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Bill Cosby performs at the 7th annual ‘Stand Up For Heroes’ event at Madison Square Garden on November 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Bill Cosby could be returning to the NBC network with a new comedy as soon as next summer.

The series, described as a “classic, extended-family sitcom” with Cosby as the patriarch, is currently in the writing stage, NBC executives said at Sunday’s session of the summer TV critics’ tour. It was first announced in January.

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The following post contains details from the first and second seasons of Orange Is the New Black. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you.)

I love my Don Drapers and Walter Whites, but we were long overdue for a Piper Chapman. She’s the main character of Orange Is the New Black, a Brooklyn yuppie serving time for crimes committed in her adventurous youth (based on the real-life Piper Kerman, whose memoir inspired the show). Her story is not, at least after two seasons, a

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The recent Hollywood influx of successful faith-based films has paved the way for Christian filmmakers, producers and executives to get a seat at the table.

Among the latest beneficiaries is 36-year-old preacher and movie executive DeVon Franklin, who has inked a first-look production deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

EEW Magazine sources have confirmed reports that the faith-based film enthusiast is leaving his post as Senior Vice President of Production for Columbi

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Bobbi Kristina Brown attends the premiere of “Sparkle” at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Aug. 16, 2012 in Hollywood.
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Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is furious over the upcoming Lifetime biopic about her iconic mother’s life.

The 21-year-old had some harsh words for Angela Bassett, who recently gave an interview with Entertainment Weekly’s correspondent Nina Terrero discussing the TV movie which she’s set to begin directing later this year.

During h

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Beyoncé was named Forbes' most powerful celebrity of the year in a list unveiled Monday, snatching the top spot from Oprah Winfrey and joining six more African Americans in the top 10 of the magazine's Celebrity 100.

The singer earns an estimated $115m per year, making $2.4m per stop on the massive On the Run tour. Her husband Jay-Z is part of the same tour and also mad

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Tracy Morgan (Photo: Cliff Owen, AP)

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan has been upgraded to fair condition following the New Jersey highway crash that badly injured him and killed one of his friends, his spokesman said Monday.

“His personality is certainly starting to come back as well,” spokesman Lewis Kay said.

The 45-year-old former Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock star suffered broken ribs and a broken leg in the June 7 crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. The crash killed fellow comedian Jame

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Move over L.A. Preachers, Preacher’s Daughters, Housewives , Hollywood Exes and Love and Hip Hop.

Here comes the holy truth!

There is a new show being kicked around that is set for air and signing any day now. It’s called Preacher’s Exes.

The cast of the Preacher’s Exes currently stands as Lynn Littlejohn, Ysidra M. Kyles, daughter of Church Of God In Christ (COGIC) in Houston, Texas Rufus Kyles, Rochelle Wallace, DiShan Winters, and Cheron K Griffin II.

In the teaser reel of the show Griffin

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November 4, 2008 is a date that will always be remembered. Not only is it the day America elected its first African-American president, Barack Obama. But, it is also the day that Aziz “Zee” Peregrino-Brimah and business partner, Bobby “Tre9” Herring, re-launched the industry-changing website, DaSouth.com. 
Bringing the 24-hour news and social media cycle to Christian Hip Hop, DaSouth.com introduced countless independent artists to the world – making many of them household names. From opening
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Jay-Z and Beyonce attend the ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’ Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)

If you haven’t heard, TMZ has obtained footage of what appears to be Solange Knowles attacking Jay Z in an elevator at the Standard Hotel in New York City.

The alleged altercation went down at a Met Gala after-party last week at the Standard Hotel.

Hours after the alleged altercation, Beyoncé posted a messag

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A 2010 issue of JET magazine.
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First Newsweek, then Ladies Home Journal.

Now Jet.

The magazine, which was founded in 1951, is joining an ever-lengthening list of dying print publications.

Johnson Publishing announced today that Jet will transition to a digital magazine app at the end of June.

Jet has the third-largest circulation in the African-American magazine market with 700,000, behind Ebony and Essence.

