Check out this week’s fabulous Twitter and Instagram photos from some of our fave celebs!
What’s your favorite photo of the bunch?
From beauty to style, stirring up everything that chic brown girls love!
Check out this week’s fabulous Twitter and Instagram photos from some of our fave celebs!
What’s your favorite photo of the bunch?
Back in 2011 when I interviewed Queen Latifah, I didn’ think it was humanly possible for the her to add one more job to her resume. Boy was I wrong!
The multi-talented entertainer, 43, is not only back with a brand new daytime talk show debuting today (check your local listings for times), but she’s also recently been named the new face of Pantene’s popular Relaxed & Natural haircare brand. Already a Grammy-award winning rapper/singer, Oscar-nominated actress, host, author, film/TV/web producer, and CoverGirl, Latifah is quickly becoming the queen of all entertainment.
Although this isn’t her first ride on the daytime talk show rodeo, Latifah will surely bring a fresh perspective to the new “Queen Latifah Show,” that gained fans back in the 90s.
Check out a clip here:
Will you tune in today? Did you watch “The Queen Latifah Show” back in the day?
If you’ve missed seeing Tia Mowry-Hardrict aka “Melanie” on “The Game,” well the famous twin is coming back to scripted TV this month!
The mom, author and entrepreneur, 35, will star in NickMom’s brand new half-hour series, “Instant Mom,” premiering Sunday, September 29 at 8:30PM EST on Nick at Nite.
Mowry-Hardrict will portray “Stephanie,” a former party girl who now has to embark upon the unchartered territory of parenting as she is thrust into step-motherhood. Michael Boatman co-stars as her husband, ” Charlie,” who is the father to their three kids. Throughout the series, “Stephanie,” is constantly trying to balance parenthood while maintaining a sense of her former free-spirited and fun-loving self.
TV sitcom veteran Sheryl Lee Ralph rounds out the cast as “Stephanie’s” mother.
Check out the trailer below:
Are you a fan of Tia Mowry-Hardrict? If so, be sure to catch her on the hit reality series, “Tia & Tamera” Sundays on the Style Network and in the upcoming Fox Searchlight film, Baggage Claim later this month!
Attention all gladiators!
One of our favorite BGs, Kerry Washington, is gracing the October issue of Glamour. The newlywed and star of ABC’s runaway hit, “Scandal,” looks nothing less than stunning on the cover of the popular glossy. Photographed by Peggy Sirota, Washington beams with radiance while wearing some of the season’s hottest fashions.
Kerry Washington on the cover of Glamour, October 2013. Photos by: Peggy Sirota
In the issue, the Bronx-born beauty chats it up with Glamour’s editor-in-chief, Cindi Leive to discuss balancing her many hats: wife, actress, political activist, and more!
Check out this excerpt:
CINDI LEIVE: You’re so close to your parents. Were they OK with your career choice?
KERRY WASHINGTON: When I said that this is what I wanted to do, my mother literally cried. She didn’t want me to experience all that rejection. They both would have preferred me to have been a lawyer.… [After college] I gave myself a year to make it in acting and was living in my parents’ house teaching beginner’s yoga when I got my first part, in Our Song. Then I got Save the Last Dance.… Now they’re really behind me. And I’m always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.
CL: [Laughs.] I want to ask about fashion too. At what point did it start to be fun, or is it still kind of something you do because it’s part of the job?
KW: It started out as, like, Good-Student Kerry. OK, I’m going to admit this: There were a couple of actresses whom I felt were having the upper hand careerwise—because they knew how to work that red carpet. I was like, “I’m missing a really important tool. If I am the CEO of the Kerry Washington Corporation, my marketing department is really lax.” So I sort of developed a new character: Red-Carpet Kerry
CL: I love that.
KW: And I researched her like any other character. I actually called Tracee Ellis Ross [the actress and Diana Ross’s daughter], who’s a good friend, and literally asked, “How do you pronounce Hermès?” Red-Carpet Kerry needed to know.
CL: The longshoreman kicked in.
KW: Exactly. The professor’s daughter kicked in. I was doing library hours on fashion. And then it happened—I was in love.
CL: And the fashion on Scandal is a whole other story. All that white! Did that come from you?
KW: From me and the costume designer Lyn Paolo. And the pants—that Olivia wears pants—that was mine, because I really wanted her to wear the pants in that relationship.
CL: I’ve heard that people have been walking into Prada and asking for the Olivia Pope purse.
KW: And Movado for the Olivia Pope watch. My mother was like, “I think I want an Olivia Pope watch for Mother’s Day.”
CL: Your mom is shopping off “Scandal?” I think your parents are officially OK with your job. So what’s in the Prada bag?
