Jay Z is being sued for approximately $18 million by Parlux Fragrances, a perfume company that says the hip-hop mogul reneged on a few promotional efforts for the perfume he released with the company in 2013, TMZ reports. The licensing agreement between Parlux and Jay Z for the fragrance, Gold Jay Z, reportedly mandated that…

NBA forward Blake Griffin likely fractured his hand after reportedly hitting a member of the Los Angeles Clippers’ equipment staff, ESPN reports.   Griffin, who plays for the Clippers, allegedly hit the man during the team’s restaurant stop in Toronto. Griffin and the staff member got into an argument inside the restaurant, where Griffin first struck…

For a while, all we had was this breathtaking photo from Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation film. It’s the biopic about Nat Turner, the early-19th-century slave who rounded up other slaves and led a rebellion against white slave owners, killing some 60 white people in Virginia in 1831. Parker wrote, directed and is…

Shonda Rhimes wants to set one thing straight about this idea that she did something unprecedented by casting diverse actors and actresses in her string of shows. While it may seem out of this world, Rhimes explained that she simply cast “parts for actors who were the best ones” and created “the world as it…

Stacey Dash is feeling the wrath of black America. She keeps arguing that any effort or initiative to celebrate black American achievements—e.g., Black History Month and the BET Awards—is segregation and isn’t moving the ball forward on race relations. Even though family is supposed to present a unified front out in the open, her cousin,…

Cringe at any talk you hear about how Chris Rock ought to quit his hosting gig at this year’s Academy Awards to boycott the upcoming event alongside the other black celebrities who plan to. Because if you know anything about Rock, you know that the first things that’ll come flying out of that man’s mouth…

A young Michelle Obama, then Michelle Robinson, was anxious about her standing as a young African-American female attorney working at a white-shoe law firm in 1989 Chicago. Most particularly, she was concerned about how her higher-ups would perceive it if she started to date another African-American summer associate at the firm. This is what is…