Talk about a blast from the past! Brooklyn rapper Foxy Brown got caught up in the moment last night on The Mo’Nique Show and was visibly humbled when she walked onstage to rapturous applause. The emcee took a seat on Mo’Nique’s couch next to her idol and namesake – legendary actress Pam Grier.

Foxy was quite emotional as she told the audience how she came to ask Grier, whom she refers to as her “second mother”, for permission to use her iconic screen name as her performing alias – and goes on to talk about waking up with her hearing ‘100% gone’ overnight [in 2005], which has since returned. Fox also has a response to haters criticizing her on her weight gain. Here’s what she had to say via her twitter:

“I swear next time yall see FOX, honey gon’ be 125lbs lookin’ like Broken Silence!!!”

Take a look:

Foxy Brown Wants You To Know She’s Coming Back!

Pam Grier Reveals Intimate Details About Richard Pryor

Growing up I remember my daddy always talking about some chick named Pam Grier. Didn’t know who she was, but I knew he liked her by the way he said her name . Well, when I got in college I went through my “Black Exploitation Movie” phase and I soon found out what the hype was all about concerning Ms. Brown. She was the sexy black female star of the ’70s and the men absolutely loved her. She starred in films like “Coffee” , “Foxy Brown” and “Sheba Baby”.

Well her latest project is on the 9th session of Smallville. She will play Amanda Waller.  Her character, created by writer John Ostrander is the leader of the “Suicide Squad”—a team of super villains forced to go on black ops missions for the government—Amanda Waller was nicknamed “The Wall” for her refusal to back down to anyone… even Batman.

You can check her out starting in January on the CW.

 So go ahead Ms Brown…  at the age of 60 and still doing your thing !

Oscar pioneers Dorothy Dandridge and Halle Berry join Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey as subjects of the new book “Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film.”

Author Mia Mask, who teaches film and drama at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., said she was inspired to write the book after noticing the huge amount of attention given to black male stars, while their female counterparts were often looked over.

“These women have pushed the racial boundaries for audiences, setting new standards for beauty and body type,” Mask told the Associated Press.

Dandridge received an Academy Award nomination for her lead role in the 1954 classic “Carmen Jones,” alongside Harry Belafonte. Berry won an Oscar in 2000 for playing the wife of an executed murderer in “Monster’s Ball.” She also had portrayed Dandridge as a stunning femme fatale in a 1999 HBO film about Dandridge’s life.

When Dandridge became a star, “she was working in an environment in which there were almost no women of color (in leading roles),” said Mask, and Dandridge “had to fit into the mold of shapely and svelte.”

Grier was chosen for her ability in the early 70s to break that mold with her forceful but hip physical presence as an action heroine. As for Winfrey, Mask said she chose her because the talk-show host’s television presence catapulted her film appearances to the level of global stardom, transcending any category.

In spite of vast changes, Mask said, sore points persist in casting black women for star roles: a paucity of quality parts, and a new trend of pairing black lead actors with female leads who are not.

“Studio heads don’t think two black characters will appeal to general audiences,” said Mask.

She chose Dandridge and Berry “as bookends” for the time span that transformed black women in commercial films.

“We’ve gone from the trope of the tragic (mulatto) to biracial beauty,” said Mask, who is taping a five-part series for National Public Radio to air in late October — each on one of the women in the book.