A$AP Rocky might have to eat his words now that his comments on police brutality from a debate at Oxford University in London surfaced. The At. Long. Last. A$AP rapper was asked by a participant at Oxford Union, the world’s top debating society, about his thoughts on the recurring incidents of police brutality in America, and Rocky believes that the […]
Chris Brown has taken matters into his own hands when it comes to his one-year-old daughter, Royalty. The singer has filed for custody and for his child support to be lowered because his child’s mother, Nia Guzman, is asking for too much money, according to TMZ. He’s been paying Guzman $2,500 a month in child support, but […]
Laurence Fishburne is set to star in the A+E adaptation of the 1977 miniseries, Roots, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Fishburne will play Alex Haley, who wrote the novel in 1976. James Earl Jones originally played Haley in the series. Roots was centered around Kunta Kinte (played by LeVar Burton) after being sold into slavery, and it follows his life […]
Raven-Symone hasn’t been one to bite her tongue in recent years, and the actress has caught some flack for that. Last year, in an episode of OWN’s Where Are They Now? with Oprah Winfrey, Symone said that she didn’t label herself as African-American. Winfrey told her that Black Twitter wasn’t going to support her, and Twitter […]
What won’t Fox News say to make itself look dumb? In its latest, on the network’s The Five, the show touched on Kendrick Lamar‘s performance at the BET Awards this past Sunday saying it stirred up violence. Lamar opened the show with “Alright,” a song which boasts lyrics of police brutality, while standing on a cop car […]
50 Cent is nowhere near done with his one-man vendetta against Empire, and now he’s picking one against the BET Awards, which just aired last Sunday (June 28). 50 is crying foul for the network picking Terrence Howard as best actor over Power‘s Omari Hardwick. “It’s a damn shame what happened to the BET Awards. Fox bought the whole g-ddamned […]
John Legend married supermodel Chrissy Teigen in 2013, and he hasn’t been shy about sharing his love for her with world. After all, this is the same woman who inspired his biggest hit to date (“All of Me”), so who would be surprised? During an Ask Me Anything segment on Reddit, the singer-songwriter continued to talk openly about […]
There’s no way that we can say that we’ll be disappointed by the upcoming Janet Jackson tribute on the BET Awards this Sunday because it didn’t happen yet, but we can’t say we’re not a little skeptical by choices of Tinashe and Jason Derulo (who will be joined by Ciara and Chris Brown) to perform. This won’t be […]
Meagan Good is super successful at starring in TV pilots, like her upcoming show Minority Report, which will premiere on Fox this fall. As far as staying a successful television star, that’s an entirely different story. We’ll see how the veteran actress will do against the competition. So far, the show’s only true competition is ABC’s Dancing […]
Remember when Ben Affleck was all sad a couple of months ago when he found out that his family owned slaves on the PBS show Finding Your Roots and wanted to have just that part stricken from the episode? PBS has suspended the show for actually complying with Affleck on editing out facts about his family tree. […]
We’re used to seeing Taye Diggs in his romantic lead roles, so to see him as the flashy, transgendered frontman Hedwig in Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch is completely out of the norm. People exclusively released the first photo of Diggs as Hedwig, and we have to admit, we’re intrigued. Diggs told People that he is ready for […]
President Obama has gotten a bit more scrappy these past few months, and he’s letting it all out. Yesterday, during a White House reception for LGBT Pride Week, he was interrupted by a woman who started shouting about immigration policies and Obama wasn’t having it, according to USA Today. “Hold on a sec,” said Obama. […]