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Kim Fields Quits The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Kim Fields wants no more of the tomfoolery. The former child actress, who went on to play Régine on Living Single and then raised a few eyebrows when she became a cast member on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, said that she will not be returning for another season of the reality show. Apparently her…
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Yaaas, Watch the Trailer for the Unsung Episode of New York Undercover
New York Undercover was one of the first police dramas that captured the sounds, aesthetics and grooves of a changing urban America. Set in the 1990s, smack dab in the middle of the golden era of hip-hop, the show featured the goings-on of two male New York City police detectives—an African American and a Puerto…
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#MCM: Hustle Man From Martin—His Work Ethic Was Unparalleled
Hustle Man—the character played by Tracy Morgan on Martin—always kept a job. You can talk about how he flip-flopped from gig to gig all you want, but his persistence at keeping the checks coming in and his eagerness to diversify his skill set were pretty impressive. Especially in Detroit. You have to give credit where credit…
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Kevin Hart Tweets Google, Asking It to Remove His Photo From a Search of ‘Bill Cosby’s Net Worth’
It used to be that you would want to be associated with comedic icon Bill Cosby. Especially if you were a black comedian. But nowadays that’s not exactly the case. Kevin Hart sent Google a nice tweet Thursday, pleading for the search engine to remove Hart’s photo from a Google search of “Bill Cosby’s net…
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Twitter Is Drooling Over Beyoncé’s Cousin in the Blue Dress
Beyoncé went to her uncle Skip’s funeral in Texas this past weekend and took a few photos with her Beyince kinfolk—her mother’s side of the family. Yep, Beyoncé is named after her mother’s maiden name, Beyince. She snapped one photo in particular with two women who are reportedly her cousins Kelsi and Kristin, who are…
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Gayle King Shuts Down Rumors That Oprah and Tyler Perry Are Feuding
Gayle King took to Instagram to clear up those rumors that Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry aren’t on good terms because they’re not working well together. A source said that Winfrey has been sending Perry critiques about his three shows on OWN and he isn’t taking the criticism too well. King said no such thing…
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Zoë Kravitz: Black People Can Act; Stop Asking Us to Play the ‘Best Friend’ or a Caricature of Ourselves
Black Americans are thought to be on the fringes of American society, so when they’re auditioning for roles in mainstream films and TV shows, they’re often asked to play the supporting role of the best friend or the sidekick. The roles are rarely substantive or meaty—just peripheral characters that come in and out of white…
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Ashanti Is Grilled With Sexual Questions by Her Stalker, Who’s Representing Himself
R&B singer Ashanti had to sit in court and entertain the shenanigans of a man who has allegedly been stalking her for at least three long, long years, TMZ reports. Devar Hurd is on trial a third time for stalking her (the first trial, in 2014, ended in a mistrial because a juror got sick,…
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Rihanna Reportedly Acquired the Masters to All Her Previous Recordings
Rihanna has reportedly done what most business-minded artists are eager to do at some point in their careers: own the masters of their recordings. Masters are typically owned by the record label to which an artist is signed. But Rihanna apparently made that move recently, acquiring “the masters of all her previous albums,” Vogue reports. During…
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When Life Imitates Art: Shonda Rhimes Says the Elections Are Imitating the Zany Stuff Writers Develop for Scandal
There’s the saying, “You can’t make this stuff up.” Well, apparently you can. Just ask Shonda Rhimes and her team of writers who concoct the storylines for Scandal. In an interview during PaleyFest, Rhimes described how, because the political goings-on in Washington, D.C., serve as a backdrop for Scandal, she and her writers drum up pretty sensational plotlines about…
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