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On the heels of Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez filing for divorce, Berry’s first husband, former baseball player David Justice, has used Twitter to clear his name from longtime allegations of abuse. Justice and Berry married in 1992 but divorced in 1997. During their divorce, rumors surfaced that Justice had cheated on Berry and was…

Tiger Woods’ former golfing buddy and caddy Steve Williams is spilling the beans in a new memoir about his relationship with the golf icon, and a lot of it isn’t pretty.  In Williams’ Out of the Rough, he said that he was kept in the dark when Woods’ extramarital affair blew up. In excerpts posted on…

The plan was that TLC were going to use the money raised from a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new album that they promised to release in October of this year. Well, October has come and gone. No new TLC album. Meanwhile, their Kickstarter campaign has raised over $400,000, greatly surpassing their initial goal of…

Quentin Tarantino got himself into a lot of trouble recently when he referred to some deaths at the hands of police officers as “murder” at a rally denouncing police brutality. So much so that police unions across the nation have vowed to boycott his films. Well, he’s got a supporter in one of his former…

Last week a petition was launched on Change.org to have Raven-Symoné removed from The View. “African Americans and black people around the Diaspora need a voice representative of their views and not a voice representative of what white people want us to say,” the petition read. “We need strong black role models in prominent positions on…

I was probably in my early teens when I first realized Tom Jones wasn’t black. My first exposure to him came when Alfonso Ribeiro did his “Carlton” dance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.  Then there was that episode during which Jones actually appeared, and here was this man with an Afro and some seriously…

This year’s Halloween costumes are still garnering a lot of talk, but LeBron James’ costume may have gone down in history as one of the best Halloween costumes ever. On Saturday night, James did his best impression of Prince, down to the leather pants, purple jacket and ruffled white blouse. Not to mention the curly…

Jerry Heller—the lawyer who worked with Eazy-E to get Ruthless Records and N.W.A off the ground—warned people that he would watch Straight Outta Compton with his lawyers. He was insinuating that he would sue if the biopic portrayed him inaccurately. Well, he’s keeping his word. According to TMZ, Heller is suing nearly every person and…

Serena Williams is all about breaking down barriers, particularly seeing black people inhabit and work in industries that have not traditionally coveted African Americans. In an as-told-to interview with Wired magazine, the tennis icon opened up about her interests in technology and the work she’s doing to get more black people to consider careers in…

People beat up on Kim Kardashian West a lot, mainly for the way she was introduced to the mainstream (her sex tape with Ray J) and the idea that she’s “famous for being famous”—meaning that she has no real talent or skill to warrant all of her success. I think that characterization is a bit…