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The BET Awards will return for its 2022 edition on June 26 with Taraji P. Henson back to host the annual ceremony celebrating Black excellence in music, film, TV and sports at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The awards returned to a live event last year after going virtual in 2020 iteration, with Henson leading…

Taraji P. Henson was among those appointed to the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Also named to the board was NBA star Chris Paul. The members of the board work to to “increase the capacity of HBCUs to provide the highest-quality education to its students and continue…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated multi-hyphenate Taraji P. Henson is set to star in Time Alone, adapted from Alessandro Camon's award-winning play, with Camon slated to direct. Being the Ricardo producer Todd Black will produce along with Suzanne Warren. Emanuele Moretti's Motus Studios will Finance with Oakhurst…

Instagram is rapidly becoming the go-to source of Jussie Smollett defenders. Today, Smollett’s fellow Empire castmate Taraji P. Henson took to the service to plead for home confinement rather than jail for Smollett, who was sentenced Thursday to 150 days incarceration for his role in creating a hate hoax. She posted a…

Taraji P. Henson has signed on to star alongside H.E.R. and Corey Hawkins in Blitz Bazawule’s (Black Is King) adaptation of The Color Purple for Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed. The upcoming film is based on the Tony-winning musical from Marsha Norman, Brenda Lee, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, which was based on…

RuPaul’s Drag Race has unveiled its slate of guest judges with some new and returning faces set to help determine America’s Next Drag Superstar. Set to join RuPaul, Mihcelle Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Matthews in Season 14, which will premiere on Friday, Jan. 7th, are Lizzo, Alicia Keys, Dove Cameron, Taraji P…

The Effie T. Brown’s Gamechanger Films (The Inspection) is partnering with Gabrielle Union's I'll Have Another Productions and Taraji P. Henson's TPH Entertainment to produce a feature film adaptation of graphic novel Sorcerority from co-authors Mikhail Sebastian and George Watson. Sorcerority follows a young…

EXCLUSIVE: There's going to be an imperial reunion of sorts on Unmentionables. In development, the adult animated series about mismatched underwear and the millennial human who wears them will be executive produced by Anthony Hemingway and Taraji P. Henson. The Emmy-winning director was behind the camera of Fox's…

Peace Of Mind with Taraji is returning for a second go-round. Facebook Watch has renewed the Daytime Emmy-nominated series, hosted by Golden Globe-winning Taraji P. Henson and her best friend and co-host Tracie Jade, the Executive Director of Henson's Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, for a second season. Production…

The BET Awards 2021 air on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT across BET, BET Her, Logo, MTV, MTV2, TV Land and VH1. Taraji P. Henson is hosting the event live from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles after the ceremony went virtual in 2020. The annual awards celebrate the year in Black music, TV, film, sports and…

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…

There’s a new queen of mean on Easy Street. Taraji P. Henson is set to play the villainous Miss Hannigan in Annie Live!, NBC’s adaptation of the Tony-winning musical that airs in December. The former Empire star, a three-time Emmy nominee and Oscar nominee, will take on the role of the most unpleasant orphanage…