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West ended his tirade with an album plug, but then pulled it down, along with much of his Twitter tirade.

Others, though, maintained that the academy’s steps don’t address the real problems of the industry.

Stars including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee and Mark Ruffalo have all spoken publicly about their disappointment that no black actors or actresses featured in the nominations for the 2016 awards.

Denver will now head to California next month to play the Panthers in the Super Bowl, after Carolina flattened the Arizona Cardinals 49-15 in the NFC Championship game.

However, Timereports that the real impetus for the shift – after not budging for nearly six decades – is that sales of Barbie dolls have dropped off. “Staying the course was not an option”, Eliana Dockterman writes for Time.

Following the social media firestorm since, Kanye has deleted his Twitter rampage.

Will Smith has mentioned that his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, announced she will not be attending the Oscars.

Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and CEO Dawn Hudson sit down exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter for this week’s issue of the magazine, to tackle all aspects of the #OscarsSoWhite discussion, including Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith’s boycott.

Episode VIII will now hit cinemas on 15 December 2017, pushed back seven months from the initial debut date of 26 May 2017. Production delays and mid-filming rewrites are classic signs of disaster to come, but surely Star Wars couldn’t revert back to prequel settings...

Some of the film industry’s most prominent African-Americans – including Will Smith (widely deemed as being snubbed in the Best Actor category for his performance in Concussion), his wife and fellow actor Jada Pinkett Smith, and director Spike Lee – have...

His fellow Barney Miller star, Hal Linden, 84, isn’t on Twitter so he spoke out in more traditional fashion, in an interview with the New York Daily News about his old friend.

The number of minorities now serving as members of the academy has not been revealed.

Coldplay is touring behind its latest album, A Head Full of Dreams, which dropped December 4, 2015.

Although the world No. 133 fell three wins shy of capturing a miracle, maiden Grand Slam title, Zhang said she’d leave Melbourne Park with no regrets. “Just add that into the mix, guys”, Konta said after her win over Zhang Shuai.

“I was always taught to speak well of the dead”. “He was a great star”. People don’t seem to stop and ask me anymore.