Before Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made ...

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Orange Is the New Black star Taryn Manning sparked concern with her disheveled appearance on Monday as she stepped out in Los Angeles. The actress, 46, looked markedly different from her ...

I n the 95 years that they’ve been handing out Academy Awards, just 10 African-American actresses have won dating back to Hattie McDaniel’s famed supporting actress triumph for “Gone with ...

New Delhi: African-American actress and singer Mary Millben has raised her voice against the imprisonment of Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das and the continued attacks against Hindus saying the ...

The new film 'Nickel Boys' is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and it focuses on the friendship ...

Broadway’s Wicked will welcome two new witches to the stage this spring, with Lencia Kebede serving as the first Black actress to play Elphaba Thropp full-time. Kebede takes over the role from ...

Her directing credits included The Brothers and Day Trips. As an actor, she was in Take a Giant Step, Black Monday, Trainer Dean Liepolt and Company, The Ofay Watcher and Every Night When the Sun ...

Wicked is getting a new Elphaba, and she’s about to make history: Lencia Kebede will be the first Black actress to assume the role full time in the Broadway company. Kebede, who recently starred ...