What makes 'Friday' special in the pantheon of Black cinema was that it was one of the first "hood" films of its kind in the ...

Gary Gray 's iconic stoner comedy, starring N.W.A. rapper Ice Cube and a then-unknown Chris Tucker as two unemployed homies ...

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ center has been a perennial target for smack talk, but in the N.B.A. playoffs he delivers a ...

Federal prosecutors say the fearsome reputation of the Rollin' 60s gang allowed Eugene "Big U" Henley to intimidate ...

Former officers and residents recounted troubling stories about a band of young, aggressive, White cops in the 1980s and ...

Actor Laurence Fishburne learned his biological father's identity thanks to the PBS show "Finding Your Roots." Fishburne, 63, told host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. he did not know that the man who ...

He started his film career with a role in director John Singleton's 1991 feature debut of "Boyz n the Hood," named after a 1987 rap song that Ice Cube wrote. One of the speakers at Tuesday's ...

He has released 11 studio albums. Each of the first five were certified platinum and the next two certified gold. His acting career began with the 1991 film "Boyz n the Hood." ...