Doug Peters/PA Images via Getty Images Denzel Washington has been awarded a surprise honorary Palme d’Or. The honor was given to Washington during the world premiere of his newest film, Highest 2 Lowest, at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter shared a video of Washington accepting his career achievement award on Monday. The…
Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images Bobby Brown has dealt some tough losses in his life, including the deaths of two of his children, Bobbi Kristina and Bobby Brown Jr., and former wife Whitney Houston. Speaking with Jennifer Hudson on her daytime talk show, he credits therapy and his family for helping him navigate his grief. “Lots of prayer, first and foremost,…
Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for AfroTech This story may contain accounts and descriptions of actual or alleged events that some readers may find disturbing. Danity Kane and Diddy – Dirty Money member Dawn Richard has returned to the witness stand to continue her testimony from last week in the trial against Sean “Diddy”…
Greenback Records Xzibit has a new album, titled Kingmaker, coming out Friday. Marking his first album since 2012, he says that his years of experience in the game eliminated any form of self-doubt about releasing new music. “I think the benefit of being able to have had a career spanning from 1996 to now, the self-doubt kinda [goes]…
Jamie McCarthy/WireImage The Weeknd appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon May 15 and spoke about what a huge Tom Cruise fan he was, but said he’d never met the actor. Well, that changed just days later, when the singer met Cruise at the premiere of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. While on Fallon, The…
Chrris Lowe/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME Hannaha Hall is back for another season of The Chi. Season 7 premiered Friday, capturing her character, Tiffany, learning her boyfriend, Rob (Iman Shumpert), had been shot to death. Knowing the grief Tiff would go through in this new season, she tells ABC Audio she had to unplug from the rest…
Johnny Nunez/WireImage This story may contain accounts and descriptions of actual or alleged events that some readers may find disturbing. After four days on the witness stand, Cassie Ventura concluded her testimony Friday at the trial of her ex-boyfriend Sean Combs. Ventura, through a statement read by her attorney Douglas Wigdor outside court, thanked her supporters…
Photo by JP Yim/Getty Images YG is entering a new era of maturation, as heard in his new song “2004.” He uses his platform as a rapper to open up about an experience he’s learned is quite common for men in the Black community:Â being a victim of sexual abuse. YG tells ABC News Live he…
Tee Grizzley released a new album, Forever My Moment, a sonic and thematic continuation of his 2024 album Post Traumatic about survival, trauma and transformation. It boasts 14 new tracks that each blend “raw emotion with hard-earned perspective,” a press release says. The record is accompanied by an interactive video game, Robbery Da Game, which unlocks pieces of…
7 Wallace La di da Di. Slick Rick likes to party, but he apparently also likes to make some music. Twenty-six years after releasing his last album, The Ruler will make his return with Victory, a visual album set to arrive on June 13. Slick worked on the album for four years, writing and recording it…
