Patti LuPone Apologizes After Being Canceled, But Here’s Why Black and White Folks Say it’s Too Late to Save Face
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This is Why Ray J is Going Completely Off on Suge Knight… and it Involves Diddy
Jess Hilarious Responds to Backlash After Being Dragged for Transphobic Comments
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Rihanna Teases a New Website Dedicated to Her Anti Album
Rihanna gave her Navy superfans some juice Thursday. There’s been much confusion about when she’s actually releasing her eighth album, Anti. On Thursday she released a landing page for the project, Complex reports, which tells users to visit the site ANTIdiaRy.com on their mobile phones. There, users are instructed to sign in, although the project…
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Missy Elliott Drops Gems About Her Career, Like How Timbaland Has Never Seen Her Record a Song
Missy Elliott is on a press tour promoting her newest single and video, “WTF (Where They From?),” and she’s revealing a lot of interesting tidbits about her career. For one, even though she took a hiatus as an artist, she’s been in the studio recording and has enough material for at least six albums. “If…
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Viola Davis: After Sexual Assault, My Sister Went From an Intelligent, Creative Child to an Angry Drug Addict
Viola Davis takes her philanthropy and advocacy work very seriously, probably because she grew up dirt-poor and often talks about how important it is to empower people from meager and abusive backgrounds. At a benefit event Tuesday for Stuart House, a program that helps child victims of sexual abuse, she opened up about the change…
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Amanda Seales Wants You to Get Your Life With Her New YouTube Series
Amanda Seales is no stranger to television and media. From child actress to MTV VJ, the multitalented actress, comedian and artist has teamed up with Awkward Black Girl creator Issa Rae and recently released a new scripted comedy on YouTube. Get Your Life follows Seales’ not-so-scripted life as she leaves New York and returns to…
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Derek Jeter Responds to Claims He Left Underwear Company Because of 50 Cent
Derek Jeter isn’t too happy about allegations made by Swedish underwear company Frigo that he referred to 50 Cent as “too urban” and refused to work with them. According to the New York Daily News, Jeter denies saying that 50 Cent was too urban, and says he’s one of the reasons the rapper is working with the…
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Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Gives Mental-Health Advice: ‘Speak Up if You Feel Depressed’
Dwayne Johnson may be made of pure muscle, but even the former wrestler has had bouts of depression during his life. On a recent episode of Oprah’s Master Class, Johnson discusses how he coped with depression. “I found that, with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone,”…
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Anita Baker Chin-Checks Apple Music on Twitter, Argues It Doesn’t Have the License to Stream Her Music
Anita Baker probably felt as if Apple Music was adding insult to injury when it sent this tweet out Wednesday. https://twitter.com/AppleMusic/status/667094902245732352 Yep, the music-streaming service was promoting Baker’s work that it had put in a special “80s” playlist. Baker hopped on Twitter and told Apple Music that it didn’t have a “digital licensing agreement” for…
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Ex-Subway Spokesman Sentenced to 15 Years on Child-Sex Charges
On Thursday, Jared Fogle walked into court expecting to get a plea deal in relation to numerous counts of child-sex and pornography charges. But a federal court judge sentenced him to 15 1/2 years in federal prison after Fogle entered a guilty plea, according to Reuters. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt didn’t show Fogle…
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Lil Eazy-E Says Charlie Sheen’s HIV Diagnosis Is Not the Death Sentence It Was for His Dad
Lil Eazy-E has high hopes for Charlie Sheen regarding his HIV diagnosis. He told TMZ that he doesn’t think Sheen will succumb to the virus that took his father, Eazy-E, the mastermind behind N.W.A. Lil Eazy-E is hopeful for a few reasons. For one, his father contracted the virus when there weren’t as many drugs…
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Derek Jeter Sued After Backing Out of Underwear Endorsement Involving 50 Cent Because Rapper’s Too ‘Urban’
Someone literally has his underwear in a bunch, and now he’s caught the ire of 50 Cent on social media and a lawsuit from a men’s-underwear company. According to the New York Post, Derek Jeter is being sued by underwear brand Frigo because he pulled out of an endorsement deal that also involved 50 Cent.…