A diverse group of winners took away the big prize at last nights Oscar Awards.  “Green Book” won best picture, Rami Malek won best actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Olivia Colman won best actress for “The Favourite”… and Spike Lee won best Adapted sceenplay for BlackKklansman. Here’s a list of the winners: Best Picture: […]

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

No black actors or actresses were nominated for this year’s Oscar awards, while there were plenty of roles that could have and should have received recognition. With this being the case some of Hollywoods minority talent like Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee are speaking and boycotting the Academy Awards.     This is what […]

For the last several days, Mo’Nique and Lee Daniels have been revisiting a conversation they had privately years ago in public spaces. This rehash of…

  Winners include: 1. Best Picture: “Argo.” 2. Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln.” 3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook.” 4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained.” 5. Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables.” 6. Directing: Ang Lee, “Life of Pi.” 7. Foreign Language Film: “Amour.” 8. Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, “Argo.” 9. Original Screenplay: Quentin […]

No African American nominees? If you’re black and want to make it [in] Hollywood this year, you better be a swan,” is what Bill Maher tweeted. Yes, there was a severe lack of melanin among the Academy Award nominees this year. But presenters Jennifer Hudson and Oprah Winfrey definitely represented, as well as Lena Horne […]