Thanks to Lionsgate, students at Howard University in D.C. are getting a chance to learn the entertainment business through paid internship programs. Lionsgate is the first entertainment company to join forces with Howard University to start the educational institute’s program that has allows six to 12 students to…

UPDATED with LAPD road closures, 11:17 AM: The Los Angeles Police Department has released its list or street closures and restrictions for “avoiding possible traffic congestion” for President Donald Trump’s visit to LA and Beverly Hills today. All the info is at the bottom of the post.

Deeply unpopular in California, P…

Refresh for updates. It didn’t take long for social media to start chiming in about the release of a summary of Robert Mueller’s report. When Attorney General William Barr made the four-page summary public, it was found that “the special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated…

BET is set to air a special this weekend hosted by Soledad O'Brien on criminal justice reform titled American Injustice: A BET Town Hall.

The one-hour broadcast will explore what BET describes as “the stark racial disparities that plague America's criminal justice system and offers solutions.”

O’Brien will be joined by…

Bernie Sanders’ first town hall since declaring himself a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate clocked 1.40 million viewers Monday night on CNN. While Sanders was no match for Kamala Harris, who drew the biggest crowd for a single-candidate town hall in CNN history with just under 2M viewers on January 28, his is…

Kamala Harris drew 20,000 people to her first campaign rally Sunday in Oakland, and it looks like she has drawing power on the small screen as well. CNN said today that its Monday night event with the junior senator from California was “the most-watched cable news single-candidate election town hall” ever among the…

As expected, California Sen. Kamala Harris officially announced her 2020 White House bid on Martin Luther King Day morning.

Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos set the stage, noting Harris first had been elected to the Senate in 2016 after 20 years as a prosecutor, including stints as San…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump commended those who apprehended Floridian Cesar Sayoc Jr. in connection with  "packages and devices” that have been mailed to “high profile figures throughout the country and a media organization."

“I am pleased to inform you that law enforcement has apprehended a suspect,” Trump said th…

U.S. Senator for California, Kamala Harris visited Ellen DeGeneres’ show to lay out the “joyful warriors” platform for her future presidential run while simultaneously dodging all questions as to whether she will run in 202o.

That did not deter Ellen, who took to calling California's first African American senator, “Po…

The Sen. Kamala Harris talk at CAA Take Action Day ended up being the most attended of the many conversations and panels on Thursday that ranged from immigration and the environment to politics, politics, politics. It was standing-room only as the 224-seat theater became a fire marshal’s nightmare. People lined the…

CAA is hosting a Take Action Day tomorrow billed as “a daylong, non-partisan summit” presented by the agency’s foundation. The event at the agency’s headquarters in Century City will have a bevy of speakers from Planned Parenthood to the ACLU and from the Muslim Public Affairs Council to the Human Rights Campaign.

Thos…