When Kanye West revealed that he was in debt to the tune of $53 million, people probably wondered why he didn’t just ask his extremely rich wife for a small business loan. Although the “debt” was a bit of an exaggeration, one fan decided to help a brother out. Jeremy Piatt of Minnesota has set up…

Joseph Fiennes, the white British actor set to play Michael Jackson in a new movie, is still defending his role in the upcoming British comedy about a fictional road trip Jackson takes during 9/11 with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. “I think outrage is good, as long as it doesn’t get into a violent shouting match,”…

Good Times provided many people with something that was missing from television in the ’70s, but when the show ended its run, it didn’t quite give fans closure. And that’s something the original cast (minus Esther Rolle, who has since died) wants to provide. BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ralph Carter and Ja’Net DuBois…

Nathan “Bodie” Barksdale lived the life that people spent hours in front of the television watching when HBO’s The Wire was on the air. The show, which ended its run in 2008, is still considered some of the best television ever made, even in its gritty depiction of drugs, gangs and the seedy side of…

In 2013 the NFL settled a lawsuit with former football players in regards to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, otherwise known as CTE. CTE is a progressive degenerative disease that afflicts the brains of people who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Most recently it’s been the subject of discussion about football players. But there’s…

Manny Pacquiao is trying his hands at politics during a run for a Senate seat as a conservative in the Philippines. Pacquiao, who has made homophobic comments in the past, doubled down on them during a recent interview. “Have you seen any animal having male-to-male or female-to-female relations?” Pacquiao asked in a video released on a Philippines…

Devon Franklin and wife Meagan Good spent their Valentine’s Day at One Church in Los Angeles to promote their book The Wait, and to discuss how they coped with celibacy while dating.  But what Franklin wasn’t going to deal with during the question-and-answer portion of the service was anyone criticizing his wife because of her…

On Monday the New Yorker unveiled its cover for the Feb. 22 issue, which goes on sale Tuesday. The issue celebrates the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and Black History Month. The cover story follows the history of the center, which is the research branch of the New York Public Library.…

During Beyoncé’s much-talked-about Super Bowl perfomance, the Houston singer evoked images of the Black Panthers. But how much does the public know about the group that revolutionized revolution? On Tuesday night, PBS will air Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, about the group that was founded 50 years ago by Huey P. Newton…

There’s nothing like becoming hands-on when it comes to your work. WTKR’s Laila Muhammad was just having fun while reporting on how viral sensations are made when she became one herself. Muhammad had set out to explain how people go viral and can earn money off their viral videos. To show how easy it was…