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The “Sinners” actress said that BAFTA and the BBC are both to blame for not addressing activist John Davidson’s outbursts and for airing them on the broadcast.
“Sinners” actress Jayme Lawson was clear about who needed to take accountability for the N-word being shouted at her castmates while they were onstage at the BAFTAs one week ago.
At the NAACP Image Awards last night, Lawson put the onus on BAFTA and the BBC for a “lack of care” for Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, and for “exploiting” activist John Davidson’s Tourette Syndrome.
“I think the events this weekend exposed a couple of things,” Lawson told the Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet. “Institutionally, we still don’t understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that’s not inclusivity. That’s exploitation.”
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She praised Jordan and Lindo and the entire “Sinners” team for exercising “grace and dignity” regarding the incident. And addressing Davidson, she said the outbursts caused by his Tourette’s Syndrome were “exploited.”
“That man’s disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses,” Lawson said of Davidson. “That’s the BAFTA‘s fault. And then the BBC to air what they aired is careless — and not like some haphazard accident — a real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men.”
She added that the BBC chose not to air aspects of the BAFTA program, including when Akinola Davies Jr. said “Free Palestine” in his speech.
“You censored one Black man,” Lawson said. “You failed to protect two others, and our production designer, Hannah [Beachler]. You do not care for our dignity, our humanity. You want to celebrate our art, but you won’t protect [us].” She then said that events like the NAACP Image Awards feel like a safe space.
When Lindo took the stage at the NAACP Image Awards with director Ryan Coogler, the audience burst into applause. Lindo thanked the audience filled with his peers, and said it was “an honor” to be with “our people.”
“I’d just like to officially say, I appreciate, we appreciate all the support and love we have been shown in the aftermath of what happened last weekend. It means a lot to us,” Lindo said.
“One Battle After Another” actress Regina Hall also presented that night and shouted out Lindo and Jordan, sending them love from the stage. This prompted a standing ovation for the two actors.

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Harlesden High Street is showing works by Paul Flores at Post-Fair, held in an old post office. The fair’s space is “elegant, open and navigable”, says dealer Ace Ehrlich Courtesy Harlesden High Street
Only three days long and with a limited roster of 31 galleries—including PPOW, White Columns, Tomio Koyama Gallery and Untitled Love, an art bookstore—Post-Fair enjoyed strong opening days in its sophomore year. Notable guests included the artist Paul McCarthy, Mike D of the Beastie Boys, curatorial staff from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody and Maja Hoffmann and the writer and translator Ann Goldstein.
“We’re still the new kids on the block,” says the gallerist Chris Sharp, who organises the fair and works with a small team of three employees. “But it feels like we’re more on the map, more anticipated this year.” This year at Post-Fair, his gallery is showing small works by Edgar Ramirez, who won the Frieze Impact Prize in 2023.
On Friday afternoon (27 February), a gentle hum filled the space as visitors wandered from stand to stand. The gallerist Cole Solinger, founder of the San Francisco- and Los Angeles-based House of Seiko, noted that the flow of visitors increases in the afternoon as Frieze crowds move west from the Santa Monica airport.
The House of Seiko stand at Post-Fair features the trompe l’oeil sculptures and paintings of John Hodgkinson, which were inspired by a stay at a ranch for feral horses in Lompoc, California. Hodgkinson’s diminutive sculptures of fence slats encased in metal sit propped against the open windows.
“We chose this fair for its broad array of amazing positions and practices represented,” says Ace Ehrlich, who co-directs the Los Angeles-based gallery Ehrlich Steinberg with Tabitha Steinberg. The team sold around half of its presentation of moss-agate and sterling-silver sculptures by Joel Otterson, a local artist and former faculty member in the ceramics department at University of California, Los Angeles. “We’ve been very lucky to introduce his work to a new and younger audience,” Ehrlich says.
The fair features an open floor plan and minimal architectural intervention in its home inside an old post office, which participants say puts collectors and visitors at ease.
“I feel that Post-Fair is a little bit more curated. It’s a good lineup and good-quality galleries,” says Jonny Tanna, who co-directs the London-based gallery Harlesden High Street with Sophie Barrett-Pouleau. Their gallery’s stand features the work of Antonio Lechuga, a Dallas-based artist who works with Mexican textiles, and Paul Flores, who works with archival family photos and graphics pulled from Mexican culture in Los Angeles (where he is based).
“We have a great relationship with Chris Sharp. There’s a sense of camaraderie and friendship here,” Barrett-Pouleau says. The fair gives gallerists carte blanche, resulting in high-trust relationships that benefit both gallerists and organisers.
“I really applaud the organisers, Sharp and his team, for not subdividing every stand, stuffing the space with a million galleries, making it a circus,” Ehrlich says. “We chose this fair because when collectors find us here, they’re already in a great mood because they’re in a space that’s elegant, open and navigable.”
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During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump said he would lower health care prices, but the newly proposed plans would do the opposite.
President Donald Trump and the GOP have long railed against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without providing any meaningful solutions of their own. Last year, Republicans in Congress allowed pandemic-era ACA subsidies to expire, which greatly increased the price of health insurance for millions of Americans. The Department of Health and Human Services seems to have come up with a bold, new solution: cheaper plans that provide worse insurance. 
According to the New York Times, the plans would appear to be cheaper on paper by lowering monthly premiums. The catch is that it would put users of those plans on the hook for thousands of dollars in medical expenses before the plans kick in. The Trump administration has few options to lower ACA costs without congressional approval. 
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the ACA, has spoken favorably of the proposed plans. “The goal is simple: lower costs, more choice, and exchanges that work as intended,” he said.
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Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15,000 for an individual and $31,000 for a family; those are much higher than current Obamacare plans. The individual deductible would be eight times the average for someone with job-based insurance.
Many policy experts expressed doubt that the administration’s proposal would reduce the high cost of health care. “Nobody wants that product,” said Amitabh Chandra, a Harvard health economist who has studied high-deductible plans. “It’s going to be a really cheap product that nobody wants.”
The proposal involves a type of plan known as a catastrophic or skinny policies. While they may be appropriate for someone who is young and healthy, a sudden emergency room visit or unexpected hospital stay could cost thousands of dollars in unforeseen bills. People with chronic medical conditions also might have to pay for much — if not all — of their care out of their own pockets.
Dr. Joseph R. Betancourt, president of the Commonwealth Fund, which finances health care research, told the Times that the proposed plans may only exacerbate the issue of unaffordable health insurance. “There’s no doubt that we have an affordability crisis,” he said. “As we move forward to shifting more of the burden to patients, there’s a chance to really exacerbate the crisis.”
One of the key arguments made by the Trump administration is that offering plans that don’t come with a set network of doctors or hospitals allows consumers to find hospitals and doctors that align with their budgets. Yet that argument reveals that the Trump administration isn’t considering one key issue: time.
People have families to take care of, and it’s becoming increasingly common for them to work multiple jobs to keep up with the rising cost of living. It was already a headache trying to research the ACA plans I could afford without subsidies. Now you’re asking people to not only research the plans but also the doctors, hospitals, and prescriptions they can use with the plans, with no guarantee that the insurance will be accepted by any of the doctors in their area. 
As one of the millions who had to go from a silver to a bronze plan due to the expiring subsidies, I can tell you firsthand that they provide little more than the bare minimum. Offering plans that provide even less just sounds like an attempt to take people’s money and offer little in return. 
“We’re normalizing hardship, and we’re normalizing catastrophe,” Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy adviser for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, told the Times. She added that the new rule “is not trying to make something comparable to employer coverage,” she said.
The way both Trump and congressional Republicans have handled the ACA can only be described as disastrous. As a result of the ACA subsidies expiring, millions of Americans chose to go without insurance this year because they could not afford it. Instead of meaningfully addressing those costs, the Republican solution is to ask those people to pay for insurance that effectively gives them nothing. 
Somehow, this is worse than doing nothing at all. 
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Doves drive sales in droves: paintings by Conny Maier from Hauser & Wirth’s stand totally sold out by the end of VIP preview day on Thursday Carlin Stiehl
After the deadly wildfires in Altadena and the Palisades, Los Angeles was reeling at the time of last year’s Frieze Los Angeles. But according to Christine Messineo, Frieze’s fair director for the Americas, the collective tenderness and spirit of community that emerged from the devastation has only grown stronger.
“There’s still a throughline between the way people showed up and treated the fair as a gathering place,” Messineo tells The Art Newspaper. “It was the first moment after the fires where people felt they had permission to feel joy, to reflect and to be in community. That sensibility is still here now.”
