• Jamie Foxx Impersonates John Legend and Jennifer Hudson on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    Is there anyone Jamie Foxx can’t impersonate? Probably not, and he proved that Tuesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During Fallon’s “Wheel of Musical Impressions,” Foxx performed the Toys R Us song as John Legend and left the audience in tears. It’s hard to pick which impersonation—from Foxx’s take on Mick Jagger…

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  • You Don’t Need to Be Smarter Than a 3rd-Grader to Understand Lyrics by Beyoncé, Chris Brown or Kanye West

    A recent study shows that some of your favorite artists are doling out lyrics that aren’t even on a third-grade reading level. According to SeatSmart, the reading level required to understand music coming from today’s Billboard hit-makers has declined since 2005. Andrew Powell-Morse, who conducted the study, used 225 songs that spent at least three…

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  • Michelle Obama Just One-Upped the President’s Workout—and Probably Yours  

    Ever since President Barack Obama joined Twitter, he’s received tons of tweets from admirers, like Bill Clinton, and haters, like the racists of America, and now he can add first lady Michelle Obama to the list of those who have tweeted him. Late Tuesday night, the FLOTUS posted what seems to be a workout challenge…

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  • Kanye West Says He Was ‘Grossly Over-Censored’ at Billboard Awards  

    During Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, Kanye West closed out the show with pyrotechnics and a performance of  “All Day” from his upcoming album, Swish, as well as “Black Skinhead” from Yeezus. But if you were at home watching the show live on television, you were probably bombarded with a lot of censorship because of his…

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  • ‘N–ga House’ Search Takes You to the White House on Google Maps  

    Google Maps has been vandalized, and its recent victim is the White House. The service, which relies on its users to make sure listings are accurate, is now in the spotlight after a user discovered that searching for “n—ga house” will have the map point you to the White House. The Current World We Live…

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  • Diddy on #BlackLivesMatter: Black People ‘Are Committing Genocide on Ourselves’

    On Monday, Sean “Diddy” Combs took a break from slinging Ciroc and Cassie to the masses to comment on the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The hip-hop mogul took to his Instagram account to seemingly complain about the movement and posted rhetoric similar to that of conservative voices. “For the last couple of months we have experienced a…

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  • Dear Cosmopolitan: This Is Not Lupita Nyong’o

    Updated Tuesday, May 19, 3:22 p.m. EDT: According to an email from Cosmopolitan, the photo was sourced from a photo agency that misidentified Lupita Nyong’o. It has since removed the photo. Earlier: Someone, please get the people behind Cosmopolitan’s Twitter account a pair of eyeglasses, because apparently they can’t tell Lupita Nyong’o apart from other…

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  • Cicely Tyson May Be 90, but She Says Her Life’s Work Isn’t Done Yet

    On Tuesday, Cicely Tyson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alliance for Women in Media at its 40th annual Gracies Awards, but even at the age of 90, the actress says she’s not done. “I actually feel like I have not really achieved that much,” Tyson told the Associated Press. “So I look…

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  • President Obama Officially Joins Twitter

    It only took six years, but President Barack Obama has an official presidential Twitter account. On Monday the president sent out his first tweet, reassuring people that it is indeed him: Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account. — President Obama (@POTUS44) May 18, 2015 Within minutes…

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  • Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Widow, Producing Film About Emmett Till and His Mother  

    Film producer Chaz Ebert, who is the widow of film critic Roger Ebert, is working on bringing to life a feature film about Emmett Till and his mother. According to Deadline, the film will adapt the 2004 Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, which is an autobiography…

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