Stacey Dash is still talking. She took to her blog to further explain her recent comments about Black History Month and why she thinks the commemoration ought to be canceled. “I’m not saying we as black people deserve LESS respect. I’m saying we deserve MORE,” she wrote. “Black History should be apart [sic] of social…

The leader of the free world weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that has dominated news headlines and has a few prominent black celebrities boycotting this year’s Academy Awards. During an interview with Los Angeles’ ABC7 Wednesday, President Obama agreed that the television and film industries should be more conscious about telling everyone’s story and,…

Unfortunately, O.J. Simpson would have to die in order to test this hypothesis: Dr. Bennet Omalu—the Nigerian doctor who inspired the movie Concussion by discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a debilitating brain disease sometimes found in football players—suspects that the NFL Hall of Famer has CTE. “I would bet my medical license that he…

A new single from Rihanna’s upcoming album, Anti, is here. It’s called “Work” and it’s tough, in the way that West Indians use the word, which is fitting, since it’s a dancehall tune. She teamed up with the 6 God, Drake, on the song, and he blends in very nicely. Rihanna posted a photo on…

In the 1990s, our R&B teenage darlings were Brandy, Monica and Aaliyah. There’s something to say about these ladies (yes, even Aaliyah’s legacy) surviving the test of time and still being cherished and relevant today. Monica’s feature story in the latest issue of Uptown magazine sheds light on her career and how much she’s grown…

Jay Z is being sued for approximately $18 million by Parlux Fragrances, a perfume company that says the hip-hop mogul reneged on a few promotional efforts for the perfume he released with the company in 2013, TMZ reports. The licensing agreement between Parlux and Jay Z for the fragrance, Gold Jay Z, reportedly mandated that…

NBA forward Blake Griffin likely fractured his hand after reportedly hitting a member of the Los Angeles Clippers’ equipment staff, ESPN reports.   Griffin, who plays for the Clippers, allegedly hit the man during the team’s restaurant stop in Toronto. Griffin and the staff member got into an argument inside the restaurant, where Griffin first struck…

For a while, all we had was this breathtaking photo from Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation film. It’s the biopic about Nat Turner, the early-19th-century slave who rounded up other slaves and led a rebellion against white slave owners, killing some 60 white people in Virginia in 1831. Parker wrote, directed and is…

Shonda Rhimes wants to set one thing straight about this idea that she did something unprecedented by casting diverse actors and actresses in her string of shows. While it may seem out of this world, Rhimes explained that she simply cast “parts for actors who were the best ones” and created “the world as it…

Stacey Dash is feeling the wrath of black America. She keeps arguing that any effort or initiative to celebrate black American achievements—e.g., Black History Month and the BET Awards—is segregation and isn’t moving the ball forward on race relations. Even though family is supposed to present a unified front out in the open, her cousin,…