UniRush, the parent company behind the RushCard, is trying to make amends with its prepaid-card users. Last year, during a transition to a new processing system, millions of users could not access their funds, some for weeks. Customers quickly filed a lawsuit against the card, founded by Russell Simmons. On Thursday, UniRush agreed to pay…

We all know by now that Ayesha Curry has her fair share of fans, as well as people who routinely side-eye her. But that’s definitely not stopping Curry from carving out her cooking-and-lifestyle-aficionado career. Curry recently announced on Instagram that she is planning a pop-up restaurant, and of course, someone took issue with that. Among all…

John Amos isn’t known for biting his tongue, and that has been well-documented, especially when his character James was killed off of Good Times. But now that the Roots remake is airing soon, the actor has voiced his opinion about the History Channel series and how he’s not sure that it’ll be as impactful as the original…

Misty Copeland’s life story is now heading to the big screen. On the heels of her best-selling memoir, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, and the documentary A Ballerina’s Tale, Gregory Allen Howard is now penning the screenplay for the biopic. Howard, who just wrapped up the script for the upcoming Harriet Tubman movie, Harriet, also…

Urban legend has it that Janet Jackson may have given birth to a child when she was a teenager and married to James DeBarge. Supposedly that child was raised as her niece by sister Rebbie Jackson. Now that the news is out that Janet Jackson may be pregnant at 50, DeBarge is speaking out about…

Larry Wilmore has no regrets when it comes to using the n-word during last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. In an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that aired on MSNBC on Sunday, the comedian said that it was fitting for President Barack Obama’s last year in office. Wilmore ended his speech with, “Yo,…

Sinead O’Connor made some serious allegations about Prince and Arsenio Hall on Facebook this week. The singer alleged that Hall was Prince’s drug supplier for many years. And she also said the former talk show host even drugged her.   O’Connor wrote: Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the…

Here’s yet another thing that’s hard to do when you’re black: using Airbnb. Quirtina Crittenden, a 23-year-old black woman from Chicago, created the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack after she noticed how often she was turned down on the rental site.  “The hosts would always come up with excuses like, ‘Oh, someone actually just booked it’ or ‘Oh,…

50 Cent dug deep into his pockets and made a donation to Autism Speaks since coming under fire after he posted a video mocking a teenager. The teenager’s family threatened 50 Cent with a lawsuit if he didn’t apologize or make a donation to the teen’s GoFundMe. The rapper did eventually apologize but also made a donation…

50 Cent’s legal woes are starting to pile up … again. The family of the boy he bullied in a Cincinnati airport say they want the rapper to donate $1 million to a GoFundMe or they’ll file a lawsuit. 50 Cent filmed Andrew Farrell while he was working at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and mocked…