It’s the concert that never happened over the weekend in North Carolina. And that probably has a lot to do with the name and promotional material for the show. Fantasia, Anthony Hamilton, John P. Kee and Dennis Reed had been slated to perform at an “All Lives Matter” concert Sunday, but the concert was postponed.…

Gilbert Arenas is celebrating a legal victory against his ex, Laura Govan. Govan was ordered to pay Arenas $110,000 after spreading rumors via email to a gossip blog that Arenas had sexually transmitted diseases. In court documents, Arenas cited emotional distress and stated that he wasn’t able to work on his new app once the rumors began.…

Veteran actor Bill Nunn has died at the age of 62. Nunn, who will always be best-known for his iconic role as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, died Saturday in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Lee, who attended Morehouse College with Nunn, confirmed his friend’s death via Instagram: Nunn also appeared in Lee’s School Daze, Mo’…

I remember the first time a black man told me that he didn’t date black women like it was yesterday. It was my freshman year of college, and he was part of a group of black students protesting racist remarks made by the university’s president. This guy in particular was the epitome of a fist-raised,…

On Wednesday night’s Empire season 3 premiere, viewers immediately got to see who survived the fight between Anika (Grace Byers) and Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday). Poor Rhonda met her fate and died. And keeping that information to myself for weeks was hard. Weeks before the season premiere, Byers discussed her role on Empire and why Anika…

After receiving a ton of complaints about its Moana Halloween costume, Disney has pulled the costume and will no longer sell it. Many people felt the costume, and other products, were basically a form of “brownface” and depicted Polynesian stereotypes. Items that were removed include the Halloween costume and a pajama set for kids, both styled after demigod Maui,…

It never fails. Not a day goes by when I don’t see a tweet that makes me shake my head. And I’ve decided to chronicle the ridiculous to the informative on Tweet of the Day. And for the first tweet, we have someone who doesn’t think slavery was that bad. https://twitter.com/anorIondo/status/778607615706329088 Thankfully, someone had the…

Actor Isaiah Washington has one simple solution to fight police brutality. And it involves hitting the country where it hurts the most: its pockets. “If every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted, would pick ONE DAY to simply ‘stay at home’ from every…

Disney’s first animated film with a Polynesian character is set to hit theaters later this year, but one part of Moana’s merchandising has some people offended. Moana, which stars Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson as the demigod Maui, has a questionable Halloween costume. The costume features tribal tattoos, brown skin and fake muscles, and there’s also…