Editor’s note: This post contains a tweet that some may find offensive. A former New York politician is learning a hard lesson when it comes to talking sideways about Beyoncé. Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, appeared on CNN Monday evening and attempted to rationalize Donald Trump’s comments on a 2005 videotape…

Earlier this year, Ronald Savage gave accounts of the sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of the “founder” of hip-hop, Afrika Bambaataa. Savage alleged that the abuse started when he was 15 years old and said that he didn’t go to the police because he felt embarrassed and ashamed. “It [f—ked] me…

Over the last week, much has been said about Donald Trump’s p—sygate and the leaked tapes of him talking about how he sexually assaults women. It was then that many of his GOP comrades disavowed him, and they have been distancing themselves from his toxicity. Who knew it would only take the talk of p—sy—well,…

The second season of Fox’s Rosewood is already underway and Rosewood (Morris Chestnut) and Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz) are putting their skills to use in order to find out who killed her husband, Eddie. Along the way, the duo will take on cases involving college fraternities, plastic surgery, treasure hunting and Santeria. During the fourth episode, “Boatopsy…

Nate Parker’s much-talked about film, Birth of a Nation, was a box office flop. The historically inaccurate biopic about Nat Turner failed to bring in the big numbers that Fox Searchlight was expecting after the company paid $17,000,000 to distribute the film. The movie, which opened over the weekend, only took in an estimated $7.1 million and…

Just weeks after a federal appeals court sided with an Alabama company and gave it permission to discriminate against hiring someone because of their dreadlocks, one company in Illinois is actually changing its policy in order to allow dreadlocks on the job. And it’s all because of one teenager and her fight against hair discrimination. Sixteen-year-old…

Visitors to Prince’s Paisley Park studio estate in Chanhassen, Minn., probably didn’t expect to see an urn filled with the singer’s ashes when the estate officially opened up as a museum Thursday. But that’s exactly what they saw. According to Billboard, Prince’s remains are being stored in a custom-made urn designed by his sister and nephew and…

Billy Bush has been suspended from the Today show pending further review after a 2005 tape of him and Donald Trump sparked backlash. NBC’s senior vice president, Noah Oppenheim, wrote in a memo: “I know we’ve all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours. Let me be clear—there is simply no excuse for Billy’s…

Solange pulled up her chair and is now sitting at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. Just a week after being released, A Seat at the Table gave Solange her first Billboard 200 hit. According to Billboard, Solange’s album moved 72,000 copies in the first week of release, with 46,000 of them from traditional album sales, which catapulted…