Arts & Entertainment

Fashion legend Leon Talley was honored in elegant style at Emerge! A Fashion Runway Show, held Tuesday evening at New York’s City’s historic Broad Street Ballroom.

Nothing can be more exciting for theater-goers than a play that dares to tackle a subject rarely dealt with on stage, especially on a Broadway stage, and which does so with unpredictable twists and turns. One such subject is the relationship between a Black man and his sons, currently explored in the play Stick Fly at the Cort Theatre in New York City.

While the Patriots and the Giants faced off on the field, viewers were also interested in the super showdown among the advertisers.

Here’s a new thought: Will the Super Bowl, the culmination of months of planning, research and spending, be kind of an anticlimax?

In the 80’s, the Black alternative-rock band Fishbone hit the L.A. punk scene with a genre bending form of music that was anything but, mainstream. Here, bassist Norwood Fisher and I talk about the band, their new documentary, and the complexities of the music industry.

Hollywood’s two main actors’ unions, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, have merged unions.

In 1997, Cuba Gooding, Jr. won an Academy Award for his memorable outing as Rod “Show me the money!” Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. He has also earned two NAACP Image Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and he even has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

Here, he talks about his latest outing as Major Emanuelle Stance in Red Tails, a World War II epoch about the legendary Tuskegee Airmen.

Brenda Dixon Gottschild's new book, Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Bio-history of American Performance, is a timely testament to a legendary role model who inspired generations of little Black girls to reach for the stars in the face of a racist society that would just as soon crush their prima ballerina dreams.

Bill Haley, son of "Roots" author Alex Haley, will be featured in Oprah's tribute to the TV series which will be aired Monday, Jan. 16 at 8pm on OWN.

The Knicks are about to transform themselves from Coach Mike D’Antoni’s run and stun offense to a more traditional type of defensive-minded team.