The Best Blacktresses: Viola Davis, Andra Day, and Black ladies continue to sing the Oscar blues
In the last of this seven-part series, a little bit of history repeating, a controversial Best Actress year, and looking to the future. Read here.
The Best Blacktresses: Viola Davis, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ruth Negga, Cynthia Erivo, and #OscarsSoWhite
The Best Blacktresses: 2010s — Not since the '70s has one decade had so many Black Best Actress Oscar nominees. Then why the backlash? Read here.
The Best Blacktresses: Halle Berry wins the Oscar, fulfilling Dorothy Dandridge's promise, and introducing Gabourey Sidibe
The Best Blacktresses: 2000s — In 2002, Berry became the first, and still only, Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar, but what, if anything, did it do for her career? Read here.
The Best Blacktresses: Angela Bassett and what Oscar snubs had to do with it
The Best Blacktresses: 1990s — Bassett’s breakthrough role as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It established her as the top Black actress of the decade, even as parts afterwards were rarely worthy of her talents. Read here.
The Best Blacktresses: Whoopi Goldberg and breaking the movie star mold
The Best Blacktresses: 1980s — The enduring brilliance of Whoopi Goldberg, nominated for Best Actress for 1985's The Color Purple. Read here.
The Best Blacktresses: Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, and kicking open the Oscars' front door
The Best Blacktresses: 1970s — Three completely different actresses in three completely different roles ushered in bold, new characterizations of Black women on film. Read here.
The Best Blacktresses: Dorothy Dandridge and the burden of being first Black Best Actress Oscar nominee
The Best Blacktresses: 1950s — Dandridge was the first Black woman nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, for her groundbreaking role in Carmen Jones. Just 10 years later, she died penniless and all but forgotten. Read here.
Death Becomes Herses: 'Sunset Boulevard,' 'The Substance,' and the tragedy/triumph of being 50 going on 25
The pictures may have gotten smaller, but these women are still big. Read here.
'The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' finale drops one of the biggest bombs in franchise history
Monica Garcia All About Eve'd her way onto the show after being a part of an Instagram account that trolled the cast. Read here.
How Vanessa Williams lost the Miss America crown but won over Hollywood
40 years ago today, Williams was stripped of her Miss America crown. Here's how she got the last laugh. Read here.
'The Wiz' review: Run, don't ease, on down the road to this spectacular revival of the classic musical
A sensational cast, including Deborah Cox and Wayne Brady, as well as a few notable updates, makes this perhaps the best iteration of "The Wiz" yet. Read here.
'Lempicka' review: The artist’s life is painted with broad and messy brush strokes in new musical
Eden Espinosa stars as famed painter Tamara Lempicka, but the show truly belongs to her lover Rafaela, played by Amber Iman. Read here.
'Appropriate' review: Sarah Paulson is monumental among a stellar cast in searing family dramedy
Elle Fanning, Corey Stoll, Natalie Gold, and Michael Esper also star in the Broadway debut of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2013 play. Read here.
Conan O'Brien's 'Hot Ones' episode is a truly unhinged work of comedic brilliance
"I've never felt so alive! I'm erect for the first time in 15 years!" Read here.
How 'American Fiction' is re-writing the book on Black stereotypes (Dec. 2023)
My first cover story for Entertainment Weekly. Read here.
Help! There's too many dicks in my face!
Naked Attraction purports to be a novel approach to dating, but if you’re a gay man, it’s just business as usual. Read here.
On Tina Turner and what it meant to be the Queen of Rock & Roll
A fool in love. An acid queen. A private dancer. Tina Turner was all that, and so much more. Read here.
'Prima Facie' review: Jodie Comer makes a remarkable Broadway debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman show
After an acclaimed West End run, the Olivier-award winning play opens on Broadway for a limited 10-week run at the Golden Theatre. Read here.
30 years ago Janet Jackson's 'Janet' album reinvented the modern pop diva
That’s the way legends go. Read here.
'Little Richard: I Am Everything' director on re-crowning the King of Rock & Roll, his sexuality, and legacy
"This history is our history, and it is important for it not to be erased" says Lisa Cortés of the iconoclastic artist. Read here.