Messineo says the fair’s greatest strength is its plurality: from artists to curators, advisers to collectors and gallerists to non-profit leaders, people of all stripes descend upon the Santa Monica Airport to rub elbows and talk shop. “You can’t walk through the aisles without it becoming a little bit of a social moment,” Messineo says.
“The fair gets better every year,” says Emilia Yin, the owner of Make Room gallery, whose stand features paintings by Erica Mahinay—all of which sold during Thursday’s VIP preview, for prices between $5,500 and $35,000. One work was acquired by the Santa Monica Art Bank. Yin says the energy of the city changes when Frieze Week rolls around and people are eager to get back to business, especially after challenging seasons. “LA is a city where community matters a lot,” Yin adds.
Erica Mahinay’s Heat (2026) is one of ten paintings by the artist that sold from Make Room’s stand on Thursday Carlin Stiehl
Essence Harden, the co-curator of the current Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum (until 1 March), curated Frieze’s Focus sector. The local gallery Sea View has devoted its stand in the sector to Zenobia Lee, a recent University of California, Los Angeles graduate, and sold out during the VIP preview (works were priced between $7,000 and $20,000). One of her sculptures went to the California African American Museum and another was acquired through the so-called MAC3 collaboration between the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
“What stands out to me about Los Angeles is that we have a multitudinous world coming together,” Messineo adds. That spirit of openness is reflected in the pace and types of sales at the fair this year, with works by established, emerging and long-overlooked artists selling to local collectors, museums and institutions—and at least one fair owner.
In the fair’s opening hours, Ari Emanuel, the chief executive of Mari Group, which acquired Frieze last year, walked into the Fort Gansevoort stand right at the fair’s main entrance and bought three figurative quilts by Yvonne Wells, an 87-year-old artist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The entertainment and live events mogul, perhaps unsurprisingly, was taken with Wells’s renderings of three icons of stage and screen, acquiring her quilts depicting Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley for prices between $50,000 and $60,000 each. This is the New York gallery’s first time exhibiting at Frieze Los Angeles and Wells’s first time showing anywhere in Los Angeles.
“At 87 years old, Wells is receiving the international recognition her work has long deserved,” says Adam Shopkorn, Fort Gansevoort’s owner and founder.
Yvonne Wells’s quilt Marilyn Monroe (2001), sold by Fort Gansevoort © Yvonne Wells. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort, New York
A Frieze Los Angeles regular, David Zwirner, reported the biggest sale thus far as the VIP preview came to a close, with a 2016 work by the Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby being acquired by a European foundation for $2.8m. The gallery also sold a 2020 painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for $1.5m, four new paintings by recent signee Louis Fratino for prices between $35,000 and $75,000, a new work on paper and a painting by Lisa Yuskavage for a total of $460,000, and more.
White Cube sold three sculptures from its solo stand devoted to Antony Gormley, for a total take of at least £1.5m. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery reported more than a half-dozen sales from its group presentation, totalling more than $2m. Local powerhouse David Kordansky Gallery (which also has an outpost in New York) reported several sales led by a Jonas Wood still life of a bonsai for $600,000, as well as Mary Weatherford’s Sunrise, Venus (2026) for $300,000; all in all, the gallery reported more than $2.4m in sales.
Pace Gallery reported around $1.8m in sales during the preview, led by a 1983 painting by Jean Dubuffet that went for $475,000, and Emily Kam Kngwarray’s painting Transition (1990) for $450,000. The gallery also sold one sculpture and two works on paper by Robert Longo for prices ranging from $90,000 to $175,000, a Hank Willis Thomas sculpture for $40,000 and a Kiki Smith work on paper for $30,000, among others.
Gladstone reported at least $1.39m in sales, including a $700,000 Keith Haring sculpture, a large-scale painting by Ugo Rondinone for $260,000 and paintings by Frances Stark and Karen Kilimnik for $75,000 and $65,000, respectively. The gallery also sold multiple editions of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs in the range of $200,000 each and multiple paintings by Rachel Rose for $35,000 each.
Gagosian reported a “brisk” sales day during the preview, placing Ed Ruscha’s Heaven (1988) and Hot Sparks (2025), Frank Gehry’s Fish on Fire (2023), Alex Israel’s Paramount Pictures (2025) and new works by Jonas Wood and Mary Weatherford—all for undisclosed prices.
Hauser & Wirth devoted its stand to a solo presentation of paintings by the Portugal-based German artist Conny Maier, which had sold out by the end of the VIP preview (but did not disclose prices).
Sprüth Magers’s stand features eye-catching wallpaper and a towering camel by the late Los Angeles legend John Baldessari Carlin Stiehl
Almine Rech sold a painting by Ewa Juszkiewicz for a price in the range of $800,000 to $850,000, among more than a half-dozen works. Thaddaeus Ropac sold a 2022 painting by Alex Katz for $700,000, a 2025 David Salle painting for $280,000 and a Liza Lou painting for $225,000, among others. Tina Kim Gallery sold more than $800,000 worth of art during the preview, including two paintings by Maia Ruth Lee. Garth Greenan Gallery sold a painting by Howardena Pindell for $875,000 and a painting by Emmi Whitehorse for $150,000. Perrotin sold a painting by Bharti Kher in the range of $180,000 to $195,000, among other works.
Early in the day, Bay Area gallery Jessica Silverman sold a new painting by Hayal Pozanti for $75,000 lain butterfly-wing sculpture by Rebecca Manson for $65,000, among others. From a solo nook devoted to Beverly Fishman, the gallery placed five colourful wall sculptures for $25,000 each.
Sprüth Magers sales included notable Los Angeles artists, among them Barbara Kruger’s work on paper Untitled (Your misery loves company) (1985) for $95,000 and a 16mm colour film by local legend Kenneth Anger for $50,000. Lehmann Maupin sold two new paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist Calida Rawles, both in the range of $60,000 to $80,000. Lisson Gallery sold two works by the Los Angeles-based sculptor Kelly Akashi for $60,000 and $55,000, among others.
The New York-based Jane Lombard Gallery, participating in Frieze Los Angeles for the first time, sold works by Adam de Boer and Massinissa Selmani for a combined total of more than $20,000. The Frieze Impact Prize stand, devoted to drawings and wooden sculptures by Napoles Marty, was entirely sold out by the end of the VIP preview—another sign of a successful start for the organisers.
“I love looking outside and seeing all these people gathered on the picnic benches and sitting on the lawn,” Messineo says. “And that, to me, feels like we did it right following the fires. People were ready for it, and it feels that way again this year. It’s certainly energetic.”
Just weeks after the fires, a strong opening at the fair indicates a positive mood among buyers
The fair’s seventh edition gathers the local community of dealers and artists, along with dozens of international galleries, while fostering a convivial atmosphere
California galleries did swift business in the fair’s opening hours, but dealers reported fewer seven-figure sales than last year

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Salt-N-Pepa, Colman Domingo and Viola Davis were also honored with awards during the ceremony, which was televised live on CBS and BET.
Black excellence was front and center at the 57th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday (Feb. 28). The show, airing from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, highlighted the best in Black entertainment, activism, and more. Throughout the week, honorees like the “Sinners” cast and crew took home various awards. On Tuesday (Feb. 24), the lauded film took home four awards, with Ryan Coogler winning outstanding writing and directing in a motion picture, and Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku winning for supporting actor and actress, respectively.
“Abbott Elementary” won three awards on the night. “Number One on the Call Sheet,” “Straw,” and “The Don Lemon Show” each won two.
The NAACP chose to honor winners in non-televised categories virtually on YouTube on Wednesday (Feb. 25) and Thursday (Feb. 26), leading up to Saturday night’s award show hosted by Deon Cole. Miles Caton took home the night’s first award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture for “Sinners,” Quinta Brunson won for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, and Viola Davis was honored with the NAACP Chairman’s Award.
