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FilmOn TV is about to expand its programming and audience with hip-hop mogul and icon Damon Dash. The online streaming network will launch Dame Dash TV to offer its viewers the very best in business, music, and style. Dame Dash TV will offer a number of hot programs, such as “Intelligent Boss Moves” with starring Dash and Dr. Boyce Watkins, “Hip Hop Motivation,” a new talk show that will feature guests like rapper Cam’ron and boxer Andre Berto, “The Secret to Ballin’,” a guide to getting rich and successful with insight from executives and artists like Snoop Dogg, Faith Evans, and Chris Brown. “What you’re watching now is the DNA [ Read More ]

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Earlier this week Mountain Dew faced a hailstorm of criticism stemming from their new commercial, developed by rapper Tyler, The Creator, which many deemed as offensive and racist.

The 60 second ad, which depicted a battered white woman on crutches being urged to identify a suspect out of a lineup of black men, was ultimately pulled by the soft drink's parent company, PepsiCo.

Yesterday the Odd Future frontman shared his thoughts on the backlash during an interview with Billboard and blames a blog post written by Syracuse University professor, Dr. Boyce Watkins for sparking the controversy.

“I guess people are claiming that it's racist, which... you know, that wasn't even portrayed in that commercial, there's no type of hate being portrayed in that work of art at all -- which I'm confused by,” he said. “But this older black dude, Dr. Boyce Watkins, I guess he found it racist because I was portraying stereotypes,...

On Wednesday, PepsiCo pulled and apologized for a Tyler, the Creator–developed Mountain Dew ad that was deemed racist — most notably by Dr. Boyce Watkins, a Syracuse University professor. Tyler has finally commented in a long conversation with Billboard, and he stands by the commercial: "There's no type of hate being portrayed in that work of art at all." And "The stereotypes are what I'm confused on, no one was even thinking about that … I wasn't thinking, 'Oh, let's use all black [people]; or whatever." Watkins had since softened his stance, saying that he studied Tyler's music and has an "altered perspective," but he's still not okay with the ad: "If you have a voice that reaches millions, u have an obligation to use that voice responsibly. Accidental racism is not a valid excuse." Anyway, the full Tyler interview is here.

In a very recent interview that covered a wide-range of topics, Minister Louis Farrakhan looked back on 2012, and looked ahead to 2013. Topics covered include, as you can guess (given this blog's focus), black cinema - specifically, he talked much more in depth about Django Unchained (a more comprehensive response to the film than he gave Dr Boyce Watkins a week or so ago, when he challenged Spike Lee's dismissal of the film); he also talked at lenght about Tyler Perry, and Madea. And it may come as a surprise to some of you that he gives serious, mega props to Tyler, calling him brilliant, and a giant, and praises his portrayal of Madea as a vision/representation of...

Denzel Washington, who won a best actor Oscar in 2002 for playing a bad cop in Training Day, is getting awards buzz this year for playing an alcoholic airline pilot in Flight. But that has angered some observers, who note that Washington didn't win the gold when he was nominated for playing the title role in Malcolm X. Dr. Boyce Watkins has called for a boycott of the Oscars, arguing that the Academy rewards black actors only when they portray troubled characters. "The bottom line is simple," he has written, "If a black person does a good impression of

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