(Photography: @realgeorgesully/Instagram)Toronto-based fashion entrepreneur George Sully is launching the award in collaboration with his foundation, Black Designers of Canada By Meaghan Wray Date February 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter Inclusion, representation and Black excellence are the cornerstones of celebrated designer George Sully’s newly announced initiative. In collaboration with his own foundation,...

Gina Carano has been dropped from The Mandalorian, Variety reports. Lucasfilm said the actress is not currently employed by the company after she drew criticism for “abhorrent” social media posts. Carano portrayed Cara Dune, a former Rebel trooper who became a Marshal for the New Republic, in the first two...

David F. Sandberg decided to go by Logan rules for Shazam!, imagining that the events of Man of Steel and Batman v Superman had really happened prior to Billy Batson’s origin story, but there was also the side of the world where action figures and such were made as a...

Alexus Braxton. (Facebook) Alexus ‘Kimmy Icon’ Braxton, a Black trans woman and “beloved daughter”, was found dead 4 February amid a surge of unrelenting violence that has left LGBT+ activists drained and alarmed. Braxton, 45, was killed in Miami, Florida, in an apartment complex in the northern Andover Lakes Estates...

In December I told you about the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Longlist. As promised, they have now released their finalists. The virtual Literary Awards Ceremony will be held on April 8, 2021. This $75,000 award is given to “a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and...

A week after being recorded on video using a racial slur, Morgan Wallen has issued a lengthy video statement in which he addresses the controversy, says he’s spoken to leaders in the black community, shares that he’s attempting to get sober, and admits that “my words matter.” He also delivered...

Jason Isbell has announced that he's donating any payments he receives from Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album, which contains a version of Isbell's "Cover Me Up," to the Nashville division of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).The singer-songwriter's decision comes after Wallen was caught on video using a...

Since releasing "Blurred Lines" in 2013, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams have faced controversy for all sorts of reasons.In 2015, the two musicians were ordered to posthumously award Marvin Gaye a songwriting credit on the song, after a federal jury found them responsible for copyright infringement.  The songwriting process was also a topic of...

The revealing film 'Framing Britney Spears' dives into the singer's conservatorship and her fight for freedom Britney Spears has been framed by the media in many ways: a Disney protégé, America’s “girl next door,” a Hollywood heartbreaker, a woman unhinged and an industry villain. Her image—this time, the real Britney—is...

The day I learned I’d been nominated for an Oscar, I was filming a small role for a new Black director. Just as I was delivering an important line, I heard laughter on the sidelines of the set. “Don’t they know we’re shooting in here?” I snapped. “What’s the matter...

Photography courtesy of De Lovét. GRAPHIC BY KAYLEEN DICUANGCO. The Canadian brand spreads encouragement with special messages inside its bags. By Odessa Paloma Parker Date February 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter When she launched her accessories-centric label in 2017, De Lovét founder Loveth Ezeifeka had one mission in mind. The former...

Stephen Colbert recapped the opening day of the second impeachment trial against former president Donald Trump and slammed the “cowardly” GOP senators that looked away from a video of the Capitol insurrection on Tuesday’s Late Show. “The prosecutors went straight to the heart with a devastating video proving the President’s...

There are a ton of possibilities for the Amazons spinoff if it does happen, and either way, it does feel like Antiope really lives in the fabric of that world. Wonder Woman’s mom, Queen Hippolyta, could be key to the film, or it could introduce new Amazons like Donna Troy...

London Green Party mayoral candidate Siân Berry. (NurPhoto via Getty/WIktor Szymanowicz) Siân Berry, the Green Party candidate for mayor of London, has said a commission and action plan on trans rights will be “one of the first things” she’ll do if elected. On Wednesday (10 February) the Green Party co-leader,...