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Danielle Brooks was destined to play iconic gospel artist and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson. At Lifetime’s TCA presentation of Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia today, the Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award-winning actress said that the seed was planted years before the project came about. Brooks recalled how…

Robin Roberts and ESPN Films have teamed on a documentary about WNBA star-turned-activist Maya Moore and her years-long fight to free a man from prison for a crime he did not commit. The untitled documentary project, produced in partnership with Roberts’ Rock'n Robin Productions, will explore Moore's unwavering faith…

ABC's 20/20 tonight followed a commercial free network premiere of Black Panther with the special Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute For A King. The hastily prepared special – the family of the 43-year old Boseman only announced his death from colon cancer Friday evening – brought together some of the actors in the Marvel…

UPDATE 12:20 PM: ABC just announced that Good Morning America Co-Anchor Robin Roberts will anchor tonight’s ABC News special Chadwick Boseman – A Tribute for a King, which will air following a commercial-free presentation of Black Panther, and released a teaser: BREAKING | TONIGHT ON ABC: Marvel's "Black Panther"…

Lifetime has extended its partnership with journalist Robin Roberts for four new movies and they are about to fuel the soul with Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story. The movie will star Tony Award nominee, SAG and Grammy Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color…

ABC News will air a primetime special on Tuesday on the protests and outrage that have followed the death of George Floyd. America in Pain: What Comes Next will be anchored by Robin Roberts, David Muir and Byron Pitts, with reporting from network correspondents. The special will air at 9 PM ET. According to the…

Good Morning America host Robin Roberts said that she will be working at home starting with Wednesday’s broadcast because of concerns of over catching the coronavirus given her pre-existing conditions. On Tuesday, Roberts featured her doctor, Gail Roboz, who advised those with underlying medical conditions to take…

Refresh for updates… Oprah Winfrey, who co-produced and starred in the 1998 feature adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and was one of Morrison’s most devoted admirers, has added her voice to those mourning the author today. "In the beginning was the Word,” writes Winfrey on Instagram. “Toni Morrison took the word…

Emmy winner Niecy Nash (When They See Us, Claws) is set to star in Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story, the first movie greenlit by Lifetime under the Robin Roberts Presents movie and documentary banner, from Rock'n Robin and Lincoln Square Productions. Production is currently underway on the movie, executive produced…

Ironically, a woman named after a baseball player will host ABC’s opening night presentation for the 2019 National Football League draft, marking its first coverage of the annual player dispersal. Good Morning America's Robin Roberts will be live from Nashville on Thursday, April 25 starting at 8 PM ET on ABC and via…

Fox News host Jesse Watters apologized after confusing CBS This Morning‘s Gayle King with ABC’s Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts. It came during a segment Wednesday on Fox’s The Five as Watters was trying to compliment King for her composure and professionalism during her R. Kelly interview in which the R&B singer…

A week after her exclusive interview with Empire actor Jussie Smollett, Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts is calling the actor’s alleged hoax “a setback for race relations, homophobia, MAGA supporters.” “I cannot think of another case where there is this anger on so many sides, and you can understand why there…