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MTV Movie & TV Awards Yank Jason Mitchell’s Best Performance Nod Following Misconduct Allegations
The bells continue to toll for embattled actor Jason Mitchell. The MTV Movie & TV Awards have dropped him from contention for this year’s “Best Performance in a Show” award for his work in Showtime’s The Chi following allegations of misconduct. As the Chicago Tribune reports: Mitchell had been set to face off in the…
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Save Our Moms: Lena Waithe Joins MTV and the Black Mamas Matter Alliance to Fight Black Maternal Mortality
Of the many ways in which the United States has long been considered a global leader, there is one which is deeply shameful. “In the past three decades in the U.S., the number of women who die from pregnancy-related complications has more than doubled,” says Lena Waithe, in a new PSA. “Over half of these…
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DC Young Fly, Lil Yachty Light Up the Screen in How High 2 Trailer
Once you get past all the MySpace surveys and horrific fashion trends, the 2000s were actually pretty dope. It gave us a pre-MAGA Kanye, Grand Theft Auto III, and gas that was under $2 a gallon—which is reason enough to revisit the era in which we wore du-rags as fashion accessories. But also of note,…
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Bloody Beefs in the Social Media Age: Ice Cube and MTV Studios to Reboot Celebrity Deathmatch
Celebrity Deathmatch back. Well, it will be, thanks to Ice Cube. Many of us remember sitting down in front of the TV and watching stop-motion animated bloody fights between celebrities as part of our wildest fantasies. It gave us the opportunity to see what would happen if celebrity beefs were transported to the ring in…
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Steve Stoute Once Again Disrupts the Future With His New UnitedMasters Venture. First Partnership? The NBA
In his myriad years in the music industry, Steve Stoute has proven himself a major player and a game changer, too. Hailed as a marketing genius by some, the man who began his career as road manager for Kid & Play has grown and evolved to become a label exec, an advertising mogul and,…
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A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown of the Destiny's Child Episode of MTV Cribs in 2000
0:01: The camera pans down a spiral staircase as we’re greeted with a bubbly and aggressively southern voice that we soon learn belongs to Beyoncé Knowles, the lead singer of Destiny’s Child. And if we weren’t quite sure that she’s the leader, her entire stomach is out. Only leaders are allowed to have their entire…
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Hillary Clinton Was Paid $7,000 Less Than Snooki From Jersey Shore for a Speech at Rutgers University: Report
One would assume that losing the presidential election to the human equivalent of a tall white kitchen trash bag tinted orange from day-old grease would be the furthest from grace that Hillary Clinton could fall. Well, one would be wrong. According to a report at NJ.com, Clinton, who once commanded speaking fees of up to…
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Missy Elliott’s Supa Dupa Fly Is the Story of the Black Girl Who Wins
This week at VSB, we’re running a series called Albums That Changed My Life in which different writers let you in on the music that helped shape and mold them into the people they are now. Today we hear from Ashlee Haze as she tells us lessons she learned from Missy Elliott’s Supa Dupa Fly.…
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Moonlight Actors Win Best Kiss at MTV Movie and TV Awards
Moonlight’s Jharrel Jerome and Ashton Sanders won Best Kiss at the MTV Movie and TV Awards Sunday, beating out heavy kissers like La La Land’s Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Sanders, 21, and Jerome, 19, were both shocked as they walked onstage to accept the award, but it was their speech that stood out even…