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Taraji P. Henson is set as host of the 2021 BET Awards, which will be handed out this month. BET also said today that Emmy winner and The Equalizer star Queen Latifah will receive the show’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The in-person ceremony, whose theme this year is “Year of the Black Woman,” is set for 8 p.m. June…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Latifah’s shingle Flavor Unit Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company are developing a film adaptation of The Conductors, the fantasy debut novel by Nicole Glover. Released back in March of this year, the book introduces Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who…

The Equalizer’s Queen Latifah and NCIS: Los Angeles star LL Cool J reflected on their trailblazing journeys through the music and entertainment industries, from breaking through to inspiring a new generation of artists. In a conversation at the virtual SXSW Film Festival moderated by Deadline’s own Dominic Patten…

Queen Latifah seeks to stake her claim in The Equalizer franchise as she takes on part-time mom and part-time hero Robyn McCall in CBS’ reimagining of the classic 1985 series. While the Girls Trip actress may be the first Black woman portraying the Equalizer in the franchise’s span, powerful Black women seeking to do…

Like many festivals, South by Southwest (SXSW) is going online this year, which is a seamless transition considering the Austin-based festival has always included a large digital component. SXSW Online, which takes place March 16-20, has unveiled its initial wave of Featured Speakers and over 230 conference sessions…

Queen Latifah makes her debut as an under-the-radar crime fighter in the teaser for CBS’s The Equalizer. The teaser, which dropped on Saturday, unveils the secret life of Latifah’s Robyn McCall. When Robyn’s daughter asks her about abrupt departure from work, Robyn shares the ever-popular nonanswer: “It’s complicated.&#8221…

Queen Latifah has signed on to lead the Netflix thriller End of the Road, a feature film that Millicent Shelton is attached to direct. Shelton has mostly directed music videos and TV episodes for P-Valley, Insecure, The Walking Dead, Titans, Black-ish and the pilot of the upcoming Starz comedy series Run The…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Goldberg has been tapped as a lead opposite Queen Latifah in The Equalizer reboot, which has a straight-to-series order at CBS to launch this season. A reimagining of the classic series, The Equalizer stars Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Latifah, Oscar winner Robert Duvall, and Ben Foster will star opposite Adam Sandler in Hustle, the Netflix basketball feature which is being directed by Jeremiah Zagar. Sandler, who earlier this year extended his production deal with the streamer, will produce under Happy Madison banner, with LeBron…

EXCLUSIVE: Quibi announced new series Thursday that seeks to shine a light on influential Black women who have impacted American style, beauty and culture. Black Equals Beauty is the video platform’s latest title and comes from producers Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Holly Carter and Cassian Elwes. The Same Difference…

UPDATED with new time: Facebook Watch has teamed with Will Packer Media and Jesse Collins on a one-hour special to commemorate the historic 1963 March on Washington and its impact on the civil rights movement. Hosted by Queen Latifah, Change Together: From the March on Washington to Today will premiere Thursday…

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning singer and Black Lightning and Why Did I Get Married? actor Jill Scott will play the Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson, in Mahalia!, a new big-screen take that’s being executive produced by Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah and her partner Shakim Compere and Clark Sisters EP Holly Carter. Written by…