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A Pennsylvania judge has ordered Sherri Shepherd to pay $4,100 a month in child support to the child born via a surrogate for Shepherd and her now ex-husband. Shepherd and her ex-husband had found the surrogate together, but before the baby was born, the couple was already in the process of getting a divorce. “I’m…

Thanksgiving is a time of sharing and an opportunity to get together with family over food and drinks. It’s a time when people are reflective and look around at everything for which they’re thankful. But then there’s the other part of Thanksgiving. The part many people dread when it comes to being around their family…

Will Smith is this insightful, poetic guy who always has such profound things to say about life and career and love and marriage. Samuel L. Jackson is also a guy who comes at issues and topics from a unique angle, except he’s far more blunt and doesn’t sugarcoat anything. To my mind, Smith likes to…

Tyler Perry has been in the gym and has the results to prove it.  On Sunday he posted a photo of himself on Facebook, where he’s at the beach, flexing his muscles and a six-pack that looks like it’ll be super evident any day now.  Perry made note of how it’s probably the worst time…

This new hashtag that black Twitter is giving a whirl, #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, has got me thinking about Rachel Dolezal and all of the black-culture litmus tests that people jokingly said they wanted her to take to confirm whether or not she was indeed black. There are so many things that black Americans experience individually—and yet collectively—that thread…

When Cynthia Robinson tooted her own horn, the world stood in awe. And Monday, the world lost one of its greatest trumpet players. Robinson died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, according to a post on her Facebook page.  For nine years, Robinson was considered Sly Stone’s “hype woman,” but she was…

People say that it takes a village when it comes to raising children. And that often comes into play when you’re single and raising them on your own. Jill Scott doesn’t often talk about her son, Jett, but during a recent segment on the Steve Harvey show, the singer opened up about how she’s not exactly…

Killer Mike is equal parts rapper and an activist who has been vocal about the prison system, police brutality and same-sex marriage. The rapper once said it was his responsibility “to be politically active, and I have to be a credit to my race.” During this political season, candidates are vying for attention from black…

Zendaya Coleman has been immortalized in wax by the famous Madame Tussauds museum. The San Francisco location unveiled its wax figures over the weekend, and the resemblance is amazing. The 19-year-old actress-singer posted the images on Instagram, and you can barely tell them apart. Both wax figures are elegantly styled, and with Coleman posing next…

It’s one thing to write about the police killings of unarmed black people, but it’s another thing altogether to “touch the trail,” as we journalists sometimes say—meaning to actually hit the pavement and come into contact with the story, with the people who are personally affected by the tragedies we’ve been protesting with our Black…