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Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. During a time when she should have been celebrating the success of Ghostbusters, actress Leslie Jones was fighting off racists on Twitter for most of Monday. Jones was bombarded with tweets comparing her to a gorilla and calling her everything from a n—ger bitch to…

One of the many lowlights of Monday night’s Republican National Convention was the fact that Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, apparently plagiarized Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech. One can only assume, or hope, that the speechwriter was purposely trolling Trump, but then again, the Trump camp has proved not to be the brightest, so…

Lauryn Hill seems to be in tax trouble again. This time with her home state of New Jersey. New Jersey filed a tax lien against the singer June 30, and it says she owes $438,221 in back taxes, according to documents obtained by Bossip. This isn’t Hill’s first tax problem. In 2013 she was sentenced…

Little Ashley Banks is now a married woman. Tatyana Ali and her beau, Vaughn Rasberry, tied the knot Sunday in a small, intimate ceremony. Ali and Vaughn, who met two years ago on eHarmony, are also expecting their first child soon. Ali described the wedding to People as having a Caribbean vibe. “It’s just a little…

Rapper Lil Boosie had a few words following the shooting that left three cops dead in his hometown of Baton Rouge, La. In a video posted to TMZ, the rapper said Alton Sterling’s death played a huge role in the incident that occurred Sunday night. Boosie spoke about how people are angry about police brutality and with cops…

In what is surprising news to many, Tamar Braxton and her husband, Vincent Herbert, may be facing some rocky times—although, in an eight-year marriage, that’s not so unbelievable. Rumors have been swirling that there is trouble in the union because Braxton’s been “cheating on her husband with another high-profile man for a while.” The source reports…

Tatyana Ali, best known as sweet Ashley from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is suing Warner Brothers Telepictures; she says it stole her idea for daytime talk show The Real. Ali claims that she pitched the idea of a daytime talk show with female celebrity hosts in their 20s and 30s in late 2012 but was…

Dondraico Leonta Johnson wasn’t always a dancer, but nowadays you can find him choreographing some of today’s most popular artists. Johnson, a Fort Lawn, S.C., native, started out as an athlete and excelled in football, baseball, and track and field, but by the time he was 17, his dance career was in full swing. Most recently Johnson…

If there is an addition that needs to be made to The Root’s Thursday “Woke White People” article, it would be singer Henry Rollins. In his recent L.A. Weekly column, Rollins spoke about the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. He also ripped into the fact that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was…

Solange Knowles isn’t just talking about it—she’s being about it when it comes to supporting black businesses. The singer recently shared her reasons for deciding to join a black-owned bank. “While I realize this is a very personal decision and thing to share, I’m proud to say I made that step today,” Solange said on Instagram.…