See the full list of winners below (updated as it happens):
Entertainer of the Year
Cynthia Erivo
Doechii
Kendrick Lamar
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan
Teyana Taylor
Outstanding Album
WINNER: “Am I The Drama?” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records)
“Beloved” – GIVĒON (Epic Records)
“Let God Sort Em Out” – Clipse, Pusha T, Malice (Roc Nation Distribution)
“Mutt Deluxe: Heel” – Leon Thomas (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)
“SOS Deluxe: LANA” – SZA (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)           
Outstanding Song – Soul/R&B
“Folded” – Kehlani (Atlantic Records)         
“Burning Blue” – Mariah the Scientist (Epic Records)
WINNER: “It Depends” – Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment)
“Yes It Is” – Leon Thomas (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)
“Bed of Roses” – Teyana Taylor (Def Jam Recordings)                    
Outstanding Song – Hip-Hop/Rap
“Anxiety” – Doechii (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
“Chains & Whips” – Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Pusha T, Malice (Roc Nation Distribution)           
WINNER: “ErrTime” – Cardi B (Atlantic Records)
“Ride (Remix)” – Chance the Rapper feat. Do or Die & Twista (CTR LLC)
“Typa” – GloRilla (CMG/Interscope Records)                      
Outstanding Male Artist
Bryson Tiller – “Solace” & “The Vices” (RCA Records/TrapSoul)
Chris Brown – “It Depends” feat. Byrson Tiller (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment)
GIVĒON – “Beloved” (Epic Records)
WINNER: Kendrick Lamar – “luther” (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records)
Leon Thomas – “MUTT Deluxe: Heel” (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)
Outstanding Female Artist
Alex Isley – “Hands” (Warner Records)
WINNER: Cardi B – “Am I the Drama?” (Atlantic Records)
Doechii – “Anxiety” (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
SZA – “SOS Deluxe: LANA” (RCA Records/Top Dawg Entertainment)
Teyana Taylor – “Escape Room” (Def Jam Recordings)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional)
WINNER: 803Fresh feat. Fantasia – “Boots on the Ground Remix” (Snake Eyez Music Group/Artist Partner Group)           
Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams, Pusha T, Malice – “Chains & Whips” (Roc Nation Distribution)
Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande – “For Good” (Republic Records)
Mariah Carey, The Clark Sisters – “Jesus I Do” (gamma.)
Travis Greene & Andra Day – “Let Freedom Ring” (Greenelight Music/TRIBL Records)
Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary)
Cardi B, Kehlani – “Safe” (Atlantic Records)           
WINNER: Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller & Usher – “It Depends (Remix)” (RCA Records/Chris Brown Entertainment)
kwn feat. Kehlani – “Worst Behavior” (RCA Records)
FLO – “The Mood (Remixes)” (Uptown Records/Republic Records)
Leon Thomas & Chris Brown – “MUTT (Remix)” (EZMNY Records/Motown Records)
Outstanding New Artist       
Elmiene – “Useless Without You” (Def Jam Recordings)
Lee Vasi – “Love Me to Life” (Capitol CMG/Leeda Music Group)
Madison McFerrin – “Scorpio” (MadMcFerrin Music LLC)
WINNER: Monaleo – “Who Did the Body?” (Columbia Records)
Ravyn Lenae – “Bicycle Race” (Atlantic Records)
Outstanding Jazz Album
“For Dinah” – Ledisi (Candid Records)
WINNER: “We Insist! 2025” – Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell (Candid Records)      
“Beneath the Skin” – Nnenna Freelon (Origin Records)
“Live-Action” – Nate Smith – Nate Smith (Naive)
“Griot Songs” – Omar Thomas Large Ensemble (Omar Thomas Music)
Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album
“Jekalyn X The Legends” – Jekalyn Carr (Waynorth Music)
“Live at Maverick City” – Maverick City Music (Tribl Records, LLC)
“Only on the Road (Live)” – Tye Tribbett (Freligious Music)  
WINNER: “Tasha” – Tasha Cobbs Leonard (Motown Gospel)
“The Live Reunion: Washington D.C.” – JJ Hairson and Youthful Praise (James Town Music)
Outstanding International Song
“In Our Sight” – Skip Marley (Def Jam Recordings)
WINNER: “Is It” – Tyla (Epic Records)
“Love” – Burna Boy (Spaceship/Bad Habit/Atlantic Records)
“With You” – Davido feat. Omah Lay (RCA Records/Sony Music UK)
“You4Me” – Tiwa Savage (Everything Savage/EMPIRE)
Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album
“Anxiety” – Doechii (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
“Boots on the Ground” – 803Fresh (Snake Eyez Music Group/APG)
“Escape Room” – Teyana Taylor (Def Jam Recordings)
“Folded”– Kehlani (Atlantic Records)         
WINNER: “luther” – Kendrick Lamar & SZA (pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records           
Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album
Godfather of Harlem: Season 4 (Original Series Soundtrack) (Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment)
Highest 2 Lowest (Original Soundtrack) (A24)
WINNER: Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Masterworks, a label of Sony Music Entertainment)
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: Season 3 (Music from the Series) (Walt Disney Records)
Wicked: For Good (The Soundtrack) (Republic Records)    
Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song
“Church” – Tasha Cobbs Leonard feat John Legend (Motown Gospel)       
“Constant – Live” – Maverick City Music, Jordin Sparks, Chandler Moore, Anthony Gargiula (Tribl Records)
WINNER: “Do it Again” – Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul Recordings/Tribl Records)
“Don’t Faint” – Jekalyn Carr (Waynorth Music)
“Jesus I Do” – Mariah Carey feat. The Clark Sisters (gamma.)                                                        
Outstanding Original Score for Television/Film
Boots (Madison Gate Records)
Eyes of Wakanda Original Soundtrack (Hollywood Records)
Marvel’s Ironheart: Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack) (Hollywood Records)
One of Them Days (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Madison Gate Records, TriStar Productions)
WINNER: Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score) (Proximity Media LLC, under exclusive license to Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment)                                     
Outstanding Motion Picture
Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
One of Them Days (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Sarah’s Oil (Amazon MGM Studios)
WINNER: Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
André Holland – Love, Brooklyn (Greenwich Entertainment)
Denzel Washington – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Nnamdi Asomugha – The Knife (Relatively Media)
Tyriq Withers – HIM (Monkeypaw Productions)                                                                              
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
WINNER: Cynthia Erivo – “Wicked: For Good” (Universal Pictures)
Danielle Deadwyler – “40 Acres” (Magnolia Pictures)
Keke Palmer – “One of Them Days” (Sony Pictures Releasing)          
Kerry Washington – “Shadow Force” (Lionsgate)
Tessa Thompson – “Hedda” (Amazon MGM Studios)                                                                         
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
A$AP Rocky – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Damson Idris – F1 (Apple Original Films)
WINNER: Delroy Lindo – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jeffrey Wright – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Miles Caton – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Janelle James – One of Them Days (Sony)
Jayme Lawson – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Regina Hall – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
WINNER: Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
40 Acres (Magnolia Pictures)
WINNER: Love, Brooklyn (Greenwich Entertainment)
Magazine Dreams (Briarcliff Entertainment)
Opus (A24)
Unexpected Christmas (3 Diamonds Entertainment)
Outstanding International Motion Picture
40 Acres (Magnolia Pictures)
My Father’s Shadow (MUBI)
WINNER: Souleymane’s Story (Kino Lorber)
The Fisherman (Luu Vision Media)
The Secret Agent (NEON)
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture
A$AP Rocky – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
WINNER: Miles Caton – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Tabitha Brown – Unexpected Christmas (3 Diamonds Films)
Tyriq Withers – HIM (Monkeypaw Productions)
Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo, Peter Dreimanis, Lola Kirke, Li Jun Li, Saul Williams, Yao – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, Katt Williams – One of Them Days (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Coleman Domingo, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh – Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)
Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke – A House of Dynamite (Netflix)
