Last week the Church of God in Christ held its 107th Holy Convocation convention in St. Louis, and estimates have it that 28,000 people gathered this year. And if statistics are something being talked about, some of those people are probably gay. But if COGIC Superintendent Earl Carter had his way, they’re now formerly gay because…

Apparently the judge in Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ lawsuit against Marvin Gaye’s family isn’t seeing any blurred lines when it comes to the law. U.S. District Judge John Kronstadt denied Williams and Thicke’s motion for summary judgment in the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit.  Since last year, Gaye’s family has asserted that the song was a…

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…