Jozen Cummings is a veteran arts and culture reporter. He has been a staff member at Vibe Magazine, XXL Magazine, and The Huffington Post, and The New York Post. His writing can also be found at Complex, Gawker, Grantland, the Wall Street Journal, and Billboard, for which he covered Season One of Empire. Jozen's personal blog "Until I Get Married" is currently in development to be a television series with Warner Bros. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram @JozenC
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Episode 10: Talking Race & Writing with Empire's Creator
Thursday, December 03, 2015
As Season Two of 'Empire' hits halftime, we go behind the scenes with its creator and writer, Danny Strong.
Episode 9: All in the Black Family
Thursday, November 26, 2015
We talk to NPR TV critic Eric Deggans about the hippest—thought not exactly the happiest—black family on TV.
Episode 8: Young, Gifted, and Black — and Gay
Thursday, November 19, 2015
In this episode, Hakeem carried the day. But whatever happened to Jamal? Y'know, the gay one who had a huge storyline for the entirety of Season One?
Episode 7: The Art of Blackness
Thursday, November 12, 2015
A conversation about what it means when the biggest show on TV features the work of black visual artists.
Episode 6: An Empire GIF for Every Occasion
Thursday, November 05, 2015
Giphy's Tyler Menzel tells us why Empire is the most GIF-able show on TV.
Interlude: Walking in Cookie's Shoes...and Fedora
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Doesn't matter what baseball team you root for, we all root for Cookie. And some of us dress like her: we found someone who made a life experiment out of copping Cookie's style.
Episode 4: Gimme That Bomb Beat From... Hakeem?
Thursday, October 15, 2015
There's an ocean of credible 'Empire' hip hop beyond "Drip Drop" and we take a dive into the deep end.
Episode 3: Prowling the Catwalk with the Lyons
Thursday, October 08, 2015
From zebra stripes to golden girdles, this week we crawl inside the Lyons' den and check out their amazing ensembles.
Episode 2: Ludacris, You Could've at Least Taught Lucious to Rap
Thursday, October 01, 2015
After a bonkers season premiere, episode two gave us a much needed moment to think. So we brought back Kevin Brown, a.k.a. Dot Com from 30 Rock, to talk Blackness.
Episode 1: The Lyons, the Gorilla Suit, and the Wardrobes
Thursday, September 24, 2015
We knew the Season 2 premiere of Empire would be bonkers, so we kicked it off with a live viewing party followed by an all-star panel. Hear what went down.
The Lyons Return
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Welcome to the Empire Afterparty! Meet your host Jozen Cummings, and go inside the mind of Lee Daniels.
Empire Recap: Ride or Die
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Andre is off his meds and careening towards a gurney, while Anika's treachery with a rival record company leads to all-out war.
A Player Leaves the Game
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Jozen Cummings, dating reporter for the New York Post, knows his way around the singles scene, enough so that he was taking out three girls a day for a while.