Outstanding Animated Motion Picture
Elio (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Sneaks (Briarcliff Entertainment)
The Bad Guys 2 (DreamWorks Animation)   
WINNER: Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – Motion Picture
Anthony Mackie – Sneaks (Briarcliff Entertainment)
Craig Robinson – The Bad Guys 2 (DreamWorks Animation)
Danielle Brooks – The Bad Guys 2 (DreamWorks Animation)
Lil Rel Howery – Dog Man (DreamWorks Animation)
WINNER: Quinta Brunson – Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Outstanding Short Form (Live Action)
ADO (Baylor University)
Before You Let Go (Find Your People Program)
Best Eyes (American Film Institute Conservatory)
Ella (Netflix)
Food for the Soul (P.A. Works)
Outstanding Short Form (Animated)
ASALI: Power of The Pollinators (Upenndo! Productions)
Black Man, Black Man (Chainwheel Productions)
Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II (Cutting Edge Animation)
Jazzy Bells (Deep C Digital)
Wednesdays with Gramps (DreamWorks Animation)
Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture)
WINNER: Cassandra Mann – Unexpected Christmas (3 Diamonds Entertainment LLC)
Contessa Gayles – Songs from the Hole (Netflix)
Nnamdi Asomugha – The Knife (Relativity Media)
R.T. Thorne – 40 Acres (Magnolia Pictures)
Rachael Abigail Holder – Love, Brooklyn (Greenwich Entertainment)
Outstanding Performance by a Youth in a Motion Picture
Amari Price – The Knife (Relativity Media)
Estella K. Kahiha – The Woman in the Yard (Athena Studios)
Jahleel Kamara – Shadow Force (Lionsgate)
WINNER: Naya Desir-Johnson – Sarah’s Oil (Amazon MGM Studios)
Peyton Jackson – The Woman in the Yard (Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Cinematography in a Motion Picture
WINNER: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Kira Kelly – HIM (Universal Pictures)
Martim Vian – Love, Brooklyn (Greenwich)
Sean Bobbitt – Hedda (Amazon MGM Studios)
Shabier Kirchner – Materialists (A24)
Outstanding Comedy Series
WINNER: Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Harlem (Prime Video)
Survival of the Thickest (Netflix)                                                                                           
The Residence (Netflix)                                                                                                         
The Upshaws (Netflix)                                                                                   
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Cedric The Entertainer – The Neighborhood (CBS)
David Alan Grier – St. Denis Medical (NBC)           
David Oyelowo – Government Cheese (Apple TV)
Mike Epps – The Upshaws (Netflix)
Vince Staples – The Vince Staples Show (Netflix)                                                                             
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear (FX/Hulu)
Maya Rudolph – Loot (Apple TV)
Michelle Buteau – Survival of the Thickest (Netflix)
WINNER: Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Uzo Aduba – The Residence (Netflix)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Colman Domingo – The Four Seasons (Netflix)
Giancarlo Esposito – The Residence (Netflix)
Josh Johnson – The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Wendell Pierce – Elsbeth (CBS)
WINNER: William Stanford Davis – Abbott Elementary (ABC)                                                           
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Edwina Finley – The Residence (Netflix)
Ego Nwodim – Saturday Night Live (NBC)
WINNER: Janelle James – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Jerrie Johnson – Harlem (Prime Video)
Wanda Sykes – The Upshaws (Netflix)
Outstanding Drama Series
Bel-Air (Peacock)
Beyond the Gates (CBS)
Forever (Netflix)
Paradise (Hulu)
Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)                                                                                                      
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Forest Whitaker – Godfather of Harlem (MGM+)    
Jabari Banks – Bel-Air (Peacock)
Michael Cooper Jr. – Forever (Netflix)
Morris Chestnut – Watson (CBS)
WINNER: Sterling K. Brown – Paradise (ABC)
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
WINNER: Angela Bassett – 9-1-1 (ABC)
Emayatzy Corinealdi – Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)
Lovie Simone – Forever (Netflix)
Patina Miller – Power Book III: Raising Kanan (STARZ)   
Queen Latifah – The Equalizer (CBS)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Adrian Holmes – Bel-Air (Peacock)
Ato Essandoh – The Diplomat (Netflix)
WINNER: Caleb McLaughlin – Stranger Things (Netflix)
Jacob Latimore – The Chi (Showtime)
Wood Harris – Forever (Netflix)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
WINNER: Aisha Hinds – 9-1-1 (ABC)
Audra McDonald – The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Karen Pittman – Forever (Netflix)
Karen Pittman – The Morning Show (Apple TV)
Nicole Beharie – The Morning Show (Apple TV)
Outstanding Limited Television (Series, Special, or Movie)
G20 (Prime Video)
Ironheart (Disney+)
Ruth & Boaz (Netflix)
WINNER: Straw (Netflix)
Washington Black (Hulu)
Outstanding Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special, or Movie)
Brian Tyree Henry – Dope Thief (Apple TV)
Giancarlo Esposito – Please Don’t Feed the Children (Tubi)
Idris Elba – Heads of State (Prime Video)
Taye Diggs – Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers & Ours (Lifetime)
WINNER: Tyler Lepley – Ruth & Boaz (Netflix)
Outstanding Actress in a Limited Television (Series, Special, or Movie)
Brandy Norwood – Christmas Everyday (Lifetime)
Dominique Thorne – Ironheart (Disney+)
Serayah – Ruth & Boaz (Netflix)
WINNER: Taraji P. Henson – Straw (Netflix)     
Viola Davis – G20 (Prime Video)
Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special)
CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip (CNN)
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS)
Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years After the Storm With Robin Roberts (ABC)
Michelle Obama: The Style, The Power, The Look:  A Conversation with Robin Roberts (ABC)
WINNER: The Don Lemon Show (YouTube)
Outstanding Talk Series
House Guest (YouTube TV)
Sherri (Syndicated)
Tamron Hall Show (ABC)
WINNER: The Jennifer Hudson Show (Syndicated)
The View (ABC)
Outstanding Reality Program/Reality Competition Services/Game Show
WINNER: Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Full Court Press (ESPN, ESPN+)
Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
Ready to Love (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)                                                                  
Outstanding Variety (Series or Special)
Tiny Desk Concerts Celebrates Black Music Month 2025 (NPR)
HBCU Honors (BET Networks)
BET Awards 2025 (BET Networks)
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (NBC)
WINNER: Ali Siddiq: My Two Sons (YouTube/Moment PPV)                                                              
Outstanding Children’s Program
Eyes of Wakanda (Disney+)   
WINNER: Gracie’s Corner (YouTube TV)
Iyanu (Cartoon Network)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+)
Reading Rainbow (KidZuko)                                                                         
Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited–Series)
Amanda Christine – IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO Max)
Blake Cameron James – IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO Max)
Jeremiah Felder – The Residence (Netflix)
WINNER: Leah Sava Jeffries – Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+)  
Percy Daggs IV – Paradise (Hulu)
Outstanding Host in a Talk or News/Information (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble
Abby Phillip  – CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip (CNN)
WINNER: Don Lemon – The Don Lemon Show (YouTube)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates. Jr. (PBS)
Scott Evans – House Guest (YouTube TV)
Sherri Shepherd –  Sherri (Syndicated)                                                                                 
Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble
Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough – Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, Daniel Lubetzky, Kevin O’Leary – Shark Tank (ABC)
Bozoma St. John and Jimmy Fallon – On Brand with Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
Kevin Hart – BET Awards 2025 (BET Networks)
WINNER: Steve Harvey – Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)
Outstanding Guest Performance
Brandee Evans – Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)
Dave Chappelle – Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Janet Hubert – Bel-Air (Peacock)
WINNER: Malcolm-Jamal Warner – Murder in a Small Town (FOX)
Morris Chestnut – Reasonable Doubt (Hulu)
Outstanding Animated Series
Disney Jr.’s Ariel (Disney Jr.)