“Almost 63 years ago, my father, John Johnson, named the publication Jet b

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The court of public opinion has been working overtime weighing in on a photo that has popped up online  of Willow Smith, 13, lounging in bed with actor Moises Arias, 20.

The photo, which has an intimate feel even though Willow is fully clothed, is said to be “raising eyebrows.”

Some of the comments:

“Will must be livid.”

“Siiick.”

“Inappropriate?”

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Source: USA Today | Ann Oldenburg

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Oprah Winfrey will reportedly produce the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic “Selma.” (Matt Sayles / Associated Press / August 12, 2013)

This is the first of a two-part world exclusive interview with Barbara Winfrey, the ex-wife of Oprah's father Vernon. In Part 2, to be published tomorrow, Mrs. Winfrey will reveal the shocking details of the big blowup between Oprah and her boyfriend Stedman Graham, the truth about her relationship with Gayle King and how she really feels about being in her own

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The last time fans of Wesley Snipes saw him in a major blockbuster movie was a decade ago inBlade: Trinity.

Since then, the Jungle Fever star appeared a slew of direct-to-DVD films and small-budget projects.

In 2010 Snipes began serving a 3-year prison sentence after being convicted on tax evasion charges.

Last year Snipes signed on for his first major post-prison gig, a starring role alongside Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Jet Li, Kelsey Grammer and Arnold Schwarzenegger in 

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In this March 17 photo, R&B singer Chris Brown appears at a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney Mark Geragos (right). (LUCY NICHOLSON/AP)

The Grammy winner has pleaded not guilty to punching a man in the face outside a Washington hotel in October, and his lawyers plan to argue for dismissal Monday.

Chris Brown’s entourage includes some unwanted new members — armed U.S. marshals.

The Grammy winner was collected from a Los Angeles lockup Wednesday and was out of California,

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Russell Crowe in “Noah.” (Credit ILM/Paramount Pictures)

Viewers went to “Noah,” many in pairs, like the creatures in Genesis; but they quickly erupted in disagreement over the film’s action-packed, modernist rendering of the biblical flood.

With an estimated $44 million in domestic ticket sales, including $6.2 million from giant Imax screens, “Noah” (Paramount Pictures) surpassed Lionsgate’s “Divergent,” with $26.5 million, and Walt Disney’s “Muppets Most Wanted, with $11.4 million, to lead

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Performer Diana Ross watches as President Barack Obama speaks during the ‘Christmas in Washington’ concert, attended by President Barack Obama, at the National Building Museum on December 9, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The concert benefits the National Childrens Medical Center and is hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien. (Molly Riley-Pool/Getty Images)

Diana Ross was born March 26, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. She was born to a U.S. Army soldier father and a schoolteacher mother and raised in the proj

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A poster from ‘Noah’ (Facebook)

Christian author and spoken-word artist Jefferson Bethke took to social media to express his enthusiasm for the upcoming “Noah” film. He also expressed his confusion on why Christians have been so critical of the movie’s fidelity to the Bible.

“Does anyone else find it fascinating that Son of God got little backlash, because it was marketed to Christians & churches, yet Noah isn’t marketed to the Church and is getting a ton of backlash? Even though both took s

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In this Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, actor Columbus Short arrives at the 14th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards at the The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Short was arrested on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, on a felony battery case filed after he knocked a man out in a West Hollywood restaurant during an altercation on March 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

Columbus Short, a lead actor on the television series “Scandal,” was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge that he seri

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Pop star Rihanna appears in the music video “What Now.” (PHOTO: YOUTUBE SCREENGRAB)

Insisting that he does not “usually do this,” actor and outspoken Christian Stephen Baldwin posted a message online Tuesday that he says the Holy Spirit revealed to him while watching pop star Rihanna’s emotional and gritty “What Now” music video.

“I usually don’t do this but just saw the @rihanna vid ‘what now’ near the end they flash the cross & the next thing she sings … is ‘I don’t know where to go’ & the

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