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Jill Scott told the Huffington Post in a piece posted Wednesday that she used to be a teacher, so she knows how contentious it can sometimes get between students and teachers. Even so, Scott says she saw something different take place in the video that captured the assault at Columbia, S.C.’s Spring Valley High School,…

MTV host and actor Sam Sarpong is dead at the age of 40 after jumping from a bridge in Pasadena, Calif. According to The Independent, police spent several hours trying to talk Sarpong off the bridge. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office released a statement saying that Sarpong’s death is being investigated as a suicide, and it…

Actor Samuel L. Jackson isn’t ashamed to show his body on social media. Especially if it’s for a good cause. The actor is showing his support for cancer charity One for the Boys and tweeted a photo of his nipple in order to raise awareness about male breast cancer. The organization’s #InTheNipOfTime initiative is encouraging…

In the late ’90s, Kel Mitchell was at the top of his game as one of the stars of All That, Kenan & Kel and Good Burger. But once Kenan & Kel was canceled in 2004, his rise to the top came to a screeching halt. It was then that Mitchell’s life fell apart. His…

Glory Johnson has had a lot on her plate over the last couple of months, from getting married and finding out she was pregnant with twins to a pending divorce and most recently giving birth prematurely.  Johnson’s twins were born Oct. 12, weighing only 1 pound, 7 ounces each but were originally due this coming…

Editor’s note: An earlier version of the story referred to the girl as an “orphan” who had recently lost her mother and grandmother. This was based on information that the unidentified girl’s attorney gave the New York Daily News. The New York Daily News has now updated its reporting to state that the girl is…

Rihanna’s legal team wants no part of this story about how a press guy named Jonathan Hay created the rumors about Rihanna and Jay Z having an affair behind Beyoncé’s back. Hay was reportedly interviewed by the author of an unauthorized Beyoncé biography that’s been the talk of the town lately. In the book, Hay…

The gift of ShondaLand keeps on giving. According to Variety, Kerry Washington and her Scandal co-star Katie Lowes (who plays Quinn Perkins) are executive-producing a ShondaLand series that’s in development at ABC. Look at Shonda Rhimes keeping her actresses working—and behind the camera, too, where folks say the real money is.  The untitled show is a…

Somebody on Twitter had Cher on her bully, yo.  On Monday the icon tweeted about how appalled she was by the video of the South Carolina student who was picked up, tossed and dragged by a school official. The incident was caught on tape and went viral. People from all walks of life are disgusted…

Breast-cancer awareness is a cause that is close to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ DeAngelo Williams. Last year Williams lost his mother, Sandra Hill, to cancer when she was only 53 years old. He has also lost four aunts to the disease. This year Williams donated 53 mammograms through his charity, the DeAngelo Williams Foundation, to local…