The latest chapter in the grand saga of the made-for-Netflix television kinda-revolution is Orange Is The New Black, a new show from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan about a woman who goes to prison. (It’s a comedy, obviously.) The show is set to debut later this week, and it will feature “You’ve Got Time,” a fas...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teenage Olympian Gabrielle Douglas, rapper Kendrick Lamar, actor Jamie Foxx as well as singers Rihanna and Nicki Minaj were among the top winners at the annual BET Awards on Sunday. The BET Awards celebrate black musicians, actors and athletes. The program is televised on the cable TV network BET, Black Entertainment Televis...

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Beyonce will kick off the first BET three-day music festival on Friday, ahead of the BET awards this weekend, as the network hopes to attract more fans to music and comedy by black artists. The annual BET awards, now in its 13th year, celebrate black musicians, actors and athletes across a variety...

“My brother’s back at home with his Beatles and his Stones/ But we never got it off on that revolution stuff/ What a drag/ Too many snags/ Now the television man is crazy saying we’re juvenile delinquent wrecks/ Oh man, I need TV/ when I got T. Rex?” – David Bowie, “All The Young Dudes&...

By Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - Almost 25 years ago, Bruce Springsteen gave communist East Germany its biggest ever rock concert in a performance that fuelled a spirit of rebellion and may have contributed to events that brought down the Berlin Wall, a new book says. In "Rocking the Wall", U.S. journalist Erik Kirschbaum ...