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Tia Mowry Says Leaving 'The Game' Was A Mutual Decision [Video]

Are you gonna miss Tia on the show?
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2012-13 TV Season Looks Bright for Black Thespians

Anthony Anderson will be heading NBC’s new show Guys With Kids, which is a half-hour sitcom executive produced by Late Night host Jimmy Fallon.
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‘First Look’ Trailer for Michel Gondry’s Coming of Age Film ‘The We and the I’

Shot in the Bronx, New York, the independent film follows unknown actors as a group of rowdy high school students on a bus on the last day of school as the bus gradually empties.
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Tisha Campbell-Martin Auctions Off Her Wedding Dress on Ebay (Video)

Tisha’s auctioning off the gown to raise scholarship funds for the New Life Leadership Academy which was funded by her good friends Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith in 2008.
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Spotlight

It’s an honest conversation about Love, Life, Fame, & Family. On Mother’s Day, May 13, Jada Pinkett-Smith will release “Red Table Talks,” an intimate conversation about family, love, and relationships with her daughter Willow Smith, and her mother, Andrienne Banefield Jones. The conversation is very candid and the three generations of women openly talk about [...]

How could we let this day go by without giving a birthday shoutout to Eddie Kang!?  Black thespian Michael Wright turns 56 today!  Happy B-Day to the Kang! New York native Michael Wright (born April 30, 1956) is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie King, Jr. in the [...]

Beloved BT readers: we thought you might be interested in reading about veteran movie producer Debra Martin Chase as she shares her career journey and explains the industry’s evolution. Check out the excerpt below, but be sure to read the full story and catch the video spotlight from our peeps over at BlackEnterprise.com. Go here [...]

Kevin Hart‘s Hartbeat Productions recently put out a candid video of Kev with his kids.  So now we know the real reason why Kevin works so hard. “This is the reason why I continue to work and grind so hard…. I work hard so my kids can play hard….We took over Disney.” –Kevin Hart. We [...]

Birthday shoutout time — Buggin Out from Do the Right Thing turns 54 today, but we bet he has a whole bunch of clean, brand new pairs of shoes now! Happy birthday (April 26) to thespian Giancarlo Esposito, the Danish-born American film and television actor and director best known for his roles in such films as The Usual Suspects and School [...]

It’s about that time for another birthday shout out y’all.  Wish we could do it everyday but today we honor black thespians Robert Hooks, and Fredro Starr, born on April 18. Mr. Hooks turns 75 and Fredro celebrates birthday number 42 today! Robert Hooks is an American actor of films, television and stage. With a career as a producer and political [...]

Nick Cannon – Punk’d is returning for a new season on Thursday, March 29, and Nick Cannon will join “Pretty Little Liars” star Lucy Hale, Mac Miller and “Glee’s” Heather Morris have joined previously announced guest hosts Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Kellan Lutz, Bam Margera, Hayden Panettiere, Dax Shepard and Tyler the Creator. Those who [...]

It’s Your Birthday! – MARCH 14

by blackthespian on March 14, 2012

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Occasionally we like to acknowledge the birthdays of our black thespians and there’s a few familiar faces born on March 14, so here we go: Elise Neal (The Hughley’s, All of Us, Hustle & Flow), 46 Tamara Tunie (As the World Turns, Law & Order: SVU), 53 Penny Johnson (Castle, 24), 51 (photo above) Gary [...]