WINNER: Gracie’s Corner (YouTube TV)
Iyanu (Cartoon Network)
Lil Kev (BET+)
Weather Hunters (PBS KIDS)
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television)
Anika Noni Rose – The Mighty Nein (Prime Video)
Ayo Edebiri – Big Mouth (Netflix)
Cedric the Entertainer – The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (Disney+)          
Graceyn Hollingsworth – Gracie’s Corner (YouTube TV)
WINNER: Kyla Pratt – The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (Disney+)
Outstanding Short Form Series or Special – Reality/Nonfiction/Documentary
College Gameday: Michael Vick (ESPN)
Glam Through the Ages (KeyTV Network)
Noochie’s Live From the Front Porch (YouTube TV)
The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show starring Kendrick Lamar (FOX)
The Daily Show: After The Cut (Comedy Central)   
Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television)
WINNER: Chinaka Hodge – Ironheart (Disney+)
Daniel Lawrence Taylor – Boarders (Tubi)
Haolu Wang – Black Mirror (Netflix)
Jas Summers – Stay (Hulu)
Tearrance Averelle Chisolm – Demascus (Tubi)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special, Movie)
WINNER: Glynn Turman – Straw (Netflix)
Jay Ellis – All Her Fault (Peacock)
Rockmond Dunbar – Straw (Netflix)
Sterling K. Brown – Washington Black (Hulu)
Ving Rhames – Dope Thief (Apple TV)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Television (Series, Special, or Movie)
Angela Bassett – Zero Day (Netflix)
Lyric Ross – Ironheart (Disney+)      
Marsai Martin – G20 (Prime Video)
Sherri Shepherd – Straw (Netflix)
WINNER: Teyana Taylor – Straw (Netflix)
Outstanding Documentary (Film)
Being Eddie (Netflix)
Fatherless No More (First Gen Films)
Left Behind (Corso Films)
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)
Who in the Hell is Regina Jones? (Weigel Productions)
Outstanding Documentary (Television)
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story (Apple TV)
Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015 (HBO Max)
Great Migrations: A People on the Move (PBS)
High Horse: The Black Cowboy (Peacock)
WINNER: Number One on the Call Sheet (Apple TV)
Outstanding Short Form Documentary (Film)
Black Longevity (Apt. 5f)
CIRILO, A Legacy Untold (JOCMedia & Entertainment)
Freeman Vines (Switchboard)
Masaka Kids, a Rhythm Within (Netflix)
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Health (Ya Momz House)
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
WINNER: Aisha Muharrar – Hacks – “Clickable Face” (HBO Max)
Frida Perez – The Studio – “The War” (Apple TV)
Lizzy Darrell – Abbott Elementary – “100th Day of School” (ABC)
Monique D. Hall – Sesame Street – “Tamir’s Art Show” (MAX)
Naomi Ekperigin – St. Denis Medical – “Buffalo Bruce and the Matty Kid” (NBC)
Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
Ajani Jackson – Law & Order – “Episode 10” (NBC)
Bryce Ahart, Stephanie McFarlane – FBI – “Episode 12” (CBS)
C.A. Johnson – The Beast in Me – “Thanatos” (Netflix)
WINNER: Cynthia Adarkwa – The Pitt -“12:00 P.M.” (HBO Max)
Walter Mosley – The Lowdown – “Tulsa Turnaround” (FX/Hulu)    
Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie, Documentary or Special
WINNER: Aireka Muse – Friends & Lovers (Lifetime Movie Network)          
Jas Summers – Stay (Hulu)
Jerrod Carmichael – Jerrod Carmichael: Don’t Be Gay (HBO Max)
Michael Elliot, Cory Tynan – Ruth & Boaz (Netflix)
Roye Okupe and Brandon Easton – Iyanu: The Age of Wonders (Cartoon Network)
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet (Focus Features)
Nora Garrett – After the Hunt (Amazon MGM Studios)
WINNER: Ryan Coogler – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Syreeta Singleton – One of Them Days (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Walter Mosley, Nadia Latif – The Man in My Basement (Andscape)
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
Amy Aniobi – Survival of the Thickest – “It’s Not a Mo’Ment, It’s a Movement, Bitch!” (Netflix)
Colman Domingo – The Four Seasons – “Ultimate Frisbee” (Netflix)
Paul Hunter – Government Cheese – “Father Facts, Figures, and Failures” (Apple TV)
Theodore Witcher – Demascus – “The Thanksgiving Episode” (Tubi)
WINNER: Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary – “The Science Fair” (ABC)
Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Angela Barnes – Ironheart – “The Past Is the Past” (Disney+)
Anton Cropper – Reasonable Doubt – “Feelin’ It” (Hulu)
Jet Wilkinson – The Copenhagen Test – “Copenhagen” (Peacock)
WINNER: Mario Van Peebles – Power Book III: Raising Kanan – “Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself” (STARZ)
Salli Richardson-Whitfield – The Gilded Age – “My Mind Is Made Up” (HBO Max)
Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie, Documentary or Special
Alanna Brown – Ruth & Boaz (Netflix)
Nicole G. Leier – Trapped in the Spotlight (Lifetime)
WINNER: Olatunde Osunsanmi – Star Trek: Section 31 (Paramount+)
Tailiah Breon – Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story (A&E)
Troy A. Scott – I’ll Never Let You Go (Lifetime)
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture
Elijah Bynum – Magazine Dreams (Briarcliff Entertainment)          
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein (Netflix)
Lawrence Lamont – One of Them Days (Sony Pictures Releasing)  
R.T. Thorne – 40 Acres (Magnolia Pictures)
WINNER: Ryan Coogler – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Directing in a Documentary (Television or Film)
Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson – Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (Hulu)
Andre Gaines – Boo-Yah – A Portrait of Stuart Scott (ESPN)
Contessa Gayles – Songs from the Hole (Netflix)
WINNER: Reginald Hudlin, Shola Lynch – Number One on the Call Sheet (Apple TV)
Yemi Oyediran – King of Them All: The Story of King Records (PBS)
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
Can’t Get Enough – Kennedy Ryan (Forever/Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group)    
Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic – Harmonia Rosales (W. W. Norton & Company)
WINNER: Death of the Author – Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow)
Happy Land – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Berkley, Penguin Random House)
Harlem Rhapsody – Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley, Penguin Random House)                   
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
WINNER: A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm & Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics – Juanita Tolliver (Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group)
Born in Flames – Bench Ansfield (W. W. Norton & Company)
From These Roots – Tamara Lanier (Penguin Random House, Crown)       
Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era – Calvin Stovall Jr. (Brown Books Publishing Group)
I Am Nobody’s Slave – Lee Hawkins (HarperCollins Publishers)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
Anela Malik – American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States (National Geographic Partners, LLC)
WINNER: Charles B. Fancher – Red Clay (Blackstone Publishing)
Dr. Judith Joseph – High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy (Little, Brown Spark)
Lorna Lewis – A Sky Full of Love (Lake Union)
Zoe B. Wallbrook – History Lessons (Soho Crime)  
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/ Autobiography
107 Days – Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
WINNER: The Look – Michelle Obama (Crown)
Toni at Random – Dana A. Williams (Amistad, HarperCollins)
Truly – Lionel Richie (HarperOne)
Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three – Dawn Staley (Black Privilege Publishing (Atria Books, Simon & Schuster)
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States – Anela Malik (National Geographic Partners, LLC)
Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine – Dr. Jessica Harris (Penguin Random House/Clarkson Potter)
We the Pizza: Slangin’ Pies and Savin’ Lives – Muhammad Abdul-Hadi (Penguin Random House/Clarkson Potter)
WINNER: Who Better Than You? – Will Packer (Penguin Random House)
Wine Pairing for the People – Cha McCoy (Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow, HarperCollins)                                                                                                                                        
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
Death of the First Idea – Rickey Laurentiis (Alfred A. Knopf)
Florida Water – Aja Monet (Haymarket Books)
The Grace of Black Mothers – Martheaus Perkins (Trio House Press)
WINNER: The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems – Patricia Smith (Scribner)
We Look Better Alive – Ali Black (Burnside Review Press)  
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
Black Boy, Rise – Brynne Barnes (Chronicle Books)
Black Diamond Kings: Heroes of Negro League Baseball – Charles R. Smith Jr. (Candlewick Press)
My Quiet Place – Monica Mikai (Chronicle Books   )
The History of We – Nikkolas Smith (Penguin Young Readers)
WINNER: Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark – Allen R. Wells; Illustrated by DeAndra Hodge (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan)
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
(S)Kin – Ibi Zoboi (HarperCollins/Versify)
WINNER: Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi – Angie Thomas (HarperCollins/Clarion Books)
The Scammer – Tiffany D. Jackson (HarperCollins – Quill Tree Books)
The Story of My Anger – Jasminne Mendez (Penguin Young Readers)
Through Our Teeth – Pamela N. Harris (HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Graphic Novel
Creaky Acres: A Graphic Novel – Calista Bril (Penguin Young Readers)
Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls – Rob Edwards (Stranger Comics)
One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel – Rita William-Garcia (HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books)
WINNER: Parable of the Talents a Graphic Novel Adaptation – Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damien Duffy, Illustrated by John Jennings and David Brame (Abrams ComicArts)
They Choose Violence – Sheldon Allen (AWA Studios)                                                        
Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism 
“As Black New Yorkers Move Out, N.Y.C. Politics May Be Reshaped” – Maya King (Newspaper)
“Audra McDonald Took the Stage and Rewrote the Rules” – Adam Davenport (Online)
“Black joy and boots: How line dancing is fanning cultural connection” – Lisa Respers France (News Service)
“HBCUs Reel as Trump Cuts Black-Focused Grants: ‘This Is Our Existence’” – Jasper Smith (Online)
WINNER: “On Borrowed Time” – Anissa Durham (Online)
Outstanding Podcast – News and Information
Accidentally Informed (ComebackTV Presents)
Native Land Pod (iHeartMedia/Reasoned Choice Media)
The Assignment with Audie Cornish (CNN)
WINNER: The Don Lemon Show (Lemon Media Network)
The Joy Reid Show (Image Lab Media Group LLC)
Outstanding Podcast – Lifestyle/Self-Help
Ageless, Fearless, & Unscripted (Williamson Media Group)
