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The fast-food breakfast beef has begun. In one corner you have IHOP, known for flipping pancakes and serving breakfast all day. You could say they’re the Drake of the pancake game. In the other corner you have McDonald’s, who recently announced that their breakfast would be sold all day. But just like Meek Mill, McDonald’s…

Whenever an African American gets hired to direct the next film in a billion-dollar box-office franchise, every black person ought to grab the nearest cup and toast that man. Congratulations are in order—yet again—for F. Gary Gray. He’s the guy slated to direct Furious 8, Deadline is reporting. Fast & Furious lead actor and producer…

George Zimmerman, the gun-wielding night watchman who gunned down Trayvon Martin, is now speaking out about a tweet that was recently posted from his account. Two weeks ago, Zimmerman retweeted a photo that an “admirer” sent him but alleges that he didn’t realize the photo was a picture of the teen’s dead body. In a…

“My entire post was taken out of context.” That’s what Gerod Roth said during his interview with Fox 5 Atlanta when he was asked to explain why he and his friends posted racist comments underneath the photo of a little black boy that Roth posted to Facebook under a different name. Roth, a white man,…

Rachel Dolezal will be happy to know she has at least one celebrity supporter, in the form of Rihanna. In the singer’s cover interview for Vanity Fair, she praises the former NAACP chapter leader as being a “hero.” Maybe Rihanna has a different definition of the word? “I think she was a bit of a…

What started out as a fun trip for a group of book club members on California’s Napa Valley Wine Train ended up being more than what they expected. Members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club were kicked off the train Aug. 22 after train employees said they were being too loud. The incident…

Andrew Caldwell is adamant about not going away. After going viral when he proclaimed, “I’m not gay no more” during a church service, Caldwell has been milking his 15 minutes of fame for everything it’s worth, and his recent comments may come with a price. In an interview with an online radio show, Caldwell alleged that…

In an as-told-to essay published at Mater Mea, Rhonda Ross—the only child of Motown legends Berry Gordy and Diana Ross—bared her soul about the journey she went on to become a mother at 37. The now-46-year-old had three miscarriages and revealed that when she began trying to have a child in her 20s, she didn’t…

There is a man who goes by the name of Geris Hilton on Facebook (reportedly not his real name) who used to have a job. “Hilton” used to work at Polaris Marketing Group, according to AtlantaBlackStar, but his employment status changed after he posted a photo on Facebook Sept. 16. In the photo, Hilton was…

Let’s face it—getting kids in gear for school every day isn’t easy. But one school administrator is willing to do whatever it takes to get his students motivated. Just as long as he can sing and dance while doing it. Gary Logan, the assistant principal at Woodrow Cummins Elementary in Conway, Ark., has gone viral…