Lamar Odom walked into Kanye West’s fashion show at Madison Square Garden in New York City Thursday night, seemingly in great shape. The former NBA forward has come a long way since being found unconscious at a Las Vegas brothel in October because of an overdose and reportedly suffering several strokes and kidney failure. According…

Cam Newton—black America’s favorite quarterback at the moment—didn’t win Super Bowl 50, but Beyoncé won the Super Bowl halftime performance, and Kevin Hart won a Super Bowl commercial contest. Hart’s Hyundai commercial, in which he plays an overly protective dad who sneaks out on his daughter’s date, won USA Today’s annual poll of the best…

Here’s the story of how a couple of Black Lives Matter activists got Beyoncé’s dancers to hold up a “Justice 4 Mario Woods” sign after her Super Bowl halftime performance.  Mario Woods was a 26-year-old man who was shot more than a dozen times by San Francisco police, a killing that many Black Lives Matter…

I was worried that Beyoncé’s comeback would overshadow Rihanna’s new album, Anti, and the Anti World Tour. Beyoncé’s “Formation” single, released on Saturday, made a heck of an impact, but Rihanna has celebrating of her own to do. Back in July, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that Rihanna was the first and only…

They say that when you make it, you should be sure to send the elevator back down for those who are trying to come up, too. Power actor Omari Hardwick is incredibly grateful to Denzel Washington and his entire family for looking out for him when he was a struggling actor. During an interview with…

Jada Pinkett Smith brought up a good point during an impromptu interview with a TMZ reporter Tuesday. It’s a point that bears a resemblance to Chris Rock’s scratch-and-sniff joke he made several years ago: Black people don’t always vote for other black people. We are discerning people who seek out high-quality performances at award shows…

Look at what sweet Beyoncé done went and started. She thrust herself right smack dab in the middle of the Black Lives Matter movement with her Super Bowl halftime performance. Now she has to put with nonsense from people who think that BLM promotes reverse racism. Someone got on Eventbrite to promote news of an…

When presenters at the Crunchies, an annual technology award show, announced Monday night in San Francisco that the software company Slack—an internal-messaging program used by companies—had won the Fastest Rising Startup Award, most people expected two, maybe three white dudes to walk onstage to accept the award.  But when Slack’s name was called, four black women walked…

Beyoncé is a woman of few words, so the three sentences she said to the press after her haltime performance at Super Bowl 50 mean everything to the Beyhive. Without further ado, here they are:  “It makes me proud. It’s what I wanted,” she said to an Entertainment Tonight reporter when she was told how…

Will Smith has finally spoken about Janet Hubert, the actress who says Smith ruined her career and reputation when he got her fired from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Hubert rehashed the issue recently when she argued that the Smiths were being disingenous and self-serving for boycotting the Academy Awards and encouraging other black entertainers…