Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan confirm ‘Best Man 2′

December 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Actors Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan have confirmed that the “Best Man 2″ is in the works. The two actors are crucial to getting a sequel made as Diggs played Harper, a young author who writes a revealing book about college friends. And it comes out on the eve of his best friend’s wedding, ...

Nia Long gives birth to baby boy

November 10, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Blactress Nia Long has given birth to a baby boy, her rep confirms. A representative for the 41-year-old actress says Long gave birth Monday to son Kez Sunday Udoka. The baby is her second child overall and first with professional basketball player beau Ime Udoka, according to news reports. Read: Alicia Keys gives birth ...

Nia long is pregnant, shows baby bump @ beach (PIC)

June 16, 2011 3 Comments

Tweet Nia Long is preggers and expecting a child with NBA player Ime Udoka. Long showed off the baby bump in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico recently. That makes Long a real basketball wife, joining a sorority of colorful characters. Udoka is a Nigerian player for the San Antonio Spurs. He averaged 0.7 points last season. Yep. ...

Nia Long gives back to Caribbean kids (VIDEO)

June 14, 2011 1 Comment

Tweet Actress Nia Long, who has Trinidad roots, recently lended her celebrity to underprivileged children in the Caribbean. The Children of the Caribbean Foundation (COTC) and their Every Child Matters campaign by helping raise money for underprivileged children and poor schools in the Caribbean region. “When you start to think about the next generation of people that ...

Nia Long is back with “Moozlum” (video)

February 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet For Nia Long, it’s been a long time since “Boyz in the Hood”. Back then the cherubic brown skin 21-year-old was cast in John Singleton’s inner city masterpiece as a young actress new to Hollywood. In the mid-1990s, network television viewers got to know Long, hilariously, as she played Will Smith’s girlfriend and fiancée Beulah ...

Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Gabrielle Union speak on industry ‘sisterhood’ (VIDEO)

November 25, 2010 3 Comments

Tweet “There is a sisterhood, a real sisterhood in this industry among black women,” actress Sanaa Lathan says in a “Behind the Cover” clip from Essence Magazine. “It’s real, it’s not for press,” Lathan says of the bond the women share. Lathan, Nia Long and Gabrielle Union all got to play dress up amid the ...

Plight of the Blactress: Shallow roles, low pay

August 17, 2009 2 Comments

Tweet They are underworked. Underpaid. Underappreciated, and when they are working, it is more derogatory roles no self-respecting thespian would dare agree to portray. But yet there they are, the black actresses of Hollywood, the few, the proud, the Moreens, the Saquishas, the ghetto chicks in the ‘hood. Why do they get all the terrible ...

Chris Rock's "Good Hair" unbeweavable

January 21, 2009 1 Comment

Tweet Comedian Chris Rock said he was apprehensive about bringing his documentary about the black hair experience to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week. “Because I think this is the blackest movie ever made,” said Rock, a producer and co-writer on the film. “So I was kind of scared to come to Utah, ...

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