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Halle Berry wants to help women feel sexy at affordable prices. During a recent trip to Paris, the 48-year-old actress came across a high-end lingerie line called Scandale Paris and wanted to create a similar line, but one that was easy on the wallet. So Berry took matters into her own hands and has now…

Spike Lee’s new film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, opens in theaters nationwide and on demand Feb. 13, and he’s had people talking about it way before it was made. Lee’s latest, which he describes as “a new kind of love story about human beings who are addicted to blood,” was funded by donations made through Kickstarter. Da…

During Sunday night’s Grammy Awards ceremony, there was a bit of controversy surrounding the fact that Beyoncé was chosen to perform “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” instead of Ledisi, who portrayed Mahalia Jackson and performed the song in the Selma biopic. Many Ledisi fans felt that not having the soul singer perform on the Grammys…

In 2012 Stephanie Pitter, a former teaching assistant, school governor and mother of four from the United Kingdom, started a campaign for a mandatory black-history curriculum in primary education in the U.K. A website dedicated to the campaign, along with a petition that has already received more than 40,000 signatures, recently caught the attention of Selma’s…

Everyone watching the Grammys was in shock and awe when Prince presented Beck with the Album of the Year award, especially since he was in the same category as Beyoncé. Everyone also thought Kanye West was joking when he ran onstage, then immediately went back to his seat with a smile on his face—pretty much…

Year after year the Grammys prove that it doesn’t matter how talented you are when it comes to music. And every year, there’s always that one person who perfectly captures what the world is thinking when you’re sitting at home asking yourself, “How did Beyoncé just lose to Beck?” and “How long is this show?…

Communism! Still scary, apparently. At least to a gaggle of Republicans at Texas Tech University in Lubbock who want to bar civil rights activist Angela Davis from speaking on their campus, according to Fox 34 News. Said Carl Tepper, chair of the Lubbock County Republican Party and, seemingly, one of those whom the passage of…

We got just a … little … bit … closer to Issa Rae’s becoming a reality on our premium cable when we learned that HBO has officially ordered a pilot of her new show, Insecure. Rae, the woman behind the hit YouTube series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, co-created Insecure along with The Nightly…

In a week when magazine covers featuring black women—and starring the world’s worst Kerry Washington impersonator—went wrong, it was nice to see the leaked Lucky magazine cover featuring actress Lupita Nyong’o go right. Such natural lighting! A face that actually looks like her beautiful face! And so much excitement on social media. It’s such a…

For reasons not quite known, ex-Scandal star Columbus Short threatened to “murk”—aka murder—actor Jamie Foxx while in the middle of yet another alleged domestic violence blowup with an ex. According to TMZ, Short wilded out on his ex, fitness trainer to the stars Agostina Laneri, last week. After the incident, she got a restraining order…