After Beyoncé took home three wins out of her five nominations during night one of the non-televised winners for the 2023 NAACP Image Awards, night two, held on Tuesday (Feb. 21) awarded others for their literary works and television shows.
Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson, Tabitha Brown, Michelle Obama, and the late Michael K. Williams were among the winners during the second virtual reveal, hosted by Khleo Thomas. Davis won the award for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction for her memoir, Finding Me.
Many members of the Hispanic community have shared a truckload of impassioned disappointment in what should’ve been a momentous occasion for the young and old alike. The controversial whirlwind began when “Sofia the First” executive producer Jamie Mitchell acknowledged Disney’s latest Princess Sofia as the first-ever Hispanic Disney princess.
When pictures of the animated cutie surfaced, she was not equipped with any general characteristics of her said people. With her blue eyes, extremely fair skin and auburn hair, Latinas are claiming she might as well be European, which was all the more supported by Disney’s defense that Sofia was a “mixed heritage” Latina.
Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi, also known as Rae Sremmurd, brought their energy and their hit-song “Black Beatles” to the Ellen DeGeneres Show today (Jan. 16).
The theme for the wildly-popular “Mannequin Challenge” topped the charts for six straight weeks in 2016 and became the first number-one single for both The Brothers Sremm and their collaborator, Gucci Mane.
The duo got the audience to remain still for the beginning of the song, a nod to the viral sensation, before they all went wild during their vibrant performance.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky shared first snaps and video of their infant son over the weekend, seven months after the “Life Me Up” singer gave birth to the baby boy in May 2022.
Riri shared an adorable TikTok post Saturday of her and the little guy being driven around town as mom films him in his car seat. The cutie makes several silly faces and flashes an adorable smile as the “Work” singer gushes over her first born.
British funnyman Russell Brand knows a thing or two about comedy.
The former stand-up comedian and star of the riotous romp Get Him To The Greek (due out in theaters June 4) has been getting early raves for his wildly un-PC portrayal as Aldous Snow, the drug-abusing, womanizing, and eccentric rocker who must play a comeback show at The Greek Theater to save his shattered career. But according to Brand, he and co-star Jonah Hill did not provide the biggest laugh-inducing moments in the film.