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“I stand with my peers who are calling for change in expanding the stories that are told and recognition of the people who tell them”.

Conan O’Brien revealed the list of the artists who will perform at the Manchester, TN festival from June 9-12 on his Tuesday night show (Jan. 19).

Top Five actor Rock is set to host the awards ceremony on 28 February 2016 in Los Angeles but many members of the African-American community believe he should step down after a number of prominent black actors such as Idris Elba, Will Smith and the Straight Outta Compton cast,...

Apart from the best picture, best actor for DiCaprio and best director for Inarritu, the movie has bagged nominations for best supporting actor (Tom Hardy), best cinematography, sound editing, costume design, sound mixing, film editing, production design, visual effects and make...

Later in the same broadcast, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was asked about the controversy over this year’s completely white Academy Awards field of acting nominees, and Trump revealed that Dash had torn the scales from his eyes.

DeRozan went for 34 points as the Raptors beat the Celtics 115-109 in Toronto.

“We can’t say hocus pocus, presto changeo, and the [Academy] membership is going to change over night…”

It is now under fire again for a lack of diversity for the 88th Academy Awards, with all white nominees in the acting categories and male nominees for best director. “Boyhood” won for Best Picture-Drama at the Globes but Inarritu’s own film “Birdman”...

Amid calls for an Oscars boycott over its all-white acting nominees and Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith both announcing they would sit out this year’s ceremony, the academy’s president promised major changes. “All I said was my attractive wife, we’re not...

Announcing its lineup late Tuesday, Bonnaroo said that other headliners would include Dead and Company, the jam band that includes most surviving members of legendary countercultural act the Grateful Dead.

Not having people of color among the nominations – Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation) and Smith’s husband, Will Smith (Concussion), both were considered contenders – and ignoring Creed and Straight Outta Compton for best picture is “not just embarrassing for...

Should people of color refrain from participating all together? “But I can fly to LA for two or three days of meetings and never encounter an African American person in any position of power. With much respect in the midst of deep disappointment”.

Tim Gray, the awards editor for industry magazine Variety, said while he felt the nominations were “a good list”, he lamented some snubs, including for black actor Will Smith in National Football League drama “Concussion”.

Jada Pinkett Smith took to Facebook to address her comments about a lack of racial diversity at the 2016 Oscars and her intent to boycott the event alongside husband Will Smith, prior to an apology by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“I’m so proud to be counted among such great actors”, Malek told the chatty crowd.