Like a perfectly timed high note in a torch song, Bessie doesn't tiptoe into queerness as filmmaker Dee Rees gives us a love letter to Black, bisexual brilliance. After all, when history forgets our ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Many viewers will come to the HBO biopic “Bessie” with scant knowledge of its subject, blues legend Bessie Smith. But in the title role, Queen Latifah schools you with a bruising ...

*Queen Latifah is no longer gracing the airwaves with her daily talk show, but she will be back on the small screen shortly. If you haven’t heard, Lafifah is bringing blues pioneer Bessie Smith back ...

*Queen Latifah will vie for her first Emmy Award next month. The actress is nominated for her lead performance in the HBO film “Bessie,” but her portrayal of blues legend Bessie Smith has already had ...

Producers Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck first approached Queen Latifah more than 20 years ago about playing blues great Bessie Smith. Two decades later, Latifah is finally doing just that, starring in ...

The best Queen Latifah movies and TV shows came after she had already established a solid career as a rapper in the early 1990s. Latifah released her debut album in 1989 when she was only 19 called ...

Queen Latifah just took home the Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her role in HBO’s Bessie. “I’m in shock right now,” ...