This edition of GRIFF's prayer is for everyone who caught an L this weekend.

The girl scout troop that raised over $65,000 in cookie sales at the Oscars are still waiting for the money. The Academy and Girl Scouts of America are reportedly in the dark.

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 […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled new plans to increase diversity among the Academy's membership.

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It’s undeniable that emotions run high during major sporting events; but when fans go beyond rooting for a particular team and start involving race then…

Before the Oscar’s even took place this year, controversy was think in the air.  All of the major awards had been allocated to only white…

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Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…

A Facebook post supporting Black films and artists, and calling out the racism embedded into the Academy Award nomination process, was removed by the social…

  via:eurweb   The numbers are in…and it’s good news for the Oprah Winfrey Network. Tuesday’s premiere of Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and The Have Nots” drew 1.77 million viewers, making it the highest rated series debut in OWN history, according to the network.   Read More  

via:blackchristiannews It’s been nearly two years since Oprah finished up her uber-popular daytime talk show–4,561 complete in shows in fact, according to People. But there’s one thing she simply misses the most–the audience. The OWN creator sat down with Steve Harvey on his network talk show, also based in Chicago, and explained her feelings “I […]