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Kelly Rowland’s rise to fame started in Destiny’s Child, but now she wants to give a new generation a chance at stardom, and BET is going to help make that happen. Rowland’s new series, Chasing Destiny, is set to premiere on BET April 5. The series will follow Rowland on her quest to make the…

In 2008, Jennifer Hudson’s mother, nephew and brother were killed by her brother-in-law, William Balfour, in Chicago. Several months after the murders, Balfour was sentenced to three life terms in prison. With the controversy surrounding Spike Lee’s newest movie, Chi-raq, many questioned why Hudson chose to star in a movie that doesn’t exactly do anything for…

Charles Barkley isn’t known to mince words when it comes to basketball or politics. Sure, occasionally his comments aren’t what people want to hear and have caused a few eyebrows to rise, but that’s the magic of Barkley-isms. And it’s surprising that during Thursday night’s NBA postgame coverage on TNT, the former NBA star was…

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made news this week after stating that black college students don’t do well at more advanced colleges and should attend slower-track schools. The comment was made during Wednesday’s hearing in the affirmative action case Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas. “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African…

Thursday morning marked another milestone in Michelle Obama’s time as the first lady: She rapped. Again. And it was a glorious occasion. Well, glorious for those of us not named Sasha or Malia. Obama dropped a verse on a new song encouraging students to attend college. The video, which featured comedian Jay Pharoah, may have…

Just call her “Flow-tus,” because Michelle Obama has flow and bars. The first lady teamed up with Saturday Night Live’s Jay Pharoah in a new rap song that encourages teens to attend college. In the video, produced by College Humor, Pharoah and Obama rap about the benefits of attending college, minus the student loans, of…

When President Barack Obama’s presidential term comes to an end, the White House will probably end up being a little bland. And you can probably assume that whoever ends up taking his place won’t be blasting Kendrick Lamar in the Oval Office. In a recent interview with People magazine, the president said that his favorite song of…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens hasn’t even premiered yet, but people are already talking about the future of the franchise and the eighth movie in the series. But there’s one thing the franchise hasn’t had yet, and that’s a female director, and The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams has one woman in mind when it comes to his…

Muhammad Ali came out swinging Wednesday in response to Donald Trump’s recent comments about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. The champ also had a few words aimed at “so-called Islamic jihadists” and how they’re not what a true Muslim should be. “I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people…

Have you ever had a decades long friendship with someone and didn’t know he was racist and xenophobic? No? Me neither. But apparently Russell Simmons has. Simmons, on the heels of his RushCard debacle, penned an open letter to his dear “friend” Donald Trump. The letter is in response to Trump’s most recent hate speech…