Ethan Ambrose, a graduating senior and salutatorian at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, received a surprise of a lifetime during a recent assembly. Ethan was accepted to Harvard, but he had no idea that he would be receiving a full ride to the prestigious university until he was told in front of his classmates.…

Zoe Saldana’s much-talked-about Nina Simone biopic, Nina, is slated to be released Friday, and the film’s director is speaking out again about the controversial casting of Saldana as Simone. In an interview with BuzzFeed, Cynthia Mort attempted to explain what went wrong with the film. Mort said that Saldana’s casting was a “creative move,” but also…

All it took was for one man to come forward and speak about alleged sexual abuse by Afrika Bambaataa. When Ronald Savage told his horrid story of the numerous times he says the hip-hop pioneer sexually abused him when he was a teenager, he got the world’s attention. And now, in an interview with the New…

When was the last time you saw a first lady on the cover of Seventeen magazine? Probably never. Michelle Obama covers the May issue of the magazine, along with two lucky teenagers who won the chance to interview her. In the interview, Gemma Busoni and Zaniya Lewis asked FLOTUS about the advice she gave her own…

August Wilson’s Fences, the story about a fallen baseball player-turned-garbageman, has been a labor of love for Denzel Washington for quite some time, and it’s finally coming to the big screen. Paramount Pictures announced Thursday that Washington will direct and star in the movie version of the hit Broadway play; Viola Davis will co-star. In 2010,…

In this age of technology and social media, finding a date is literally at your fingertips. But it’ll be a lot easier for you if those fingertips are white. Sexual racism is something tons of people have to deal with when it comes to dating apps. Whether you’re using Tinder, OkCupid, Match.com, Bumble, Grindr or…

Last week, Ronald “Bee Stinger” Savage came forward with his story of sexual assault at the hands of rap pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Savage, 50, alleged that the rapper had molested him several times, starting when Savage was 15 years old. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Savage said he was speaking out in order…

Outside of getting dragged for her irresponsible respectability politics, Erykah Badu paid a surprise visit to Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, N.J. No, she wasn’t there to check the length of skirts but to participate in Shabazz’s Future Project, which believes “young people everywhere should have [the] opportunity to discover their potential and…

It’s lawsuit ping-pong. First Ciara filed a $15 million defamation lawsuit against Future. Now Future has filed a countersuit against Ciara. The only people guaranteed to make money are the attorneys. According to TMZ, Future alleges that Ciara’s last album was a flop, which means that she doesn’t have enough star power for him to…

Just last week, Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo presented Debbie Allen with the Trailblazer Icon Award at the 2016 TV Land Icon Awards. From choreography to directing, Allen has pretty much done it all. And don’t think just because Allen is in her 60s that she’s not putting in work on the dance floor. Need proof? Just watch…