From The Grio – In the eight seasons of ABC’s The Bachelorette, the bachelorettes have always been beautiful. They have always been intelligent. They have always been warm and friendly. They have also always been white. But that is about to change if Misee Harris has her way. The 28-year-old African-American dentist is currently engaging in a social media…
From secret pregnancies to faked deaths, steamy romances to messy divorces and twisted schemes to family curses, soap operas once provided millions of Americans with a daily douse of drama and suspense. Today, soap lovers have very few programming options. General Hospital and The Young and the Restless still air, but many all-time favorites like Passions, As the World Turns and Guiding…
We may not hear her on the radio anymore or see her on the big screen too often, but rest assured the hip hop’s number one queen is always hard at work. Queen Latifah and her company Flavor Unit Entertainment have just signed a major deal with Netflix for an exclusive licensing agreement for movies…
If you tuned into last night’s “Oprah’s Next Chapter” interview with Cissy Houston, you saw a grieving mother reveal the pain of losing one of her beloved children. Cissy spoke her truth about her daughter, superstar Whitney Houston’s life from the singer’s battle with drugs, rumors of a gay relationship and allegedly abusive relationship with…
It’s hard to believe that almost a full year has passed since Whitney Houston’s untimely death. For many of her fans, the pain of losing Whitney still feels fresh. But no one mourns the superstar singer with the incredible four octave vocal range more than her mother, Cissy Houston. At the time of Whitney’s passing,…
Fashion inspiration isn’t merely found on the runways or even on the street. Sometimes the most stylish women display great fashion sense right on our TV screens. From the powerful and poised Olivia Pope to the impeccably dressed Claire Huxtable, we celebrate the 5 best-dressed characters on TV in no particular order. 1. Joan Clayton…
Maybe there is a foolproof way to combat reality television shows that feed offensive and negative stereotypes: petition, criticize and threaten to stop tuning in. The strategy reportedly worked for Oxygen’s latest reality show which featured rapper (and former Atlanta drug dealer) Shawty Lo and the ten women who mothered his eleven children. According to…
Gladiators, the wait is finally over and we can resume back to our regular breathing patterns now. The mega scandalous, political thriller is back in action and I’m sure I speak for us all self-proclaimed Gladiators, when I say I’ve missed every outrageous hiccup of this show. For a few weeks, radical TV was at a…
“Girls” received considerable flack for the first season’s treatment of race. Although the HBO series takes place in Brooklyn, New York, one of the most diverse boroughs in the most ethnically diverse city in the country, the characters are all lily-white. Lena Dunham, the show’s star, executive producer, writer and creator, told the crowd at…
NBC’s “Deception” starring Meagan Good and Laz Alonso premiered last night and the first episode of the season didn’t disappoint. The drama series casts Meagan Good as undercover detective Joanna Lacasto, who is approached by NYPD detective and former lover Will Moreno (Laz Alonso) to solve the murder case of her slain childhood friend and wealthy…
