Denzel Washington is putting on his producer hat and has inked a deal with HBO to bring a set of 10 plays by playwright August Wilson—collectively known as the Pittsburgh Cycle or Century Cycle—to television. Washington said so during a live stream with Todd Boyd from the University of Southern California Thursday night, Shadow and Act…

An “Aaliyah” perfume is being released. This is huge because it’s one of a handful of projects that the Aaliyah estate—spearheaded by her mother, Diane Haughton, and her brother, Rashad Haughton—has participated in and OK’d.  The perfume is being released by the fragrance company Xyrena. A description of the project on the company’s website says…

Well, who knew that T.I. was also critical of how Iggy Azalea handled the “cultural appropriation” firestorm that she’s been at the center of for the past several months? Social media reactions to Iggy’s music and success—from celebrities like Azealia Banks and Q-Tip, too—have converged on the idea that Iggy is blackfacing her way through…

Jimmy McMillan, the former gubernatorial candidate from New York, went viral years ago after he created and ran on the Rent Is Too Damn High party, and now one NBA rookie is proving that fact. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, NBA rookie Rondae Hollis-Jefferson—who will make $1.33 million this upcoming season as a…

Fetty Wap is probably one of the more recognizable newcomers to the hip-hop scene, since he has an eye deformity that he doesn’t hide. According to MTV News, Fetty lost his eye to congenital glaucoma when he was a kid.   He doesn’t wear a prosthetic eye to cover it up, and that inspired Jayden…

It’s not often that someone says she completely understands why she was called an Uncle Tom and a coon. People usually try to flip the script and suggest that African Americans—the ones usually lobbing those insults—are playing the race card and being hypersensitive about issues. Comedian Sheryl Underwood did no such thing on Monday’s episode of…

Dr. Jan Adams was the doctor who performed a liposuction, tummy tuck and breast reduction on Donda West, Kanye West’s mother, the day before she died. Even though a medical case against him was dismissed, he’s coming forward once again to clear his name of any suggestion that his medical negligence caused Donda West’s death,…

Wendy Williams sure can dish it out, but in her defense, she’s always been open about her own skeletons: her addiction to crack cocaine back in the ’90s, her ongoing battle with weight loss, her two miscarriages and her husband’s infidelities. That kind of transparency and honesty didn’t stop Monday during the season 7 debut…

Toni Braxton felt guilty for being the only one of her four sisters to be given a recording contract to become a solo artist. She went bankrupt—twice—and was diagnosed with lupus, her son was diagnosed with autism, and she got a divorce and had a hard time resuscitating her career after her ’90s heyday. We’ll…