All The Shocking Testimony from Diddy’s Federal Trial That’ll Make Your Stomach Turn
Taraji P. Henson Finally Addresses Those Rumors of Drama With Oprah During ‘The Color Purple’
Spoilers! Now That Sinners is Streaming, Here’s Symbolism You Probably Missed
Marvel’s New Black Panther Is …White, Explained
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Ciara Has 'Leveled Up' With New Song and Music Video
Ciara finally is coming back with new music, after years of leaving us stranded. I can’t believe that Ciara hasn’t had new music since 2015, with the release of her album Jackie, which we didn’t ask for. But now, as an attempt to revive her career, before she gets lost in our memories, she just…
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Destiny's Child Singer Michelle Williams Checks Into Mental Health Facility to Fight Depression
Michelle Williams, the songstress who vaulted into notoriety along with some woman named Beyoncè (I wonder whatever happened to her?), has voluntarily checked herself into a California mental health facility a few days ago. TMZ reports that Williams is being treated at a facility near Los Angeles, Calif., continuing her ongoing fight against depression. The…
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The Hate U Give Aims to Create Empathy While Offering a Portrait of Why Black Lives Matter
The Hate U Give is a New York Times best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas that chronicles the life of Starr Carter, a 16-year-old who is from a poor, black neighborhood, but attends a fancy private school in the ‘burbs. One sad, fateful night, Starr’s best friend Khalil is shot and killed by a…
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T.I. Hit With Simple Assault Charge After Incident Where He Misplaced Keys Outside His Gated Community
T.I. just can’t seem to catch a break. Prosecutors in Henry County, Ga., have charged the rapper with three misdemeanors following an incident in early May where T.I. misplaced his keys outside his gated community. A verbal dispute with the security guard who was allegedly less than cooperative in helping T.I. has now resulted in simple…
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The MTV VMA Nominations Are In! Cardi B and the Carters Lead the Nominees
The MTV Video Music Awards, like others, are highly anticipated each year. We keep a special close eye out to see how our fave black artists are represented during these award shows and thankfully, we weren’t disappointed this year. Cardi B has the most nominations for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, with 10 nods.…
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A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown of the Destiny's Child Episode of MTV Cribs in 2000
0:01: The camera pans down a spiral staircase as we’re greeted with a bubbly and aggressively southern voice that we soon learn belongs to Beyoncé Knowles, the lead singer of Destiny’s Child. And if we weren’t quite sure that she’s the leader, her entire stomach is out. Only leaders are allowed to have their entire…
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There Is Only 1 Thing that Can Make a Beyoncé Concert Better: Michelle Obama
What a time to be in Paris. As even the most sports-averse among us might have found out by now, the city was a whole lit-uation on Sunday as France saw their national soccer team, Les Bleus, take home the World Cup for the second time in 20 years. But that wasn’t the only blessing…
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Photo Surfaces of Rapper DMX as He Does His 1-Year Bid in Jail
In one of hip-hop’s many tragedies (and there have been plenty), rapper DMX, arguably one of the best who ever did it, has deteriorated personally and professionally after some well-known bouts with drugs. Earlier this year, X (real name Earl Simmons) was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to one count of…
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Wait, Were Rihanna and Her Billionaire Boyfriend Arguing about the World Cup?
That’s what Rihanna would have you believe. On Tuesday, photos of Rihanna caught in a heated discussion with rumored on-again, off-again boyfriend, Saudi billionaire Hassan Jameel, flooded the internet with speculation and rumors. Were they on again? Was there trouble in paradise (in this case, Mexico)? Was Rihanna wearing Fenty Body Lava in the middle…
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Set It Off Has One of the Blackest Scenes in All of Cinema That Nobody Ever Talks About
Set It Off is a movie I love watching. It’s such a nonsensical movie for so many reasons that it all blends perfectly, if you let the liquor tell it. It’s one of the greatest mediocre movies in the African-American Cinematic Theater canon. Once you add in the soundtrack, it really is iconic for so…