Hot & Bothered with Melyssa Ford (Forged Path Productions)
WINNER: IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (Higher Ground)
Just Heal with Dr. Jay (Cue & Coda Films)
Money And Wealth With John Hope Bryant (Black Effect-iHeartPodcasts)
Outstanding Podcast – Society and Culture
Baby, This Is Keke Palmer (Wondery)
Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay (The Ringer)
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (Higher Ground)
WINNER: The Don Lemon Show (Lemon Media Network)
What Now? with Trevor Noah (Day Zero Productions)
Outstanding Podcast – Arts, Sports and Entertainment
WINNER: IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (Higher Ground)
Legacy Talk with Lena Waithe (Hillman Grad & Lemonada Media)
ReLiving Single with Erika Alexander & Kim Coles (Hartbeat)
Shawn Stockman’s On That Note (CTG Media)
SPOLITICS with Jemele Hill (Unbothered Inc)       
Outstanding Podcast – Scripted/Limited Series/Short Form
Exonerated: The Cost of Wrongful Conviction (WURD Radio)
WINNER: Interesting Things with JC (Jim Connors LLC)        
Kingsland (SBH Productions and Audible)
Squeezed with Yvette Nicole Brown (Lemonada Media)
The Prophecy Season 2 (Audible, Simpson Street and Q Code Media)
Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Art/Comedy
Darren Watkins Jr. – @IShowSpeed
Jordan Howlett – @jordan_the_stallion8
Joshua Neal – @joshuadneal
Lou Young – @Louuuyoung
WINNER: Tee Sanders – @teesanderscomedy                                                                                       
Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Political/Culture
Elizabeth Booker Houston – @bookersquared
Garrison Hayes – @garrisonh
George Lee Jr. – @theconsciouslee
Joshua Doss – @doss.discourse
WINNER: Lynae Vanee – @lynaevance
Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Fashion/Beauty
Allyiah Gainer – @allyiahsface         
De’arra Taylor – @dearra
Eni Popoola – @enigivensunday
Jackie Asamoah – @jackieaina
Wisdom Kaye – @wisdm
Outstanding Digital Content Creator – Gaming/Tech
WINNER: Berlin Edmonds – @Berleezy
Cory Kenshin  – @CoryxKenshin
Gerard Williams – @Hiphopgamer
Jay Ann Lopez – @blackgirlgamers
Khleo Thomas – @khleothomas 
Outstanding Digital Content Creator — Fitness/Wellness/Food                                                      
Alex Hill – @justaddhotsauce
Jeanette Jenkins – @msjeanettejenkins
WINNER: Keith Lee – @Keith_Lee125
Kimberly Villalobos – @KimmysKreations.1           
Massy Arias – @Massy.arias             
Outstanding Costume Design (TV or Film)
Bel-Air – Queensylvia Akuchie (Peacock)
Highest 2 Lowest – Francine Jamison-Tanchuck (A24)
Love, Brooklyn – Missy Mickens (Greenwich Entertainment)                                  
Sinners – Ruth E. Carter (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell (Universal Pictures)                                                      
Outstanding Make-up (TV or Film)
All’s Fair – Kate Biscoe (Hulu)
Bel-Air – Alyssa Hudson (Peacock)
Chief of War – Christian Tinsley (Apple TV)
Highest 2 Lowest – Ngozi Olandu Young (A24)
Sinners – Ken Diaz (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Hair Styling (TV or Film)
All’s Fair – Valerie Jackson (Hulu)
Bel-Air – Terry Hunt (Peacock)
Beyond the Gates – Wankala L. Hinkson (CBS)
Reasonable Doubt – Deaundra Metzger (Hulu)
Sinners – Shunika Terry (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Editing in a Motion Picture or Television Series, Movie, or Special
WINNER: Deanna Nowell, ACE – Ironheart (Disney+)
Maysie Hoy, ACE – Ruth & Boaz (Netflix)
Michael P. Shawver – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Ralph Jean-Pierre – The Beast in Me (Netflix)
Shaheed Qaasim – Poker Face (Peacock)
Outstanding Stunt Ensemble (TV or Film)
Butterfly – Yeonheon Jung (Prime Video)
F1 – Gary Powell (Apple TV)
G20 – Grant Powell (Prime Video)
Shadow Force – Dartenea Bryant (Starz)
WINNER: Sinners – Andy Gill (Warner Bros. Pictures)                         
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“This is a dangerous and unnecessary gamble with American lives that also jeopardizes stability,” said former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Saturday’s joint strikes executed by the United States and Israel, President Donald Trump confirmed.
“This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS,” Trump said in a statement on Truth Social.
The death of Khamenei marks a major turning point in the Middle East, where President Donald Trump announced earlier Saturday the U.S. military is undertaking a “massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests.”
The president said the U.S., in joint operations with Israel, will “destroy” Iran’s missiles and “ensure that terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces.”
However, Trump cautioned that the war launched against Iran could result in American casualties. “That often happens in war,” he said in a presidential address early Saturday.
The president’s military action, which did not seek authorization from Congress as required by the Constitution, was quickly slammed by Democrats in Congress, though praised by Republicans. The strikes also sparked protests in U.S. cities such as Washington, D.C., and New York City.
U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, called on Congress to pass a War Powers resolution to end Trump’s military campaign in the Middle East.
“Donald Trump promised to keep America out of costly and endless foreign wars. He is now doing the exact opposite,” Jeffries said in a statement.
Trump’s 2024 presidential opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, also called out the president’s war on Iran.
“Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice,” said Harris. “This is a dangerous and unnecessary gamble with American lives that also jeopardizes stability in the region and our standing in the world. What we are witnessing is not strength. It is recklessness dressed up as resolve.”
While the former vice president said she understands the threat Iran poses and that it should never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, “this is not the way to dismantle that threat.”
The latest strikes in Iran come after Trump ordered strikes on the Islamic nation’s nuclear facilities in June 2025. At that time, Trump said the U.S. “obliterated” Iran’s enrichment capabilities.
“That, too, was a lie,” said Harris.
The former presidential nominee argued that even if Trump had received authorization from Congress, the latest strikes in Iran are “unwise, unjustified, and not supported by the American people.”
“There can be no equivocation in our opposition to Donald Trump’s war of choice, and Congress must use all available power to prevent him from further committing us to this conflict. Our troops, our allies, and the American people deserve nothing less,” she said.
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During what would have been his graduation, Southern University will honor Caleb Wilson with a posthumous degree.
Southern University is committed to honoring the life of Caleb Wilson. This week, the Louisiana HBCU announced that Wilson will be awarded his bachelor’s degree posthumously following the tragic hazing incident that cost him his life. 
“This spring, when Caleb would have walked across the stage in the F.G. Clark Activity Center with the Class of 2026, the University will bestow upon him a posthumous degree,” the university shared in a statement. “We hope that this tribute reflects our enduring respect for his commitment, his accomplishments, and the legacy he leaves within the Southern University family.” 
This news comes on the one-year anniversary of Wilson’s passing. On Feb. 27, 2025, the 20-year-old engineering major died after participating in an unsanctioned off-campus hazing ritual while pledging Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Officials ultimately ruled his death a homicide, after an autopsy revealed that punches to the chest ultimately caused Wilson to go into shock and later die from commotio cordis, which, according to the Cleveland Clinic, creates an abnormal heart rhythm and cardiac arrest.
“The loss of Caleb has left an unimaginable void in our hearts,” the Wilson family shared at the time. “Caleb was a bright and talented young man with a promising future ahead of him. His passion for life, his dedication to his studies, and his love for music and the Southern University ‘Human Jukebox’ Marching Band were just a few of the many qualities that made him an extraordinary person.”
Since the incident, Southern University expelled the Beta Sigma Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and five individuals reportedly involved in the situation have been indicted by police. The late student’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the expelled Omega Psi Phi chapter and the national organization, along with the state of Louisiana, Southern University, and individuals believed to have been involved in his death. 
“Today, Southern University and A&M College pauses to remember Caleb Wilson, a beloved member of the Jaguar Nation whose presence we continue to miss deeply,” the university’s recent statement added. “Caleb’s vibrant personality, warm spirit, and steady determination left a lasting impression on classmates, professors, and friends.”
“On this one-year anniversary of his passing, we remember not only the loss of Caleb, but his life, which was filled with joy and meaningful connection. We continue to hold his family especially close in our thoughts. Caleb’s spirit will always live on and remain a cherished, impactful part of Southern University,” the HBCU concluded. 
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Florida A&M’s Marching 100, Southern’s Human Jukebox & Jackson State’s Sonic Boom of the South honor Michael Jackson’s legacy
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There are movie promo campaigns, and then there’s the already-iconic Michael promo campaign which brought together the baddest bands in the land to honor the King of Pop while commemorating Black History Month ahead of the buzzy biopic‘s release this Spring.
Renowned for their precision, showmanship, and dazzling musical prowess, FAMU‘s Marching 100, Southern University‘s Human Jukebox, and Jackson State University’s Sonic Boom of the South shined in cinematic videos featuring each band performing the timeless classic, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” with their signature sound.
Check out the must-see videos below:
In the viral videos trending across social media, the bands can be seen embodying Michael Jackson’s pop culture transcendence with slick nods, clever homages, and moonwalks as part of the Michael Celebrates: Legacy, Artistry, Culture series that honors the enduring relationship between the HBCU community and Michael’s timeless music.
Now, communities around the world are invited to join the celebration with their own performances of “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” by posting their own video on social media using the hashtags #MichaelLegacy and #MichaelMovie.
