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Singer Janelle Monáe is the latest to be cast in the Fox drama Hidden Figures, and she joins Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in the film about three mathematicians who were the brains behind NASA’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962. The film is based on the upcoming book by Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The Story…

India.Arie’s name is one of many that have come up in discussions about who could have played Nina Simone in the upcoming biopic Nina. Many people have already voiced their opinions about Zoe Saldana’s casting and aren’t too pleased with the prosthetics and dark makeup used on Saldana for the role. But Arie’s opinion definitely…

Roy Smith, a janitor at Omaha Burke High School in Nebraska, showed the students and faculty at the school that he can hang with the best of them when it comes to music. Smith recently performed with the high school’s orchestra, and the performance immediately went viral. Wearing a pink suit, Smith belted out Sam Cooke’s…

Before then-President Bill Clinton told the nation that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. [Monica] Lewinsky,” then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Clarence Thomas told a congressional confirmation committee: “I deny every allegation against me today that suggested that I, in any way, ever, harassed Anita Hill.  “From my standpoint, it’s a high-tech…

Jada Pinkett Smith was catching a flight out of Los Angeles when she was asked by paparazzi about Chris Rock’s jokes about her at the Academy Awards. Remember, Rock basically said that Pinkett Smith didn’t have a horse in the #OscarsSoWhite race, since she’s a television actress. “Look, that comes with the territory, sweetheart,” Pinkett Smith…

Most parents who are vying for the “Parent of the Year” award at their kid’s school bake chocolate chip cookies for go-away games, volunteer to be a chaperone on school trips or write a fat check to buy the entire soccer team new jerseys. But not Beyoncé. She steps it up a notch and donates…

March is Women’s History Month, and Ebony magazine is shoring up a specific kind of woman who isn’t celebrated as much: the curvy woman. Women who have been anxiously waiting to wave their Team Thickums ID cards proudly in everyone’s faces. Women who have been dubbed “plus size” by the mainstream. Style blogger Gabi Fresh, R&B…

Malcolm-Jamal Warner made it clear that he’s “in no position to defend” Bill Cosby concerning the dozens and dozens of sexual assault allegations leveled against him by women. But Warner suggested during an interview with The Real that he does think there’s a double standard at play concerning white male celebrities who have endured similar…

Style and fashion icon Kim Kardashian West has done it again! Since giving birth to her son, Saint West, the Anna Wintour of Calabasas, Calif., has been rocking a new hairstyle that no one has ever seen before. Ever. We mean it. On Thursday, West uploaded a photo and a video on just how you…

All you Kendrick Lamar fans are having a very blessed Friday, I’m sure. The Grammy Award-winning rapper dropped a surprise album late Thursday night, seemingly called untitled unmastered—or he could just be saying that the album is both of those things. It’s an eight-track project, and none of the songs have names. Another special thing…