The Los Angeles Rams partnered up with Watts rapper Stix to create videos to promote the fight against social injustices. Rams vice president of community affairs and engagement Molly Higgins want the videos to display the tough reality that Black Americans face. ... read more »

Participants can access the Taste of Soul event via livestream at www.tasteofsoul.org. ... read more »

Aaron Cobham who is knocking it out of the park in the Starz series ... read more »

There is something regal about “Selma” star David Oyelowo (oh-YEL-ə-woh). You experience that sense of sturdiness in his film roles or interviewing him in person or virtually which was the case, last week, as part of TIFF’s master series.  ... read more »

Platt is the chair and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the leading global music publisher. ... read more »

Participants can access the Taste of Soul event live at www.lasentinel.net and on our Instagram @tasteofsoulla and Facebook.com/tasteofsoulla accounts. ... read more »

It’s clear that they are doing nothing less than God’s good work. ... read more »

Though she directed “Bruised,” Berry and her film's producers didn't see her in the director's chair. ... read more »

SAG-AFTRA today released the following statement regarding the arrest of KPCC journalist Josie Huang on Saturday:   This past Saturday, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies tackled, held down, handcuffed and arrested SAG-AFTRA member Josie Huang, a public media journalist with radio station KPCC. Huang was visibly credentialed as a working journalist and verbally identified herself as a member of the press. She had done nothing to warrant questioning much less arrest. ... read more »

Enslaved is a six-episode docuseries that explores 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World by following the efforts of Diving with a Purpose, as they search for and locate six slave ships that went down with their human cargo. Executive produced and featuring award-winning actor Samuel L. Jackson, the series tracks the efforts of divers as they utilize new methods of underwater archaeology to identify and locate these sunken slave ships for the first time in history. These modern day adventures serve as a springboard to tell the stories of the ideology, economics and politics of slavery, while also celebrating stories of resistance, the cultures left behind and the culture that we live in.  ... read more »

Lupita Nyong’o has written a stirring tribute to her late “Black Panther” co-star Chadwick Boseman, calling him a man whose power will “reverberate for generations.” “I write these words from a place of hopelessness, to honor a man who had great hope,” the actress writes in the message posted to her social media accounts Tuesday, 11 days after Boseman’s death from colon cancer at age 43. “The news of his passing is a punch to my gut every morning.” ... read more »

 A Los Angeles judge once again today upheld a $107 million judgment against imprisoned former rap mogul Marion ``Suge'' Knight and Death Row Records, which was awarded back in 2005.     Over the objection of Lydia Harris, the woman who obtained the original judgment and later agreed with Knight that it should be voided, Superior Court Judge David Sotelo said he would not reconsider his December decision to reinstate the judgment or his March decision to affirm that ruling.  ... read more »

Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder, singer and producer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68. Bell died at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands Wednesday morning with his wife by his side, publicist Sujata Murthy said. The cause of death has not been released. ... read more »

Second run of popular syndicated program hosted by Emmy Award-winning talk show host, Tamron Hall to air Monday-Friday on OWN in multiple time periods beginning September 14 ... read more »

Season three of “The Chi” was up double-digits across platforms over last season and doubled its audience on streaming platforms. ... read more »