“For Michael’s fans everywhere, his legacy of performance and artistry is enduring.That legacy lives powerfully within HBCU communities, where music, movement, and excellence have long been expressions of culture, pride, and identity,” said Briana McElroy, Head of Digital Marketing for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.
“This initiative is deeply personal to me—I grew up listening to these bands, who represent Black excellence, community, and creativity. Partnering with these HBCUs is about honoring that legacy while creating space for the next generation to lead, perform, and inspire,” she continues.
In Michael, audiences will experience the beloved icon’s journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world,” per the official synopsis.
Check out the trailer below:
With mounting hype across the globe, Michael moonwalks into theaters April 24!

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Rina Mark’s collection reflects her relationship to her home city of Los Angeles
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The collector Rina Mark is as Angeleno as they come. She grew up in Los Angeles, attended Hamilton High School and California State University, Northridge, and was a docent for ten years at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Mark also has a longstanding relationship with Gemini G.E.L., which is celebrating 60 years of providing space for and championing local artists and printmakers. Over the past 40 years, Mark has bought numerous works of art from the legendary printmaking studio—by John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha and many others. (Gemini’s stand at Frieze Los Angeles this year presents significant works spanning the entirety of the gallery and studio’s existence, with pieces by Tacita Dean, Frank Gehry, Jasper Johns, Julie Mehretu and Analia Saban.)
A room in Rina Mark’s home, with her dog Pippa and some of her purchases
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The Art Newspaper: What are you looking forward to during Frieze Los Angeles this year?
Rina Mark: I have attended Frieze over the years in Los Angeles, as well as in New York. When you enter the venue—be it a tent, airport hangar or convention centre—there is the feeling of anticipation and excitement of what you will see that is new, thought-provoking and unexpected. It’s an experience for the senses. I’m looking forward to this year’s Frieze and new discoveries!
What was the first work of art you bought?
I’ve been collecting art for many years. The first “serious” piece I bought was at an art auction at the Century Plaza Hotel when I was in high school. I went with my dad and bought an Alexander Calder signed print for $200! It’s still hanging in my house. Little did I know what was to come.
What was the most recent work you bought?
Ed Ruscha’s Pico and Sepulveda (2001). Why? Well, during college I worked at the old Scotch & Sirloin restaurant, which was located on the corner of—you guessed it!—Pico and Sepulveda.
On display in Rina Mark’s dining room are Roy Lichtenstein’s Modern Room and Thinking Nude
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How quickly do you decide to buy a work of art?
I’m a quick-decision collector. I don’t go home and think it over. If I love something, I buy it. Not sure if that is bad or good, but I enjoy every piece that I live with.
How did you come to collect so many works from Gemini G.E.L.?
In 1987, I bought my first “major” piece by Ellsworth Kelly, Blue Curve (State I) (1988). I couldn’t afford it, but Gemini G.E.L. was kind enough to let me pay it off, which I eventually did. Since then, I’ve made numerous purchases from Gemini—including works by Kelly, Lichtenstein, Ruscha, Baldessari, Richard Serra and Jonathan Borofsky.
I want to give a very special congratulations to Gemini G.E.L. on its 60th anniversary! And a big thank you to its co-owners—Joni Moisant Weyl, Suzanne Felsen, Ayn Grinstein and Ellen Grinstein. With a special shout out to Joni for tracking down a Kelly print long unavailable, which now has a place of honour in my home.
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Yung Miami’s dating preferences are causing quite a stir on social media.
Yung Miami is letting the world know her next man has to be all about God and his coin.
The City Girls member is back, musically, and is out promoting her latest single, “News Flash,” and recently checked in with UPROXX’s Jeremy Hecht for the Sound Check web series.
Yung Miami, born Caresha Brownlee, already has 2 children and is back on the market after famously dating disgraced and currently incarcerated Bad Boy founder Sean “Diddy” Combs for 2 years, touched on what the next man who tries to shoot their shot has to have around the 3-minute mark of the interview.
She told the host that right now she is “just living” and “having fun” regarding her current dating, while adding that her next man will have to “have coin.”
“I need someone that’s, you know, God-fearing, that’s [religious], that believes in God,” Yung Miami told Hecht.
She also added that her next boo-thang will have to “make at least $100 million.”
When Hecht joked that her preferences would greatly reduce the number of possible suitors in her DMs, the rapper/media personality responded, “That’s good. Narrow ’em down, God. Thank ya.”
As expected, Yung Miami’s comments are causing quite a stir on social media. In response to her dating requirements, one person wrote, “No man with $100 million will date a hœ like her.”
The “Tea Time” crafter saw the shade and clapped back, writing, “Check the score.”
There’s nothing wrong with knowing what you want in a partner.
You can see more reactions below.
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From the streets of Crenshaw to a historic partnership with Snoop Dogg, Samiel “Black Sam” Asghedom tells theGrio how the family is scaling Nipsey Hussle’s blueprint into a national model for Black ownership.
By mid-morning Saturday (Feb. 28), cameras were already rolling. City leaders gathered. Supporters filled the sidewalks. Media trucks lined the corridor. The intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue — the same stretch Nipsey Hussle once walked as a student, sold mixtapes as a teenager, and later purchased as a businessman — now officially bears his name: Nipsey Hussle Square.
But the meaning of the moment extends far beyond a street sign.
“The true story isn’t written in metal,” Samiel “Blacc Sam” Asghedom told theGrio ahead of the dedication. “It’s written in what remains here.”
“I just feel blessed, honored, appreciative, and very happy that the honor and growth remain in that section,” he said.
For Sam and the Asghedom family, the transformation of Crenshaw and Slauson represents something Nipsey spent years working toward — ownership that outlives the individual. The very lot where Nipsey once operated The Marathon Clothing store is now being reimagined as the headquarters for the Neighborhood Nip Foundation, a community hub designed to invest directly into South Los Angeles youth.
“Everybody knows Hussle’s history from walking to school and catching the bus on Crenshaw and Slauson… to opening stores, to then buying the lot, and now even having the Neighborhood Nip Foundation there,” Sam said.
The foundation will serve students from elementary through high school, combining academic development with creative opportunity. Inspired by free recording programs that helped shape Nipsey’s early musical journey, the center will include a professional-grade recording studio, but access won’t come without accountability.
Under the foundation’s model, students must complete study hours through the Vector 90 curriculum before earning studio time, reinforcing discipline alongside creativity.
“He always would message the team and me about how important those spaces were for youth,” Sam recalled. “He was like, man, just a little help goes a long way.”
Rather than reopening another retail storefront, the family chose to invest in infrastructure.
“We didn’t want to open the clothing store back up at that location,” Sam explained. “It just came to us like, man, we need to make this the Neighborhood Nip Foundation. We need to bring back that same program that Hustle wanted in that parking lot.”
The studio component is expected to launch later this year, turning the intersection into something far more lasting than a memorial. Instead, more of a pipeline.
That same long-view thinking now guides the expansion of The Marathon brand itself.
On Sunday, Marathon Burger will open its fourth location on Pine Avenue in Long Beach through a partnership with Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus. Nipsey always envisioned The Marathon as more than apparel or music.
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“He told our whole team about building a brand and gave us the blueprint,” Sam said. “He always envisioned the Marathon brand being a full lifestyle brand — music, film, fashion, and now food.”
The Long Beach expansion carries personal history. The city served as one of Nipsey’s earliest mixtape markets, making the move both strategic and symbolic. But Sam emphasized that this partnership goes beyond celebrity alignment.
“We really were appreciative that they came in with investment to help us open up a fourth location so fast,” he said, noting that the Broadus family also helped navigate local permitting and political relationships. “I don’t think we would have been able to open this location so fast without them.”
In an industry often built on endorsements, Sam draws a clear distinction between visibility and ownership.
Support, he said, means investment.
That same protective approach extends to Nipsey’s music catalog as anticipation builds around the upcoming project “Prolific.” Sam was adamant that the release is not a posthumous compilation assembled for streams.
“This is something that he put together,” Sam said. “He sequenced the track listing. He picked what made it and what didn’t.”
He described his brother as meticulous about cohesion, even removing strong songs that disrupted an album’s emotional flow.
“Many times I’m like, bro, these songs are amazing. Why are you taking them off?” Sam recalled. “He’s like, ‘Nah, it’s a good song, but it doesn’t fit the album. I want my album to have a feel and a vibe.’ That was his art, and he obsessed over it.”
The family intentionally waited years before releasing new music.
“We didn’t want to rush anything,” Sam said. “I never wanted to just compile music together and try to put it out as an album. I don’t feel that’s the correct thing to do.”
The forthcoming project features only collaborators Nipsey personally worked with, no added features designed to manufacture attention.
