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Byline: Bethonie Butler, Luis Velarde Wisin might not be your favorite reggaetonero. But chances are he's one of your favorite reggaetonero's favorite reggaetoneros. For more than two decades, the Puerto [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler - - - Correction: An earlier version of this story described series character Kim Reese as an aspiring lawyer. In fact, she was an aspiring doctor. The [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler - - - Correction: A previous version of this article gave the incorrect publication year of Natalie Baszile's novel 'Queen Sugar.' It was released in 2014, not [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler We're in a golden age of Black television. Following decades of hard-fought battles, Black creators, writers, producers and stars are better positioned than ever to tell their [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards gave nods to the past while looking to the future in a ceremony that honored Shakira and Diddy for their pivotal [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler By all accounts, 2023 was shaping up to be a rough year for Shakira. She and her longtime partner, Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, were in the midst [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Before 'The Other Black Girl' had even hit bookshelves in 2021, Hulu had already snapped up the rights to bring Zakiya Dalila Harris's fictional thriller to the [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The heat has been oppressive, Hollywood is on strike and the ocean is scarier than ever - so who could blame us for seeking refuge in something [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler When writer-producer Gloria Calderón Kellett listened to 'The Horror of Dolores Roach,' a 'Sweeney Todd'-inspired fictional podcast about a woman who becomes a serial killer, she sent [...]

In "I'm a Virgo," the new Prime Video series from director-musician Boots Riley, 13-foot-tall Cootie (Jharrel Jerome) breaks free from his sheltered childhood to discover the world - or at [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler 'The Blackening' starts out as many of the horror films that have come before it: A group of friends travels to a remote cabin for a restful [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler It seems impossible now, but once upon a time Hollywood didn't quite know what to do with Jessica Biel. After finding fame in the mid-'90s as the [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler When did Peso Pluma realize he'd made it? Was it performing alongside Becky G at Coachella? Singing 'Ella Baila Sola,' his collab with the group Eslabon Armado, [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler When it comes to Cleopatra, the enigmatic ruler whose political savvy - and romantic entanglements - have made her an endless source of fascination, Hollywood has never [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Reggaeton pioneer Tego Calderón released his first solo music in more than eight years on Friday, dropping 'La Receta' ('The Prescription'), a smooth track that casts El [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler With so much TV to choose from on so many ever-changing platforms, it can be tough for broadcast series to break through the noise. But there was [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler 'Praise This' begins with an infectious go-go number that sounds a lot like '1 Thing,' Amerie's 2005 hit about an unforgettable crush. But the Peacock film's opening [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Cuffing season is over and those summer nights are a few months away, but an intriguing constellation of relationships is heating up in Hollywood. Love is in [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler For iLe, the idea of calling her third album 'Nacarile' started as a joke. The title played on a phrase ('Nacarile del oriente') commonly used in Puerto [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The tripledemic threat has (thankfully) gone away, but for some people cold, flu, covid and other viruses are still making the rounds. We'll leave the medical advice [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Seven artists hoping to stage an exhibit at the Smithsonian's preeminent contemporary art museum are competing against each other with a decidedly modern twist: The contest will [...]

Byline: Helena Andrews-Dyer and Bethonie Butler Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday after he was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and sexual misconduct in [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler For the first time in the six-plus-decade history of the Grammy Awards, the ceremony's most prestigious award - album of the year - could go to a [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler and Julian Mark Beyoncé announced in an Instagram post Wednesday that she is embarking on a world tour in support of her Grammy-nominated album 'Renaissance,' and it [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Robert Townsend needed no introduction, at least not for Eric Garcia. The 'Kaleidoscope' creator counted himself a fan of Townsend's since the director's 1987 feature debut, 'Hollywood [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The music video for Three 6 Mafia's 'Tear Da Club Up '97' features a periscope's view of an underground nightclub filled mostly with hyped-up young men who [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler All those best-of-the-year lists are finite, but good television - in the enduring era of too much television - is not. Here are some of the hidden [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Whether you live for the holidays or you're more of a 'bah, humbug' type, there are plenty of TV shows, movies and specials to help you get [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler It's been more than four decades since Octavia E. Butler published 'Kindred,' her genre-defying novel about a young Black woman who spontaneously travels through time from 1976 [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews, Helena Andrews-Dyer, David Betancourt, Bethonie Butler and Sonia Rao As the so-called Golden (and Silver) Ages of television continue to recede in the rearview mirror, we've [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler In 1967, a young Irene Cara appeared on Ted Mack's 'Original Amateur Hour,' where she sang a song titled 'Ola! Ola! Ola!' Ola is the Spanish word [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The holidays are upon us, which means we'll soon be gathering with our families, chosen or biological. That can be a beautiful and/or stressful time for many [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Three years after her international breakout 'El Mal Querer' won album of the year at the 2019 Latin Grammys, Spanish singer Rosalía pulled off another stunning victory [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler When 'Dead to Me' premiered in the spring of 2019, it set viewers up for one shocking reveal after another. The Netflix dark comedy wasn't exactly honest [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Prosecutors in Britain have authorized additional charges against the actor Kevin Spacey, including three counts of sexual assault related to incidents alleged to have taken place between [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler (EDITORS: This article discusses plot points from the final season of 'Atlanta.') - - - The opening of 'Atlanta's' final season found its main cast navigating various [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler At the 2017 BET Awards, Quavo, Offset and Takeoff - members of Atlanta rap trio Migos - were reflecting on their success in a red-carpet interview with [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler When spooky season and the cool autumn weather converge, there's nothing we love more than cozying up to a scary (and/or scary good) TV show or movie. [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler La reina (the queen) is back. The third season of Telemundo's hit series 'La Reina del Sur' premiered Tuesday, reuniting the world with Teresa Mendoza (Kate del [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler In the fall of 2018, New York magazine published an engrossing account of the nightmare that unfolded after Derek and Maria Broaddus bought what they thought was [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Jenifer Lewis sashays into a theater at the AFI in Silver Spring, Md., where fans are waiting to hear her talk about her new book, 'Walking In [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The true-crime cottage industry that exploded in the years following 'Serial,' the podcast that became a cultural phenomenon in 2014, is inherently exploitative - even when the [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler When Bad Bunny made his television debut on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' in September 2018, he opened with a reminder that his native Puerto Rico [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The British monarchy is one of the most impervious institutions of the modern world. Queen Elizabeth II, who ruled for 70 years before her death on Sept. [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler, Sonia Rao and Emily Yahr Yes, the Emmy Awards were on a Monday this year - it happens occasionally thanks to football. So if you missed the [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler In the well-reviewed debut season of 'This Fool,' there's a scene in which protagonist Julio (played by series co-creator Chris Estrada) sees a stranger stealing his family's [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler We've reached the last broody stretch of summer, which feels like the perfect time to stay in and watch an absorbing miniseries. This year has brought many [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler The texts and emails began a few months ago after a leaked Supreme Court decision appeared to signal the impending end of Roe v. Wade. After the [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler Celebrity breakups can be visceral and wrenching, especially when you don't see them coming. So it was especially painful on Monday when Showtime announced the abrupt cancellation [...]

Byline: Bethonie Butler From 'The Boondocks' to 'The Simpsons' to 'Afro Samurai,' there is a well-established history of rappers lending their voices and music to animated TV shows. But there's [...]