Rapper Trina went off on a man after an outing at a club Sunday night in Miami. In a video clip posted on Young Black and Fabulous, Trina can be seen screaming at the man while people tried to hold her back. She then hits the man about three times. “You wrong! You wrong!” Trina screams.…

Virginia McLaurin—the 106-year-old black woman whose meeting with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at the White House last week went viral—had no idea the video was such a sensation on social media.  The Washington Post showed her the video clip on a smartphone, and McLaurin was just beside herself with joy as she…

The Tidal train is moving along quite nicely.  Last night during a surprise Tidal concert in Atlanta, rapper T.I. announced that he had signed a distribution deal with Roc Nation, Jay Z’s record label and artist-management company, XXL reports.  T.I. revealed more business with Jay Z: He signed on to be an artist-owner with Tidal,…

William Balfour, the 27-year-old estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson’s sister, was sentenced in 2012 to three life sentences without parole for the murders of Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Balfour gave his first interview since his sentencing to ABC 7 and insisted that he’s innocent, saying that he had nothing to do with the…

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is doing something that black Americans have been talking about doing for some time, especially recently, in light of the #OscarsSoWhite issue: not paying the mainstream award shows any mind and continuing to support and create our own platforms to honor black artists. According to Page Six, Simmons has created the All…

Never mind the reports saying that off-duty Tampa, Fla., police officers weren’t signing up to work Beyoncé’s concert—allegedly because they were upset about her Super Bowl performance, which some people found to be anti-cop. The Tampa Police Department responded to all of that chatter with the cutest tweet: What?! @TampaPD officers have been in #formation…

Fusion rounded up most of the black people who were contestants on ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to find out what it was like being one of a handful of black people—if not the only black person—in a particular season of the two popular ABC reality shows about finding love. Another black man had a moment…

Steve Harvey wants women to know their worth and that they can train men (whom they deem worthy of training) to treat them like the ladies they are. During a segment of his show that addressed the topic of sexting—engaging in sexual talk over text—Harvey lectured a young lady about her value. It was a…

Rachel Dolezal has named her new baby boy Langston Attickus Dolezal, according to TMZ.  Dolezal apparently put up a photo of her son—her third—on Instagram. Dolezal didn’t reveal the identity, or the ethnicity, of the baby’s father.  It’s not a stretch to presume that Langston might have been named after the African-American poet and writer…

Usually, off-duty police officers sign up to work concerts in droves because the overtime is extra cash in their pockets, but according to Fox 13 News, not one Tampa, Fla., police officer has signed up so far to provide security for Beyoncé’s concert there April 29.  A spokesman for the Tampa Police Department says that…