Halle Berry wants to help women feel sexy at affordable prices. During a recent trip to Paris, the 48-year-old actress came across a high-end lingerie line called Scandale Paris and wanted to create a similar line, but one that was easy on the wallet. So Berry took matters into her own hands and has now…

Spike Lee’s new film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, opens in theaters nationwide and on demand Feb. 13, and he’s had people talking about it way before it was made. Lee’s latest, which he describes as “a new kind of love story about human beings who are addicted to blood,” was funded by donations made through Kickstarter. Da…

During Sunday night’s Grammy Awards ceremony, there was a bit of controversy surrounding the fact that Beyoncé was chosen to perform “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” instead of Ledisi, who portrayed Mahalia Jackson and performed the song in the Selma biopic. Many Ledisi fans felt that not having the soul singer perform on the Grammys…

In 2012 Stephanie Pitter, a former teaching assistant, school governor and mother of four from the United Kingdom, started a campaign for a mandatory black-history curriculum in primary education in the U.K. A website dedicated to the campaign, along with a petition that has already received more than 40,000 signatures, recently caught the attention of Selma’s…

Everyone watching the Grammys was in shock and awe when Prince presented Beck with the Album of the Year award, especially since he was in the same category as Beyoncé. Everyone also thought Kanye West was joking when he ran onstage, then immediately went back to his seat with a smile on his face—pretty much…

Year after year the Grammys prove that it doesn’t matter how talented you are when it comes to music. And every year, there’s always that one person who perfectly captures what the world is thinking when you’re sitting at home asking yourself, “How did Beyoncé just lose to Beck?” and “How long is this show?…

It’s a conversation I’ve had several times with my 15-year-old son. It’s a conversation I wish I’d never had to have with my 15-year-old son. But after the deaths of so many unarmed black men, it’s now a prerequisite every time he leaves the house. Giving tips on how to interact with the police is…

In 2013 Bobbi Kristina Brown shocked the world when she announced that she was marrying Nick Gordon, the man her mother, Whitney Houston, had raised as her own son. Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother Cissy Houston and father, Bobby Brown, didn’t approve of the marriage, but Bobbi Kristina didn’t seem to care about the disapprovals. Now, just…

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was the talk of Twitter Tuesday night because of a painted portrait. The painting was tweeted by Louisiana blogger Lamar White Jr., who stated that it was the governor’s new official portrait. Immediately, the painting gained attention on social media because of the obvious difference in skin color: This is Bobby…

Don Lemon has been making a reputation for himself recently, and it’s not a good one. Some have referred to him as the worst journalist of all time. Others just publicly laugh at him on social media for tweeting things like this: https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/562407220617674752 In a world of anti-vaccination rhetoric and people sending their outbreak-monkey children…