It seems as though the Richard Pryor biopic starring Mike Epps just can’t get started. After years of talk, and finally a production start date, the film has hit another bump in the road—it’s lost its director. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lee Daniels has stepped away from the film because of scheduling conflicts. The…

Minnesota lawmakers are trying to protect Prince from being exploited in their state. On Monday the state’s Legislature introduced the Personal Rights in Names Can Endure Act, or the PRINCE Act, which would limit the commercial outside use of his name and likeness. The bill, which was inspired by Prince’s death and introduced by Republican state…

While Beyoncé was getting in formation at Houston’s NRG Stadium on Saturday night, a local Houston law-enforcement group was in formation to boycott what it called the singer’s “anti-police” imagery. The Coalition of Police and Sheriffs stood a mile away from the concert venue and spoke with KHOU11 about its boycott. “Some of her performances we believe…

Urban legend has it that Janet Jackson may have given birth to a child when she was a teenager and married to James DeBarge. Supposedly that child was raised as her niece by sister Rebbie Jackson. Now that the news is out that Janet Jackson may be pregnant at 50, DeBarge is speaking out about…

Larry Wilmore has no regrets when it comes to using the n-word during last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. In an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that aired on MSNBC on Sunday, the comedian said that it was fitting for President Barack Obama’s last year in office. Wilmore ended his speech with, “Yo,…

Rihanna wants to reward students who believe in hard work. On Monday the singer announced the new Global Scholarship Program, which will assist students from various countries in attaining a college education in the U.S.  Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation will offer scholarships to residents of Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti and Jamaica who are eligible…

Last week Arsenio Hall filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Sinead O’Connor after the singer said that he had supplied Prince with drugs and drugged her in the past. Hall called the claims absurd and called O’Connor a desperate attention seeker with whom he hadn’t had contact in over 25 years. On May 2,…

MAC Cosmetics recently released its new summer collection, called Vibe Tribe, and supposedly it’s an ode to summer-music-festival fashions and colors. But apparently, MAC didn’t realize or just kinda forgot that many people who attend summer music festivals, like Coachella, commonly appropriate Native American culture. And from the look of its advertisement, MAC is doing…

Taking place in Cleveland, The Land is a coming-of-age film executive-produced by Nas and written and directed by newcomer Steven Caple Jr. The film stars The Wire’s Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, Machine Gun Kelly and Sons of Anarchy’s Kim Coates, with newcomer Jorge Lendeborg Jr. The movie follows the turbulent lives of four teens who have…

I’m sure you did a double take at the title of this post. Hell, I did a double take as I was writing it, because I cannot believe the garbage I see on a daily basis on Facebook. When it’s not Bible quotes written in all capital letters or someone stanning for Bernie Sanders or…