Welcome to The original Cocoa Lounge (lovingly known as cocoalounge.com).A tribute to beautiful black women in entertainment: The Cocoa Lounge celebrates black models, black actresses, black women filmmakers, women in hip hop, black women writers and screenwriters, black animators, black female directors, black women in fashion. This site is dedicated to those who paved the way (and continue to pave it:) from actresses Hattie Mc Daniel, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ruby Dee, Marpessa Dawn, Butterfly McQueen, Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Diahann Carroll, Diana Sands, Leslie Uggams, Brenda Sykes, Judy Pace, and Whoopi Goldberg to newer talents, Kerry Washington, Shareeka Epps, Claire Hope Ashitey, Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union, Nia Long, Malinda Williams, Regina King, Kimberly Elise, Halle Berry and Angela Bassett.From filmmakers to television producers, Kasi Lemmons, Gina Prince Bythewood, Julie Dash, Darnell Martin, Euzhan Palcy, Leslie Harris, Mara Brock Akil, Felicia D. Henderson and Yvette Lee Bowser. Hip Hop pioneers: Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, Salt N Pepa, and MC Lyte to Jean Grae, Eve, and Missy Elliott. Models, Beverly Peele, Jordan Richardson, Naomi Campbell, Sherica Maynard, Jessica White. All that and more on Cocalounge.com serving the internet community since 2000 with news, information, polls, interviews and resources.