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In 2011, IMP Entertainment hired Nicki Minaj to perform at a NBA All-Star event. The company alleges that Minaj agreed to perform at midnight and for an hour. According to the New York Daily News, the company is now suing Minaj because not only was she 90 minutes late, but she performed for only 30 minutes.…

Things got a little too real recently on the set of Ice Cube’s N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton when real bullets went flying. According to TMZ, the cast and crew experienced a drive-by while filming a scene outside the Compton Courthouse in Los Angeles County, when a gunman in a car opened fire. The gunman was…

A Kansas City, Mo., cop is proving that there are officers out there who want to have a positive interaction with those in the community they serve. On Sunday afternoon, ironically a day after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo., two Kansas City police officers spotted a group of kids dancing in the street…

Orlando Scandrick, the Dallas Cowboys cornerback and ex-boyfriend of Basketball Wives LA star Draya Michele, received a four-game suspension by the NFL because he tested positive for drugs. According to ESPN, Scandrick recently vacationed in Mexico with the Basketball Wives star and popped a Molly. Although Scandrick has not confirmed his drug of choice, he did release an apology…

Say her name: Ms. Patti, Patti! The incomparable Patti LaBelle has been added to the fourth season of FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show. According to TV Line, LaBelle will join the cast for four episodes and will portray the mother of Gabourey Sidibe’s character. American Horror Story: Freak Show’s plot will focus on the last American…

A few hours before I learned of the killing of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police, I dropped my 15-year-old son off at the airport to visit his paternal family in Houston for the rest of the summer. I made sure to tell my son to call me once he got to his layover, which…

Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic is really starting to perturb a lot of people. In the cable network’s most recent casting reveal, we have the actors who will portray Missy Elliott and Timbaland, two of the people who had a hand in crafting Aaliyah’s sound.   First, let’s take a look at Elliott and Timbaland of yesteryear:…

The vicious slaying of Mike Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police has once again shown that the narrative the media paints surrounding black people in America more often than not includes depicting us as violent thugs with gang and drug affiliations. It’s safe to say that Brown has become a victim of what I like to refer…

On the heels of Theodore Wafer’s guilty verdict on Thursday for the murder of Renisha McBride in Dearborn, Mich., the Associated Press got its ass handed to it courtesy of Twitter. AP prides itself on being a respectable news agency, but last night it proved that it had no respect for the 19-year-old, whom Wafer shot after…

As a black person who’s been around countless metropolitan areas, such as Newark, N.J.; Baltimore; and Southeast D.C., the only places I tend to avoid now are where a plethora of Confederate flags and KKK meetings are being held. And in my current state of residence, those are in abundance. But I doubt that those…