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Top 8 Iconic BET Awards Moments
We’ve been blessed to see another June and with this month comes the blackest night in television. Yup, that’s right, it’s time we gather around as a family and tune into the BET Awards! Since 2001 (yes it has been 18 whole entire years), BET has been celebrating the best in our industry, because we…
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'This Is Not a Free Ride'— Jesse Williams Denies Ex-Wife's Legal Fees Plea, Says She's Capable of Employment
Divorces can be messy—add celebrity to that, and you have a messy smorgasbord. As the legal battle between Jesse Williams and Aryn Drake-Lee continues, the costs naturally increase. Williams filed for divorce in April 2017 and currently pays Drake-Lee $100,000 a month in child and spousal support. Earlier this month, Drake-Lee requested that Williams pay…
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Jesse Williams Is Sorry You Were Offended by His Artistic Expression
Just a day after he caught all types of hell on Twitter because he decided it was a good idea to make a meme of Mamie Till-Mobley using the new Nike slogan from the Colin Kaepernick campaign, Jesse Williams showed up on the social media platform to apologize. Sort of. Williams made the memes on…
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Dear Jesse Williams: Oh No, Baby! What Is You Doing?
Remember when we all thought Jesse Williams was our new light-skinned, light-eyed, social justice warrior bae? Remember when he gave that fire speech at the BET awards, and we were drawn even further into his light-skint web? Remember when we found out the details of his divorce from his black wife and learned he was…
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Damn, Dzaddy: Jesse Williams Ordered to Pay Over $50,000 a Month in Child Support
Well, we know where a good chunk of Jesse Williams’ “Blebrity” money will be going. According to court documents filed in Los Angeles Tuesday and obtained by E! News, Williams has been ordered to pay $50,629 a month in child support to his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, to support their two kids, Maceo, 2, and Sadie,…
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Dear White People Cast Members Play a Frustrating Game of Jesse Williams’ ‘Blebrity’
Have you watched season 2 of Dear White People yet? If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? This season digs deeper into the issues that black students in a white college face, like subtle and blatant racism, and, honestly, those that a kid in any college might face, like dealing with pregnancy, depression, coming…
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Is This Jesse Williams’ New Girlfriend? We Don’t Know … but We Have Questions
All eyes have been on Jesse Williams since it was announced last year that he was divorcing his wife, Aryn Drake-Lee. Since the divorce announcement, there’s been the typical “he said, she said” when it comes to accusations of infidelity and why the marriage fell apart. With celebrity divorces, drama follows, and on Wednesday, a…
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Jesse Williams Blasts H&M Over Monkey Sweatshirt
H&M is catching it from all sides since social media discovered a little black boy modeling a monkey sweatshirt on its website. So far, the Weeknd and rapper G-Eazy have ended their partnerships with the company, and several other celebrities and athletes have called out H&M over its racist ad. Now Jesse Williams has a…
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Jesse Williams Stars in New 7-Minute Protest Film Available Exclusively on Tidal
Is love the answer to all of America’s problems? That is the question the producers of a new short documentary film want us to consider. Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz of Bush Renz (“Kill Jay-Z,” “17”) have teamed up with Sankofa.org (founded by Harry Belafonte) and Tidal to bring us the seven-minute protest film Versus,…
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Jesse Williams, Jay-Z, Umar Johnson and the Allure of White Women
“There’s dishes in the back, he gotta roll up his sleevesBut while y’all washin’—watch himHe gon’ make it to a Benz out of that DatsunHe got that ambition, baby, look in his eyesThis week he moppin’ floors, next week he’s on friesSo stick by his sideI know there’s dudes ballin’, and yeah, that’s niceAnd they…