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About Cortney Wills

Cortney M. Wills is the Entertainment Director at TheGrio and host of our latest podcast initiative, Acting Up.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, the Medill alum began her career at Time Inc. and has since covered music, film, television, and pop culture for numerous publications including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, MTV News, JET, and more.
Much of her work at TheGrio focuses on holding Hollywood accountable and examines how stories about our people, our culture, and our communities are being told on screens big and small.
She’s currently based in Los Angeles where she resides with her husband and children.

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November 15, 2017
Tiffany Haddish is on a roll. The actress who recently made history for being the first black comedienne to host
November 15, 2017
The 54-year-old comedian comes clean about his heavy past
November 15, 2017
There’s a new celebrity couple ready to take over the small screen
November 15, 2017
The American Music Awards are just around the corner and we have a big reason to get excited about the
November 10, 2017
Eminem is ready for a revival. The Grammy-winning rapper just served up his first single in four years and he
November 10, 2017
Kenya Moore has never been known to hold her tongue, and she has a few choice words for Kim Zolciak
November 10, 2017
50 Cent wears many hats. He’s a rapper, actor, executive producer and entrepreneur. But he deserves another title:  ‘Biggest Bully
November 9, 2017
We need to talk about Tyrese. This man has been spiraling down a path of destruction for weeks and we’re
November 9, 2017
Real Housewives of Atlanta kicked off its tenth season last week and the show was missing a familiar face. Phaedra
November 8, 2017
While plenty of people had a problem with Toya's assertions that Jackie was culpable in her husband’s cheating scandal, they…
November 8, 2017
Jason Mamoa, 38, and Lisa Bonet, 49, have been together for 12 years but they made it official in a
November 8, 2017
NBC aired the N-word on one of their most popular shows last night and it was shocking for all the
November 7, 2017
DMX is heading back to the small screen in a new reality series about his life. According to reports, In
November 6, 2017
[griojw id=”oucGzury” playerid=””] Cynthia Bailey is not shedding any tears about turning 50. Instead, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star
November 6, 2017
B.O.B. is deep, y’all. He’s so deep we can’t even find him with the scuba gear and the lights they
November 6, 2017
The hip-hop mogul just can't seem to stick to one name.
November 4, 2017
This week’s episode of Scandal had us reaching for the wine bottle more often than we’d like to admit. I
November 3, 2017
Here's a rundown of  what’s ahead for this group of frenemies who are never short on shade...
November 2, 2017
Robin Thede is giving us our whole entire life by serving up beauty, brains, and some much-needed comic relief on…