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While I was standing in line at my local grocery store, in front of me stood a tall and burly black man. In front of him was a woman using a gift card to pay for groceries and attempting not to go over the $100 on the card. The cashier referred to both people by…

The pure irony of Mike Epps’ being busted on Twitter goes back to some of Epps’ own jokes about his wife taking his cellphone away and going through it. So no one knows why Epps tried to sneak into the direct messages of some random woman on Twitter. Epps tweeted a woman after she complained…

Just as season 2 of Empire is about to kick into gear, Terrence Howard is dealing with some real-life drama, which came to a head during court proceedings Monday. Howard’s second marriage, to Michelle Ghent, in January 2010 lasted only 13 months, but Ghent is attempting to get a judge to grant her spousal support,…

Earlier this month, TMZ caught up with Tracy Morgan and asked about his return to comedy, and the comedian put the celebrity-gossip site in check. “I never left,” replied Morgan. And he’ll prove that when he returns to the stage that gave him his start. On Oct. 17, Morgan is returning to host Saturday Night…

Apparently anything goes when it comes to comedy on Hulu, especially if it’s comedy written by white people. And it doesn’t matter if the subject of a joke is a 3-year-old and R. Kelly. Hulu recently premiered a new comedy produced by Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler called Difficult People, starring and created by…

Rihanna was befuddled (purely befuddled, it seems) to find that NBA player Matt Barnes thinks the two of them have something romantic going on, or are headed in that direction.  It all started when Barnes was interviewed by a TMZ cameraman and said that he thinks his and Rihanna’s relationship has “passed the crush stage.” …

Today is the deadline for the signing of a peace deal between South Sudan’s current president, Salva Kiir, and an opposition leader, Riek Machar, or else the country faces the possibiilty of economic sanctions, the BBC explains.  Miami Heat player Luol Deng—a South Sudanese native who came to the U.S. to attend high school—posted three…

Hollywood number crunchers who make film projections are licking their wounds this Monday morning.  Straight Outta Compton—the biopic chronicling the rise of the hip-hop group N.W.A—opened this weekend and is on track to pull in $57 million, an exceptionally good number for a release weekend, Variety explains. That’s more than three times what another major film…

Talib Kweli is no stranger to the politics of the world. Kweli, who made his presence known last year in Ferguson, Mo., doesn’t just use his music as a vessel to speak out against systemic racism; during any point of the day, you can find him schooling people on Twitter. On Friday the rapper appeared…

James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers doesn’t want anything to come easy for his sons, including participation trophies. Harrison’s two sons recently were given “participation trophies” for athletes, and Harrison took to Instagram to explain why he returned them. “While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do and will encourage them till the…