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…

Only weeks after being admitted to a hospital, boxing legend Muhammad Ali returned to the hospital Thursday night. Ali was hospitalized last month because of a severe urinary tract infection, and now he has been readmitted for follow-up care, according to the Associated Press. Ali’s spokesman Bob Gunnell hopes that the former boxing champ will…

Angela Bassett’s acting career has taken her from roles in which she’s known for setting a cheating husband’s car on fire to playing the fiery musical icon Tina Turner, but this year she has taken on a different type of role: that of director. Bassett is sitting in the director’s seat for Lifetime’s Whitney Houston…

Last week it was announced that seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders in New York City would be able to see the movie Selma for free, thanks to the generosity of Paramount Pictures and 27 African-American business leaders. Because of the popularity of the New York City endeavor, Paramount and the business leaders plan to team up with other cities to…

Sunday night, Common took home the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, Motion Picture, for “Glory,” which appeared on the soundtrack for Selma. During his speech, the Chicago native took the time to pay tribute to the numerous unarmed black men who have been killed by police over the last year. Common, who shared the award…

It looks as though two cast members of VH1’s Sorority Sisters have been suspended from their sorority. April McRae and Joy Hammond are members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and according to Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities, AKA’s official website shows that the women were suspended.…