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After a week of wondering whether Jada Pinkett Smith or Will Smith would respond to Chris Rock's jabs during his Oscars monologue, Jada has finally broken her silence.

The cast of “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” discusses the highs and lows of this year’s Oscars, and most importantly, the best parts of Chris Rock‘s highly anticipated opening speech.  Click on the audio player to hear some of it in this exclusive clip! Sign Up For Our Newsletter! RELATED: Trevor Noah On Oscars: “Chris Rock Will Be The Winner […]

Oprah Winfrey was just as disappointed as everyone else who noticed she was mistaken for Whoopi Goldberg at the 88th Academy Awards. Blog Total Beauty made the cringe-worthy flub during red carpet arrivals Sunday evening. The site, which rarely focuses on products for people of color, posted a photo of Goldberg to their Twitter account with […]

Relive the moments from the 88th annual Academy Awards that everyone will be talking about tomorrow.

Trevor Noah, comedian and host of “The Daily Show,” chats with The Rickey Smiley Morning Show about the global black experience, how he’s making “The Daily Show” his own, his thoughts on that new Kanye West, and more!  Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Plus, hear what says is his personal measure of success, and why he thinks it’s the perfect year […]

With the Oscars just days away, Steve Harvey has some advice for his friend and fellow comedian, Chris Rock, who is hosting the show. Be bigger and blacker! On Thursday’s episode of The Steve Harvey Show , Steve said, “he has got to host this show,” he said. “It’s absolutely wrong for (people) to ask him not to.” […]

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While some demanded that Chris Rock step down from hosting the Oscars amidst criticism that they were far too white-washed this year, we were sure he’d want to keep that check. But according to Headkrack, his reps say he’s not really sure if he’s going to make it! Watch the video above for more in this edition of the Hip-Hop Spot! […]

Chris Rock is not giving up his gig hosting the Oscars. Instead, he’s going to flip up the entire show to highlight #OscarsSoWhite. A number of Black artists are choosing to skip the 2016 Oscars in protest of the Academy Awards lack of diversity among the field nominees. There are so few people of color […]