Like Vanity Fair, the March edition of Essence is also the Hollywood Issue! Oprah is resplendent in ivory, surrounded by suited-up actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Forest Whitaker, and Michael B. Jordan. Inside, there's a beauty feature starring Lupita Nyong'o, so, you know, stay tuned for gorgeous pix.

Guys, I'm tired of writing this story, but here we go ... 2013 was a great year for black actors but shitty for black actresses. Womp, but at least it was good for one part of at least one minority group, right? Right?

Here's the trailer for the Oscar-bait movie The Butler, based off of a Washington Post article by Wil Haygood about Eugene Allen, a black man who was um, the butler at the White House for over three decades. Oprah plays his wife who has a strong southern accent and gets to slap someone when the film comes out in…

Alec Baldwin's yoga instructor wife Hilaria Baldwin née Thomas, who's been teaching at Manhattan's Yoga Vida since 2005, is being sued by a 32-year-old Yale Ph.D. candidate and HuffPo blogger named Spencer Wolfe, who cites an overcrowded class, her' "negligence" and her request that students "perform a dangerous…

Where The Wild Things Are isn't a film for children, but about them. Many critics love it, but others say it's "made by, and for, members of a generation who feel it's unfair to have to grow up."

While some may think of fashion — and fashion magazines — as shallow, Franca Sozzani says, "Fashion is not only about clothes." She believes that there are ways for the fashion business to be less superficial: To explore concepts and social awareness. Franca Sozzani created July's "all-black" issue of Vogue Italia,…

[Los Angeles, CA; February 24. Image via AP.]