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  • Ala. Dad Creates Hair Workshops for Men With Daughters

    Remember when your dad tried to do your hair and you ended up with lopsided ponytails? Well, one dad in Alabama is trying to help men out, especially single dads, when it comes to hair tutorials and bonding with their daughters. Darious Bland has been a single dad for seven years, and his biggest issue…

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  • The Bachelorette Says She’s Found Her Dream Man

    Although The Bachelorette is just getting started on television, Rachel Lindsay, the show’s first black Bachelorette, says she’s found her dream man, thanks to the show. “I absolutely fell in love! I definitely did; I’m very, very happy,” Lindsay, 32, said in an interview with People magazine. “I can’t wait for you to see how…

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  • Judge Denies Karrueche Tran’s Permanent Restraining Order Against Chris Brown

    Karrueche Tran’s court date didn’t go as planned because she was a no-show in her quest to get a permanent restraining order against Chris Brown. A Los Angeles County judge denied the request after the actress failed to appear in court. But according to Tran’s rep, she was working on location and didn’t realize that…

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  • Watch: Queen Sugar’s 2nd-Season Trailer

    It looks as though the three Bordelon children in OWN’s Queen Sugar have some major drama brewing in season 2. In the new trailer that dropped this week, siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) aren’t on the same page when it comes to cultivating the sugarcane farm, from a…

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  • Bowie State Honors Richard Collins III, Student Killed at University of Md.

    A moment of silence was held during the Class of 2017 commencement ceremony at Bowie State University in Maryland on Tuesday to remember the life of Richard Collins III. During the commencement speech, Mickey L. Burnim, president of the university, spoke about Collins and offered the moment of silence at the 2:14:25 mark in the…

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  • 5 Travel Accessories to Make Flying Less Frustrating

    Over the last few months, airplane travel has been on everyone’s radar. Unfortunately, it’s not because of extremely cheap airfares, but because several airlines and passengers have proved that the friendly skies aren’t that friendly. But what’s a person to do when you can’t just hop in your car and drive to the U.S. Virgin…

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  • Harvard Student Submits Rap Album as Senior Thesis

    Obasi Shaw took his Harvard thesis to another level when he dropped the school’s first rap thesis album with Liminal Minds. The senior English major, who graduates this week, said it took a year to write the album, which draws inspiration from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and today’s current race issues. “Black people in America are…

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  • Watch: Complex Premieres Documentary Before the Hashtag: Sean Bell

    He was only 23 years old, and on the day of his wedding in 2006, Sean Bell was shot and killed by five undercover officers. The shooting took place shortly after a bachelor party in Queens, N.Y. According to the New York City police commissioner at the time, Raymond Kelly, a fight broke out outside…

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  • Update: Tamera Mowry-Housley Denies Saying Women Should Be More Refined if They Want to Get a Man

    Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 10:47 a.m. EDT: Editor’s note: According to Tamera Mowry-Housley, she did an interview with XoNecole (or Cocoa Fab) and was misquoted. We apologize for any confusion. Earlier: Tamera Mowry-Housley, half of the duo from Sister, Sister fame, has some interesting, and some may say archaic, views about dating and marriage.…

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