Editor’s note: This post contains social media messages that some may find offensive. Black Twitter cleared its collective throat, let out a few Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-tis and belted out its own renditions of songs sung by today’s biggest mainstream pop stars. The posters flagged their covers using the #TrapCover hashtag, since many of the songs were rapped…

Gladys Knight’s Signature Chicken & Waffles restaurant in Atlanta scored a measly 57 out of 100 possible points during a recent health inspection, according to the Alanta Journal-Constitution. City officials found a cooler with a missing door, “heavy debris” on the ceilings and vents, and violations connected to handwashing, which leads to risks of foodborne…

Ajak Deng’s cup runneth over.  The 26-year-old fashion model has had enough of the fashion industry and is taking her talents back to Australia, the place she immigrated to after fleeing South Sudan in 2005, People magazine reports. In an Instragram message posted Tuesday, Deng said she’s done with modeling.  “I am happy to announce…

The All Def Movie Awards were taped Wednesday night and will air on The Root’s sister network, Fusion on Sunday night—the same night as the Academy Awards. Produced, in part, as an alternative to the Academy Awards because of the #OscarSoWhite controversy, Russell Simmons and his Def team honored black entertainers, most notably, Will Smith, who…

It started off as the little off-Broadway play that could. But now Elipse—the play with an all-female, all-black cast that features Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o—is on Broadway and getting the attention it deserves. The cast appeared on the cover of Uptown magazine looking stunning. Gurira—one of the play’s writers—and actresses Saycon Sengbloh, Pascale Armand,…

Fox Searchlight—the film studio that paid big bucks for indie film Birth of a Nation at the Sundance Film Festival last month—has high hopes for the biopic. The film tells the story of black slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, as played by Nate Parker, who also wrote and directed the film. According to Deadline, Fox…

Kanye West hopped on his most beloved outlet Tuesday—Twitter—to give a producer named Bob Ezrin a piece of his mind. A quick Google search says that Ezrin is a Canadian music producer who has worked with acts like Kiss and Pink Floyd. Apparently Ezrin said that Macklemore was more “musically important” than Kanye, and that…

If Rihanna and Drake’s “Work” video doesn’t have you itching to wine your waist in a hot, sticky, hole-in-the-wall reggae spot this weekend, then you’re in the minority. It had people reminiscing about the last time they let loose and sweated their hair out to some Buju Banton; it also had people speculating about whether…

Another day, and another black public figure endorses either Bernie Sanders’ or Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. On Tuesday, Spike Lee declared his support for Sanders in a radio ad that targeted black South Carolinians. That same day, Clinton visited the set of ABC’s Scandal and took photos with its star Kerry Washington. Washington posted a…

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is trying to wrangle the black vote in South Carolina for the upcoming Democratic primaries Feb. 27. He enlisted the help of director and activist Spike Lee. On Tuesday the Sanders campaign released a radio ad in which Lee announces that he’s officially endorsing his “main man Bernie Sanders,” the New…