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It’s funny to think that NBA star Dwight Howard came into the league in 2004 as the goody-two-shoes athlete who was going to bring his Christian values to a sport overrun by bravado, groupies, fast money and a lavish lifestyle. Boy, has he fallen short of that. Now a woman named Tiffany has filed a…

Kelly Rowland got her hair (well, weave, but whatever) blown out, curled, braided, slicked back, straightened and bumped to achieve a few of the signature hair looks donned by pop-culture icons Diana Ross, Sade, Bianca Jagger and Farida Khelfa Goude.  In a photo shoot with Mane Addicts, Rowland described her hair journey from the cute,…

So maybe black men don’t all love Tess Holliday after all? After claiming that they do, the plus-size model is now apologizing for the comments she made to The Guardian. In an interview with The Guardian, Holliday spoke about the attention she receives from black men when she’s walking through black neighborhoods, and needless to say, that…

In May, Prince sold out a Baltimore arena during his surprise Rally4Peace concert, and now he’s heading to Washington, D.C. The Purple One and his all-female band, 3rdeyegirl, will perform at D.C.’s Warner Theater Sunday, the last stop of his HitnRun tour. Prince’s most recent tour has been the epitome of spontaneity, with little to…

Rick Ross was allegedly caught driving dirty and was arrested and booked into a Fayette County, Ga., jail Wednesday. Authorities say that Ross, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, was pulled over because of possibly illegal window tints, according to CNN. It was then that police officers say they smelled marijuana coming from his…

In today’s “It was bound to happen” news, it was announced on Wednesday that Raven-Symoné has a permanent spot on The View, after months of “auditioning.” We definitely can’t wait to see what controversial thoughts Raven-Symoné will share with the world in the future. That is, once we forget her most recent blunders. Because we…

What you’re not going to do is hock payday loans on TV and try to insult someone on Twitter who is attempting to better the lives of black people across the country. But unfortunately, Montel Williams learned this lesson the hard way on Wednesday. The former talk show host and now face of payday loans…

As someone who’s worn her hair natural since 1994, I can’t count the times people have attempted to dig their fingers into my follicles. I also can’t count the times when I’ve threatened people that they’ll draw back a nub if they attempt to touch my hair without permission. Permission that I’d never give anyone,…

What do you do in the off-season when the checks aren’t coming in? If you’re Miami Dolphins defensive tackle A.J. Francis, you drive. For Uber, that is. Although Francis is set to earn $510,000 in 2015, he doesn’t start seeing those checks until July, so as a side hustle, he’s been moonlighting as an Uber…

There has been one group of people who’ve been seemingly silent since a video was released of a McKinney, Texas, police officer brutally violating a 15-year-old girl in a bikini after being called to shut down a pool party. People all over social media and black media have noticed the deafening silence of mainstream (ahem…