KW: [Laughs.] Usually folders, pens, the phone on the show, and often a bottle of water to add a nice weight to the bag. And some panties in one episode!
CL: I love the whole idea of “gladiators” [Olivia’s term for her employees and, now, what fans of the show call themselves.] So who are your gladiators?
KW: My closest girlfriends from college, and I’m really close to the girls on the show. It’s a sisterhood.… That’s the big thing that really differentiates me from Olivia: She compartmentalizes her relationships. I really try to let my friends into all of my life. They know that Red-Carpet Kerry is a version of Kerry, and they know that DNC Speaker Kerry is me.
CL: OK, so relationships. In interview after interview, you always use the samephrase: “I don’t talk about my personal life.” I’m curious about the discipline that it requires to be so tight-lipped.
KW: I learned through experience that it doesn’t work for me to talk about my personal life. I’ve had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it. I was on the cover of a bridal magazine [InStyle Weddings, in 2005, when Washington was engaged to actor David Moscow]. But I couldn’t just turn around and say, “I only want to talk about the good stuff, but not the bad stuff.” So I just thought, “OK, no more.”
CL: You even managed to get married in June without anyone knowing.
KW: Absolutely! I’m walking around in the world with my ring. And when people say congratulations, I say thank you. But I’m going to continue to not talk about it and just let it unfold.
CL: It must have been satisfying to pull off a wedding with no press around.
KW: [Laughs.]I don’t want to sound smug about it…but the point is to do what’s best for me. I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.
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Are you excited for the season three premiere of “Scandal?” If so, be sure to tune in to ABC on Thursday, Oct 3, 10PM EST.
There’s good news for all of the “Doc McStuffins‘” fans in your life, the hit animated Disney series is coming back for a second season with brand new shows starting Friday, September 6.
If you don’t have a child (2-7) in the house, you may not be familiar with the show, but you should be! It’s a groundbreaking cartoon that features a cute little brown girl named “Doc” who emulates her mother (who is a doctor) by caring for and fixing her broken and ailing toys.
“Doc McStuffins” season two premieres, Friday, Sept. 6 on DisneyJunior.
My daughter, Ava, has been a fan of the series since its premiere last year. It’s such a refreshing show because it entertains children while teaching them the importance of being healthy. Plus, it helps take the fear out of visiting the doctor and gives them aspirations beyond being a pretty princess.
For the past few weeks the show has gone on the road. Last month, the “Doc Mobile” kicked off a multi-city tour in Boston. Themed “So Much You Can Do…to Take Car of You,” the 27-foot custom-made trailer houses a fun and interactive experience for all of the mini doctors-in-training. In addition, there is an opportunity for parents and children to meet real-life female African-American doctors from the organization, Artemis Medical Society.
I took Ava during their stop here in NYC and she enjoyed it! If you can catch the tour, it’s definitely worth checking out!
Ava at the “Doc Mobile” tour stop in Times Square.
Here are the remaining tour dates:
Friday, September 6
Dallas/Fort-Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Museum of Science
Tuesday, September 10
New Orleans, Louisiana
Audubon Zoo
Saturday, September 14
Atlanta, Georgia
Centennial Olympic Park
Tuesday, September 17
Washington D.C.
The Yards Park
Thursday, September 26
Los Angeles, California
The Grove
Saturday, September 28
Phoenix, Arizona 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Arizona Coalition For Tomorrow Kids Health Fair – Salvation Army Community Center
Do you have children or family members who watch “Doc McStuffins?”
For those of you who have been anticipating the broadcast premiere of BET’s “Being Mary Jane,” the wait is over.
Tonight, viewers will finally get the chance to watch the highly-buzzed about pilot starring Gabrielle Union.
Union will portray the central title character who juggles her professional and family life while searching for true love. Tonight’s original movie will serve as the pilot to the upcoming series set to debut in January 2014. Union will be joined by a supporting cast including: Omari Hardrick, Latarsha Rose, Margaret Avery, Tika Sumpter, Raven Goodwinn, Lisa Vidal and Aaron D. Spears.
The series is produced by Mara Brock Akil who also created the hit tv shows “The Game” and “Girlfriends.”
Watch the trailer below:
“Being Mary Jane,” premieres tonight, Tuesday, July 2nd at 10:30pm ET.
Will you be tuning in tonight?
Last night it was all about the 2013 BET Awards in Los Angeles.
While the red carpet styles were white hot, the performances as a whole were a bit ho-hum (except the Charlie Wilson tribute) at this year’s annual awards show.
Many of the celebs who hit the red carpet were given the memo that white was the color of the night!
From Janelle Monae to host Chris Tucker, check out some of the stars who got in on the ivory trend:
Photos: BET
Who do you think rocked white the best?
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