Actress Tatyana Ali has announced her engagement to Vaughn Rasberry and the upcoming birth of their child. “Planning our wedding has been so exciting, but when we found out we were expecting, our perspective shifted completely,” she told Entertainment Tonight. Ali and Rasberry plan to get married this summer, and they’re wrapping up the details for the…

What better way to pay tribute to one of the greatest singers ever than gathering some of Broadway’s top stars to sing her songs? Other performers at the show, according to Playbill, will include Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple and Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black), Jason Gotay (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Carly Hughes (Chicago), Amber Iman (Shuffle Along), Marcus Paul…

Did the National Museum of African American History and Culture buckle under pressure after several of Bill Cosby’s accusers expressed their displeasure at finding out that items celebrating Cosby’s career would be on display at the new museum? Possibly, because now, although the items will still be on display, the museum says that it’ll show…

Wednesday night’s episode of the popular WGN America series Underground, titled, “Firefly,” was not only breathtaking visually—as usual—but also introduced a special guest related to one of the characters in real life. At the end of the last episode, we left off with Noah (Aldis Hodge) and Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) escaping from the plantation after Rosalee was attacked by…

D’Angelo Russell is now apologizing for secretly recording his teammate Nick Young. The two Lakers players have been caught up in a bit of drama since a video surfaced that shows Young talking about cheating on his fiancee, Iggy Azalea. The video, taped by Russell, immediately went viral and had people questioning his “man code.”…

Actor Hampton Fluker is bound to become a household name. The Atlanta native already has credits from roles in such shows and films as The Good Wife, Aquarius, the Whitney Houston biopic and The Blind Side. But his recent role on the hit NBC series Shades of Blue has put an even bigger spotlight on his acting. Fluker plays Marcus…

The goal of the Free Hugs Project is quite simple: Participants want to make America love again. Which is a complete spin on GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign slogan and, apparently, the sentiments of people who attend his rallies. The project recently attended rallies for Trump as well as for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders…

Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. Russell Schiller is a Howard University student who happens to be white. And he’s also quite fond of black women, so much so that he created #BlackWomenAreGorgeous to pay homage to them. But after a little digging around Schiller’s old tweets, some people found them problematic. It…

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade have a passion that most people probably don’t know about. On their new series, tentatively titled The Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade Project, the couple team up with the HGTV network to document them flipping homes. “Follow along as they renovate, revitalize and resell a home in a suburban Florida…

Whoopi Goldberg is getting into the marijuana business. The award-winning actress has partnered with Maya Elisabeth, a marijuana entrepreneur, to launch a line of products that help treat menstrual symptoms in women.  The company, which is named Maya & Whoopi, is slated to have a line of edibles, tinctures, topical rubs and a THC-infused bath soak.…