Entertainment & Society

Rapper Azealia Banks has launched another social media beef, and this time her target is Rihanna. Banks called out the Barbados-born Rihanna after the singer tweeted : "Disgusted! The news is devastating! America is being ruined right before our eyes!"...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, (THEWILL) - Nigerian author and popular novelist, Buchi Emecheta, has died at her home in London at the age of 72, according to report. The UK-based novelist and author of The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, (THEWILL) - Big Brother Naija, which has returned to the television screen after its first edition held 10 years ago was top on Google search this week, an official said on Thursday. The Google's Communications and...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, (THEWILL) - MultiChoice Nigeria has explained that its decision to film the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality television show in South Africa was because of its desire to deliver the same high quality production that...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 25, (THEWILL) - Nigerian pop icon, Innocent Ujah Idibia, popularly known by his stage name 2face Idibia, or 2Baba, has called on Nigerians to join him in a nationwide protest against bad governance in the country. According...

With "alternative facts" the latest catchphrase, George Orwell's "1984" is No. 1 on Amazon.com and the publisher has ordered an additional 75,000 copies. Signet Classics told The Associated Press in a statement Wednesday that sales have been "remarkably robust" for...

Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV's beloved "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday. She was 80. Moore gained fame in the 1960s as the frazzled...

The candy-colored love letter to musicals "La La Land" landed a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations on Tuesday, while a notably more diverse field of nominees brushed off two straight years of "OscarsSoWhite" backlash. "La La Land" matched "Titanic" and...

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has abandoned plans to preside over the French equivalent of the Oscars, after protests from France's women's rights minister and feminist groups prompted by decades-old U.S. sex charges against him. It's a surprising setback for the 83-year-old...

Olivia Pope gets a lot of credit for being a powerful woman, but it’s the woman behind the fictional character who is helping to create real change in an industry that’s woefully lacking in women and people of color...