Amanda Seales is a jane-of-all-trades. From her early start as an actress on My Brother and Me to her most recent stints as a VH1 and MTV correspondent, the actress-turned-singer-turned-comedian is leaving her carbon footprint all over the entertainment industry. Seales’ latest venture mixes comedy with something everyone has experienced: relationships. Seales’ one-woman show, It’s Complicated:…

In the age of social media, discipline has taken on a new form, and it includes going viral. Over the last couple of years, parents have posted videos of children being spanked and of themselves sitting in on their children’s classrooms after reports of them being unruly. Now one father from Louisville, Ky., is getting a lot…

On the heels of his breakthrough performance as James Brown in Get on Up, Chadwick Boseman has been cast as Marvel Studios’ first solo lead of color (not to be confused with Blade, which was co-produced with New Line Cinema). He will take on the role of T’Challa, the head of the fictional African nation…

CNN’s resident bastion of blackness is speaking out in support of recent comments by Charles Barkley about how black people tear each other down when one deems another “not black enough.” Barkley made the comments last week after a report that some Seattle Seahawks players thought Russell Wilson wasn’t black enough. “Unfortunately, as I tell…

Just a week before the start of the season marking his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James and his wife, Savannah, are the proud parents of a baby girl. Zhuri James was born Oct. 22 in Akron, Ohio, and is the couple’s third child. The couple already has two sons: 9-year-old LeBron James Jr. and…

He’s a Grammy-nominated gospel artist, but on Friday, James Fortune was arrested and booked on charges of aggravated assault of a family member, according to MyFoxHouston.com. The name of the family member involved was not revealed, but Fortune was released from the Fort Bend County, Texas, jail on a $20,000 bond. This isn’t Fortune’s first…

As someone who has seen her fair share of biopics recently, I warned myself to keep an open mind when watching Lifetime’s Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B. Considering that I had already written about it ad nauseam, I knew the movie would touch upon the controversial relationship between Aaliyah and R. Kelly, especially since Wendy…

Shonda Rhimes doesn’t seem like the type of person who bites her tongue offline, because she certainly doesn’t do it online when communicating with people on social media. Over the weekend, a viewer tweeted Rhimes a complaint about the gay scenes being shown on Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder. https://twitter.com/Dabdelhakiem/status/523914894119567360 You would…

It’s amazing that more than two months after Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., no arrests have been made and no trial has been set. That hasn’t stopped the protests and outcries of injustice, but there are those on social media who can’t understand why people are still protesting in Ferguson. Typically…

It seems as though Halle Berry is fed up with her ex Gabriel Aubry living off the child support she’s required to pay him. According to TMZ, Berry pays Aubry $16,000 a month for their daughter, Nahla, even though they have joint custody. Berry recently filed court documents asking a judge to reduce the monthly payment…