
I don't know much about Bessie Smith's life, but I love music and a good biopic—so when I learned about Queen Latifah playing the Blues icon in HBO's Bessie I was excited. The latest trailer makes it look better than anticipated, however, thanks to the casting of Michael K. Williams, who played Omar on The Wire …
Here's your first look at Queen Latifah as blues legend Bessie Smith for HBO's bio-pic Bessie. Based on her expression, she knows something you don't know.
Chris Rock called out Ben Roethlisberger on Tuesday night, reminding the media and the public that Bill Cosby isn't the only celebrity whose history of rape allegations was swept under the rug.
Queen Latifah will be hosting the 21st Annual Nobel Peace Prize concert, which takes place in Oslo, Norway. This means her life has just been a very long set-up to a "U.N.I.T.Y." joke.
Queen Latifah has cancelled a scheduled interview with Bill Cosby, as the rape allegations against the comedian resurface.
Brendan Jordan, in case you do not recognize him, is the Las Vegas teenager who gave amazing face in the background of a local newscast, and went viral with the YouTube clip "Kid goes full diva on live TV," which has over 3.8 million views and counting. Queen Latifah, appreciative of a good diva, sat down with…
Brandy is a goddess. MC Lyte is a goddess. Yo-Yo is a goddess. Queen Latifah is a Cover Girl spokeswoman goddess. Performing against a white backdrop and looking the very definition of flawless, this Fantastic Four basically recreated the video for Brandy's remix to her 1994 hit, "I Wanna Be Down" at the 2014 BET…
Russell Brand, a full time Victorian sex ghost and sometimes actor, has a lot of interesting thoughts about a lot of interesting things, including the institution of marriage and his ex-wife Katy Perry.
It feels as if someone started a rumor that 2014 might present a female resurgence in hip-hop. As a person with a vagina, I’d be thrilled if that happened — but I doubt the “Ladies Night” reprise is going down anytime soon. There are many reasons why women — with the exception of Nicki Minaj — are notably absent from…
In the aftermath of Justin Bieber's DUI arrest, a fellow (former) razzle-dazzle soft-shoe manchild thinks he knows how to get the wayward Canadian starlet back on track. Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean says he'd love to take Bieber under his great big bushy beard and confer upon him some sage man-band wisdom.
Hypothetically, let’s say that Queen Latifah had announced that she is a lesbian during Macklemore's snooze-worthy "Same Love" performance on the Grammy's Sunday night. If she'd broken the unspoken rule of keeping her open secret, how would her world have changed? Maybe Madonna would’ve been to hit those "Open Your…
Last night at the 40th annual People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles, there were some lovely gowns. There were also quite a few ugly dresses, as well as eyebrow-tugging painful hairdos, formal crop tops and caged cleavage. Egads.
