Colin Kaepernick has had enough and is taking his latest battle to the courtroom.

The sports star has risen to global prominence after protesting the unjust killings of Black people in the US by kneeling for the National Anthem during NFL games.

Naturally, his actions attracted much attention – not all of which has been positive.

Indeed, he’s been relegated to free agent status; and with no teams publicly making a beeline to snap him up, his future on the field looks uncertain.

Believing the situation to be no coincident, he has filed suit.

Details below…

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ABC hit ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ is back for a firework filled-fourth season.

The legal drama, which stars Emmy winner Viola Davis, follows a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defence professor.

Last season brought with it a countless list of shocking twists (including a major death) and the newest instalment is already delivering a whole lot more.

It all makes for a riveting watch. And like millions, we’re all sorts of hooked hooked!

Peep the preview of episode 4 of season 4 – titled ‘Was She Ever Good at Her Job?’ below…

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‘Scandal’ is back for its 7th and final season.

Over the years, the Kerry Washington led show has boasted some of the most dramatic twists and turns in TV history and its swan song promises even more.

Forming a central part of the revived TGIT (Thank God It’s Thursday) block of programming, the political drama looks set to go out with a bang. A consolation, no doubt, for having to

Watch a sneak peek preview of episode 3, titled ‘Day 101,’ below…

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NeNe Leakes seems to have lost her role as the host of the forthcoming Xscape reunion tour.

Bad news below…

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After four seasons, it’s curtains for ‘Being Mary Jane.’ But fret not because the BET series is being given a seismic send-off.

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Azealia Banks‘ ‘Coco’ has bagged a new release date…and a new name.

Its new title?

‘Love Beats Rhymes.’

The movie stars Lorraine Toussaint, Jill Scott, Common and Lucient Laviscount and faced the threat of being shelved after Banks battled director RZA following his decision to side with Russell Crowe in the incident detailed here.

Watch below…

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Terry Crews has lifted the lid on male on male sexual violence within  Hollywood with hopes doing so will protect his peers from the industry’s predators.

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Like fellow demo-specific entertainment networks BET and Lifetime, TV One had found success by cutting into the ‘biopic pie,’ namely of musicians.

While BET’s New Edition mini-series and Lifetime’s Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, and Aaliyah made-for-TV biographical films have led the ratings race for the past few years in the particular genre, TV One took home a relative win in 2016 with their take on the life of Grammy-nominated R&B unsung beauty Miki Howard.

Hoping for a redo of that ratings magic, TV One tapped former child star Ty Hodges to direct an unauthorized recount of the life of pop icon Whitney Houston‘s only daughter Bobbi Kristina.  Titled ‘Bobbi Kristina,’ the film depicted her very public life as the child of two well-known (and troubled) celebrities – Houston and husband Bobby Brown – to her own tumultuous teenage years and untimely passing at the age of 22 in 2015.

The movie, despite being preceded by a controversial disapproval from the Houston estate as well as a lawsuit from Bobby Brown (click here to read more about that), still marched onto TV screens Sunday, October 8th at 8p/7p CST.  The problem?  Not many people were waiting for it there…

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Nene Leakes has lost the plot. Officially.

Fresh from her digital brawl with Brielle Biermann (daughter of Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Kim Zolciak), the reality star has once again shown just how uncouth she can be.

During a stand-up show gone wrong, the aspiring comedienne was reportedly being heckled by an unimpressed audience member.

Unable to take the heat, Leakes responded by telling the woman that she “hopes she got raped by her Uber driver on the way home.” Yes, you read right.

See the shocking moment below…

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After several false-starts and confusion surrounding its release, Halle Berry‘s ‘Kidnap‘ has rocked the box office!

Awesome news below…

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Welcome to Retro Rewind, the TGJ original feature designed to celebrate TV and Film’s glorious past.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Janet Jackson‘s ‘Velvet Rope.’

Recognised for the impact it made on the star’s career and those of the artists who would follow in her footsteps years later, the album’s content gave Jackson many an opportunity to bare all on love, life and growth through conversations with some of her favourite platforms.

One of these, of course, was MTV.

Today, we make our way back to ’97 to revisit her time with MTV Ultrasound.

Are you coming with us? Sweet, hop in.

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Amazon‘s answer to ‘Black Mirror‘ has called on Janelle Monae to lead it to glory.

Named ‘Electric Dreams‘, the anthology series sees some of the industry’s brightest creatives build stand-alone stories inspired by Philip K. Dick tales with help from some of music, film and TV’s familiar faces.

Of course, the triple threat Monae is one of them.

Despite society and the world as we know it having collapsed, a massive, automatic product-manufacturing factory continues to operate according to the principles of consumerism – humans consume products to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will. When a small band of rebels decide to shut down the factory, they discover they may actually be the perfect consumers after all.

Trailer below…

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