Larry Wilmore’s newly launched talk show, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, is already making headlines, and it’s only been a week. Wilmore, who never bites his tongue, took on the controversial topic of Bill Cosby and the looming allegations of sexual assault and drugging. “We’ll ask the question, did he do it?” Wilmore said from…

Right before 2014 ended, soul singer D’Angelo dropped a surprise on everyone when he released his album Messiah. Fourteen years had passed since the Virginia native released an album, so when a new one finally arrived, sighs of relief could be heard when people realized it was a masterpiece. What has also been a long…

A Georgia teen has gone viral after trying to pull off a dance that only seemed fitting for a professional stunt artist. Cellphone video shows the teen, who has been identified as 18-year-old Brittany Symone, squatting and doing the whip dance while standing on the passenger seat of a car with the door wide open…

It’s all fun and games until your ratchetness gets you expelled from the sorority you fought so hard to be in. Such is the case for five cast members of VH1’s newly canceled reality-TV show Sorority Sisters. On the heels of the show’s cancellation because of the combined efforts of members of the Divine Nine and others…

The Seattle Seahawks must have been feeling themselves after coming off their big win Sunday night—so much so that they thought they’d celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a memorable tweet. The football team chose to show MLK some love by tweeting a photo of Russell Wilson crying, and attaching an MLK quote to it.…

Nowadays, everybody and his mama have been using Kickstarter to fund their next big idea. Not only is it the average Joe hocking his wares on Kickstarter, but plenty of celebrities have re-emerged thanks to the generosity of strangers. Kickstarter has become the Internet’s version of panhandling. Many Kickstarters have been successful, but so many…

Bill Cosby hasn’t lost all his fans amid the recent allegations of sexual assault and drugging by more than 20 women. Many of his fans are either reading this site or attended his most recent show in Turlock, Calif. According to the Modesto Bee, only one protester was outside the Turlock Community Center, and when…

Over the weekend, the much-anticipated Whitney Houston biopic aired on the Lifetime network. Whitney, which chronicled the romance between Houston and her then-husband, Bobby Brown, was directed by Angela Bassett and placed her in the director’s seat for the first time. Although the show received its fair share of kudos as well as complaints as…

Tonight, Oprah Winfrey’s OWN channel will air the second of Bill Duke’s documentaries on colorism. As a follow-up to Dark Girls, Light Girls takes a look at colorism from the perspective of light-skinned women. One celebrity sharing her story about how colorism affected her life is the estranged wife of Wiz Khalifa, model Amber Rose.…

If Bill Cosby ever planned on bringing another sitcom to television, he can cross NBC off as a potential network. According to the Associated Press, during a question-and-answer session at the Television Critics Association annual conference, NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt was asked if it was true that Cosby would never have another opportunity on…