“These are people that he created music with,” Sam said, calling them “the usual suspects.”
As the Los Angeles Marathon approaches on March 8, the Neighborhood Nip Foundation will also serve as an official charity partner, with hundreds of runners already signed up under its banner.
“We’re going to be running,” Sam said with a laugh. “We try to make sure we finish it. That’s my main goal.”
Finishing, however, has never been the point.
What’s unfolding at Crenshaw and Slauson is not simply remembrance. It is execution. Property turned into a platform and a vision built on ownership that is expanding in real time.
The Marathon, as Blacc Sam sees it, was never meant to stop.
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The EGOT winner reflected on her early beginnings and triumphs while accepting the Chairman’s Award.
Viola Davis always meets the moment.
The EGOT winner accepted the Chairman’s Award during the 57th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, and during her speech, she reflected on her early beginnings, rising from poverty in South Carolina to the state of the country.
“I always feel like I’m going to step into feeling like I deserve it.”
“I like this quote, that the definition of hell is on your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person that you could have become,” she continued. “I say that about our nation, I say that about myself; that there is no becoming until you face the depth and the darkness of your own soul. There is no becoming without healing, and without a radical acceptance of one’s truth. I know that about myself growing up in poverty.”
She continued, “Little chocolate girl with thick lips and wide nose in Rhode Island in 1965. I didn’t see hope. I didn’t see dreams. I just wanted to be somebody. I wanted success because I thought it was significance. And no one can describe the journey of going from the little chocolate girl searching for hope, searching for God, and the girl living a transcendent life.”
“That is a hero’s journey, and we have only to follow the thread of a hero’s path. And where we had thought we would find an abomination, we shall find a God. And where we thought that we could slay the other, we will slay ourselves. And where we had thought to journey outwards, we shall come to the center of our own existence,” Davis added. “And where we had thought to be alone, we shall come to be with all the world. There is no soul of a nation without the soul of its people. And the soul of its people is not just who is represented in the breathing and alive people in this room, but by all those who are no longer here. We either move forward together or not at all. There is no man behind the curtain who has a control over your life.”
“Our crown has already been bought and paid for,” she told the audience. “All we have to do is wear it.”
Watch the full acceptance award below.
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 Domani, T.I.’s 24-year-old son and rapper, jumped into the ongoing beef in a diss track dedicated to 50 Cent’s late mother, Ms. Jackson.
“Yo mama” comments are one of the most polarizing disses in Black communities, and this week, T.I.’s children exemplified how far things can go when mamas are involved. 
In the Harris household, rap is a family affair. So when 50 Cent and T.I. reignited their long-running beef, naturally, his children, King Harris and now Domani, hopped in to defend their family—particularly their mama. After King shared his response to 50 Cent posting unflattering pictures of Tiny Harris earlier this week, Domani, 24, shocked fans with the release of a new diss track entitled “Ms. Jackson.” 
Posted to Instagram, the diss samples OutKast’s 2000 hit and speaks directly to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s late mother, Sabrina Jackson. Opening the tracker with a simple question, the 24-year-old asks Ms. Jackson, “Am I overreacting or is it valid?”
“I wanna have a one-on-one convo about the man you sacrificed your life for so the world could see his talent,” he continued. “He’s a legend now, I guess it worked out, but I need some answers/ Are you happy with the way he been holding your family name?”
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However, the track’s tone quickly gets more heated as Domani alludes to ending the “In Da Club” rapper’s life in a metaphor about a cat’s nine lives, alluding to the nine times 50 Cent was shot in 2000. 
“One more will ring the bell, and I don’t wanna do it,” he continued. “He used to be something / We thought it was a joke, but now we see it’s something awful in him / I offer him a chance to reunite with you, and I’ll do it / Nothing left to do, so I just send him to you, Ms. Jackson.” 
T.I. and 50 Cent’s simmering beef was reignited earlier this month when the Atlanta rapper shared he lost respect for the Queens rapper for backing out of their anticipated Verzuz battle. Since then, in true 50 Cent fashion, the rapper has clapped back on social media, posting jokes and memes and throwing shots at T.I., his wife, and their son, King. In response to the back and forth, T.I. released his own diss tracks letting 50 know he’s messing with “The Right One.” 
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The film grossed more than $630 million globally, making it the most successful sports film of all time, and a perfect partnership for the 34-year-old actor.
As one of the leads of the biggest sports movie of all time at the box office, Damson Idris is maximizing every possible opportunity. Now Idris is seeing his partnership with F1 expand beyond the movie.
Formula 1 announced Idris would be their latest brand ambassador, a distinguished honor for the 34-year-old actor as it coincides with “F1” vying for the Academy Award for Best Picture among other honors next month.
“I’m delighted to welcome Damson Idris officially to the Formula 1 family,” Stefano Domenicali, President and CEO of Formula 1, said. Following his starring role in ‘F1: The Movie,’ which made history at the box office and helped bring our sport to new audiences, he is joining us as an official Global Brand Ambassador. In Formula 1, we are all about authenticity and Damson is passionate about the sport and shares our vision to grow it, so it’s fantastic that we’ll continue to work with him. With his incredible platform and position in the entertainment and lifestyle space, together we will push the boundaries of how we reach fans.”
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The British actor also helped launch the new Formula 1 season with a campaign entitled “All To Drive For” which features all 22 drivers who compete in the open-wheel racing league, including Lewis Hamilton.
“I’ve always been drawn to spaces where culture, performance, and precision meet, and Formula 1 sits right at the centre of that.” Idris said. “I had an enormous amount of respect for it before making the film, but getting closer to it gave me a real understanding of the innovation, the heart, and the intensity behind everything, and the elite level the drivers operate at. I’m genuinely excited to step into this role as a Global Ambassador. Being part of this world now means a lot to me, and I’m proud to represent something that inspires and connects people all over the world.”
With the partnership, Idris will attend various Grand Prix races and support F1’s content outreach efforts to continue growing the sport.
Idris has also made it a mission to make bold red-carpet statements. At the 2025 Met Gala, he helped promote “F1: The Movie” with a daring Tommy Hilfiger suit reveal that included him being ripped out of his racing suit. The moment also served as the debut of his DIDRIS luxury jewelry line, inspired by his mother, Silifat Idris. She was a jewelry broker in Nigeria and passed down that legacy to her son.
“Anytime I think about jewelry, I always think of legacy and something that you’re going to pass down to your children,” the “Snowfall” actor told Complex. “And I wanted to make jewelry as homage to my mother because really it was a dream of hers when she was in her twenties that she never fully got to fulfill. As an artist, you’re always working with so many brands on the journey. It’s really nice to have ownership to build a legacy and to start your own journey, too.”
Idris is already plotting a way to top his Met Gala outfit as he’s chosen to wear Prada to the upcoming Academy Awards, where “F1” is nominated for four awards, including Best Picture. With a few DIDRIS jewels adorned as well.
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February 27, 2026
The school now has a Black head coach, a Black defensive coordinator, and a Black offensive coordinator
Several coaching changes on the Colorado Buffaloes’ staff have led to the university having a Black head coach, a Black defensive coordinator, and a Black offensive coordinator — a total of three Black coaches for the first time in the school’s football program.
According to USA Today, as head coach Deion Sanders prepares for his fourth football season, he is losing last season’s defensive coordinator, Robert Livingston, to the NFL, where the Denver Broncos have hired him as an assistant coach. Replacing Livingston with new linebackers coach Chris Marve created a trio of Black coaches on staff to achieve this feat.
Brennan Marion, the team’s offensive coordinator, is one of the three Black coaches.
There are 13 Black head coaches in NCAA college football this year, but none of them have offensive or defensive coordinators who are also Black, according to research from USA Today Sports. Stanford had a Black head coach, David Shaw, a Black offensive coordinator, Pep Hamilton, and a Black defensive coordinator, Derek Mason, in 2012. In 2024, Syracuse had two Black coordinators under its Black head coach, Fran Brown.
However, Colorado is the only major college school to have hired at least four non-interim Black head coaches, yet this is the first time it has had Black offensive and defensive coordinators at the same time.
Now that Livingston is leaving the school, based on the terms of his contract, he owes Colorado $160,000 to break his contract and take an assistant coaching job in the NFL.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Sapp resigned this week as an assistant coach on Sanders’s coaching staff.
Last year, just two years into his contract, Colorado rewarded Sanders by giving him a five-year, $54 million contract after he transformed the football program from a struggling team into a playoff contender. As Sanders earns a little more than $10 million a year, he is among the top 10 highest-paid coaches in the nation. He initially coached at Jackson State University before Colorado hired him to be the school’s head football coach.
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