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BET Picks Up 3 Series From Black&Sexy TV—the Content Provider Commonly Referred to as the ‘Black Netflix’
BET is partnering with Black&Sexy TV—an online content provider commonly referred to as the “Black Netflix”—to begin airing three of its Web series on the cable network, Variety reports. This is a big win for boutique and independent content providers on the Web. Companies like Black&Sexy TV cater to viewers who are willing to pay a…
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Ice Cube Ended Concert With Son After a Fight Broke Out in the Crowd
In interview after interview promoting his Straight Outta Compton film, rapper, actor and producer Ice Cube has been adamant about what the true essence of hip-hop is: It is an art form that describes the times we live in—good and bad. It’s not an outlet that promotes or glorifies violence. He demonstrated that Saturday night…
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President Obama’s Advice to Malia About Going to College Is Something All Students Should Hear
Seems like it was just yesterday that Malia Obama was the precocious, wide-eyed eldest child of Barack and Michelle Obama, standing onstage with them in Chicago’s Grant Park in 2008 and waving to the crowd gleefully because her father had just been elected the first African-American president of the United States. Now she’s college-bound. She’s…
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Entertainment Site Asks if Taylor Swift Is the Next Michael Jackson; Twitter Laughs
Now, the girl has accomplished a lot since she came onto the music scene. No one could ever take that away from Taylor Swift. But for Pop Matters to go on and write an 1,100-word piece arguing that one could compare Taylor to the late, great Michael Jackson is just downright wrong. Hell, Taylor would…
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Whitney Houston’s Estate Says Singer’s Hologram Will Go on Tour
A Whitney Houston hologram concert may be coming to a city near you. According to Billboard, her estate, managed by her sister-in-law Pat Houston, announced Friday that a hologram of Houston will perform at a major U.S. concert venue in 2016. The hologram concert will likely embark on a world tour thereafter, a press release…
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Bobby Brown: Whitney Houston ‘Had a Part’ in God Calling Bobbi Kristina Home
It’s safe to say that the Houston-Brown family, if nothing else, was a spiritual one. Bobby Brown demonstrated that during an interview with The Real that airs in its entirety on Monday. He said that he’s coping with the loss of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown by taking solace in the idea that her mother,…
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Support for TV Mistresses? Experts Suggest Millennials Place Too Much Emphasis on Love and Not Obligation
In Scandal, U.S. President Grant Fitzgerald, played by Sam Goldwyn, is having an affair with Kerry Washington’s character, Olivia Pope. In the Starz drama Power, Jamie St. Patrick, a club owner and reluctant drug dealer played by Omari Hardwick, is having an affair with his high school sweetheart Angela Valdez, played by Lela Loren. Both men…
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5 Promising Careers to Consider if You Can’t Stand Your Job and Are in the Throes of a Quarter-Life Crisis
You’re opinionated and spoke well as a child, so you figured you’d become a lawyer. But maybe you weren’t interested in either cliché, and loved the glitzy side of corporate America. You envisioned yourself in a three-piece suit or a pencil skirt, at the head of a boardroom, defending a strategy to increase your company’s…
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Watch: New Trailers for Scandal and HTGAWM Reveal Divorces and Murders in Upcoming Seasons
The trailers for the upcoming seasons of Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder are here, and ShondaLand doesn’t disappoint. The Scandal trailer for season 5 opens with Olivia Pope and President Grant Fitzgerald tossing and turning in the sheets, with Etta James’ “At Last” playing in the background. At last, the trailer suggests,…
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Vivica Fox Cast as Cookie Lyon’s Sister in the Upcoming Season of Empire
It’s not far-fetched to assume that Cookie Lyon probably grew up in an eccentric household. That’s why it’s exciting news that we’ll get to see a new family member this upcoming season who likely influenced the kind of woman she grew up to be. According to EW, Cookie (played by Taraji P. Henson) will be joined…
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