Black Twitter Reacts To Eve’s Very Rich And White Christmas Dinner Pics, Diddy Party Attendee Makes Creepy Claim, The Worst Movies Of 2024, The One Person Katt Williams Regrets Joking About And More

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Black Twitter Loses it Over Eve’s Very Rich and White Christmas Dinner Photos, But Y’all Need to Leave Her Alone

Eve and Maximillion Cooper attend the British Vogue x Balmain Beauty Dinner at The Dover on October 17, 2024 in London, England. Image: Getty Images Photo by Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Images for British Vogue & Balmain Beauty

Eve has gone viral, but not for the reason you would expect. The “Let Me Blow Your Mind” rapper’s holiday celebration with her husband has got everyone talking, with photos of her with his family sparking major debate on social media. – Jared Alexander Read More

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A Jogger had no idea What or Who Hit Her… Until Police Showed Her

This Diddy Claim By a White Party Attendee is Creepier Than Most Others

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We just keep finding out more about Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ widely speculated White Parties. Beyond the grandiose display of wealth, one insider says the rap mogul had people on the ground to ensure his sexual desires were satisfied. – Kalyn Womack Read More

The Rock, Kevin Hart, Tyler Perry Delivered Some of Worst Movies of 2024

(L to R) Justice Smith as “Aren”, David Alan Grier as “Roger” and Aisha Hinds as “Gabbard” in writer/director Kobi Libii’s THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES. Photo: Tobin Yelland / Focus Features

This year was full of unforgettable cinema moments, like Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reuniting in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” Denzel Washington in “Gladiator II,” and Cynthia Erivo “Defying Gravity” in “Wicked.” However, there were also plenty of films we’d like to forget. Some of the movies on our worst list are just flat out bad, while others suffered very public multi-million dollar failures. A few of them are classified as both. Before we completely close the book on 2024, we need to look back at some of the worst movies of the year. – Stephanie Holland Read More

WATCH: Katt Williams Confesses That This Is the One Person He Regrets Joking About

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Katt Williams has never been shy about roasting celebrities. His infamous 2024 “Club Shay Shay” interview proved as much as the star went viral for sharing his perspective on certain encounters with other famous people. – Candace McDuffie Read More

This HBCU Band Set To Perform At Trump’s Inauguration, and Black Twitter Isn’t Having It

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President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is set to take place on Jan. 20, 2025—the same day America will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Interestingly enough, a prestigious HBCU marching band is set to perform at the event. – Candace McDuffie Read More

Waka Flocka Flame Battered and Bruised After Being ‘Jumped’ By 10 People, But What Really Happened Was…

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It might be a new year, but this is the same ‘ol Waka Flocka Flame. While the rest of the world was bringing in 2025 in celebration, it seems Waka, real name Juaquin James Malphurs, had a strangely different night. He took to his social media on Jan. 1 claiming he was assaulted by 10 different people. In the now-deleted post, Waka wrote “Can’t believe nobody helped me fight ten nixxas off but I’m still standing ten toes.” – Phenix S Halley Read More

Wait..Was Whitney Houston’s Movie ‘The Bodyguard’ More Truth Than Fiction?? What We Know Now

Whitney Houston, left and Kevin Costner attend “The Bodyguard” Hollywood premiere on November 23, 1992 at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. Photo: Getty Images Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection

Whitney Houston’s former bodyguard — on whom the 1992 cult classic film, “The Bodyguard” was loosely based —is spilling the tea about his time with the late singer and the film…and what he said just might surprise you. – Shanelle Genai Read More

Mobbed in Norway, A Guest on Club Shay Shay, How Is IShowSpeed, 19, One Of the World’s Biggest Streaming Stars?

IShowSpeed attends The Streamer Awards hosted by QTCinderella at The Mayan on December 07, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Image: Getty Images Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for QTCinderella

As the rise of the content creator rages on, one young streaming legend is currently outshining the rest, becoming one of the biggest internet stars ever, so much so that it seems he can’t even walk outside. – Jared Alexander Read More

Tiffany Boone’s Favorite Disney May Shock You… Or Maybe Not So Much

The “Mufasa: The Lion King” actress confesses little known challenges of voice acting before singing her rendition of a Lion King classic.

Ice Spice Apparently Lost a Bunch of Weight, and Social Media Has All the Theories About It

Ice Spice attends the Skims New York store opening party in Midtown on December 12, 2024 in New York City. Photo: Getty Images TheStewartofNY/GC Images

Ice Spice is “in ha mood” and showing off her new look on Instagram — but some fans aren’t too keen on it and they’re speaking out.

The “Deli” rapper has, of late, been styling and profiling on social media. But it isn’t her fashions that have people talking. It’s her seemingly dramatic weight loss which was made apparent in a a myriad of photos she posted. The latest ones which were posted on Monday in honor of her birthday and showed the rapper adorned in a hot pink cropped bomber jacket and a cropped white long-sleeved shirt with her signature ginger hair. – Shanelle Genai Read More

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