Paula Deen failed to appear at her scheduled “Today” show interview this morning, where she was supposed to answer questions about her past use of…

CNN’s John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Source of that description…

  After producer Mark Burnett and his wife, actress Roma Downey referred to the Bible as “the most read, most influential book of all time,” the first episode of their new mini-series on History…

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If you don’t know who Leonard Cooper is, read on ’cause this young brother is someone you need to know about. You see, the cool, calm, collected…

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Can you imagine Cedric The Entertainer being a Pastor?  Well he will… *Going boldly after its target audience, TV Land has chosen specific African American websites to preview its “Hot in Cleveland” spinoff “The Soul Man.” As previously reported, the half-hour comedy (formerly called “Have Faith”) stars Cedric the Entertainer as R&B singer Boyce “The […]

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Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall leaving BET’s ‘The Game’ before new season OMG I am soooo upset right now!  Say it ain’t so! BET is not getting rid of the one married couple that is trying to display black love!! I have not really been a fan of the entire direction of the show; however, […]

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*Gladys Knight was voted off of “Dancing With the Stars” last night, but she says the exit is bittersweet. The 67-year-old music legend started a health program shortly before partnering up with Tristan MacManus for the show and it’s resulted in a the loss of 60 pounds. “[Tristan] helped [by] wearing me out,” Knight told […]

Sources tell BMS that CNN anchor T.J. Holmes is leaving the network at the end of this year. Holmes who joined CNN in October 2006…

After months of failing to live up to the success of her extraordinarily popular television talk show, Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network is undergoing a makeover. According to Forbes, Winfrey and Discovery Communications is upping the network’s advertising push as well as featuring two of the network’s biggest stars, Winfrey herself and Rosie O’Donnell. Adding to a […]

A low-budget, yet popular web-series titled “The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl,” has received huge contributions from thousands of supporters to continue production of…

A woman who believes “luck is preparation meeting opportunity,” Oprah Gail Winfrey has continuously shattered gender and racial barriers in America. Winfrey is the most successful talk show host in American TV history — male or female, Black or white — and the first female African-American billionaire. As one of the most influential women in […]

Last week we opened the voting for our Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition.  Yesterday voting closed for round 1 and we’re down from 64 shows to 32. Based on the seeding of the editorial team we didn’t see any upset loses although we were surprised to see the short-lived 90’s sitcom “Thea” beat out the […]