Entertainment

True confession time. I am an adult who still watches Sesame Street on a daily basis. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and countless other black celebrities put aside their adulthood and sing along with the likes of Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus and a bunch of elementary school students.…

Last week, on the heels of the video being released that showed former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice knocking out his wife, CBS canceled a prerecorded segment featuring Rihanna that was set to run on the opening night of Thursday Night Football. “Run This Town,” a collaboration between Rihanna and Jay Z, was supposed to be TNF’s…

Danièle Watts and boyfriend Brian James Lucas appeared on CNN’s New Day Monday morning and discussed with Michaela Pereira why Watts refused to show her identification to the Los Angeles police officer who detained her. According to Watts and her boyfriend, they were merely kissing in their car, but eyewitnesses say a little bit more was…

Kanye West has a bone to pick with the media, which is nothing new. After his recent demands, which included making everyone stand up during his concert and wanting proof that people were indeed disabled, he’s calling himself a target. During Monday night’s performance in Brisbane, Australia, West went on yet another rant: What I…

Since being released in March 2013, Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” has been mired in controversy, not only because of the lyrics that some people perceive as being “rapey” but also because of the allegations that the song is a blatant rip-off of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Thicke, along with Pharrell Williams and…

Maybe there’s something about the name “Ray” when it comes to the NFL. Way before the Ray Rice domestic-assault incident, there was another Ray making headlines. On Jan. 31, 2000, right after a Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta, Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis was involved in a fight that resulted in the stabbing deaths…

Somewhere along the way, Kanye West has not only lost his sense of humor—he’s also lost compassion. But that’s assuming he ever had any to begin with. Over the weekend, Mr. Kardashian showed just how much of an egomaniac he can be, and his targets were disabled concert attendees. During a show at the Qantas…

Before Aubrey Graham was the popular rapper who now goes by the name “Drake,” he played a high school student who used a wheelchair on the teen soap opera Degrassi. Drake’s version of “starting from the bottom” wasn’t quite actually the bottom. He was Jimmy Brooks, a high school basketball player who became known as…

Michael Che is making Saturday Night Live history: The comedian and Daily Show contributor will become SNL’s first black anchor for its “Weekend Update” segment. According to the New York Times, Che will join Colin Jost when he replaces Cecily Strong at the news desk. “Michael is a strong writer, and he’s really funny,” Lorne Michaels, SNL’s…

Editor’s note: According to Marge Feinberg, deputy press secretary of New York City Public Schools, Nicki Minaj wanted to flim her visit and planned to bring a TV crew.  “We do not allow reality TV to be filmed on school property,” Feinberg wrote in a statement. “For documentaries, any visit to a public school must be…