Culture

Samuel L. Jackson is requesting celebrities to put up or shut up with violence against blacks involving racist police officers. Jackson created a video message on Facebook calling on celebs who participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge this summer to sing, We Ain’t Gonna Stop Till People are Free. Jackson posted a video message on Facebook Saturday night, after a day […]

Bill Cosby is finally breaking his silence with the media as the the growing number of sexual assault allegations surrounding him continues. While Cosby doesn’t address the allegations directly he uses the opportunity to reprimand the black media on the coverage of the scandal. In an brief interview with the New York Post, Cosby tells reporter Stacy Brown, who also writes […]

The mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice came together for the first time on Dec. 12  to sit for a joint interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The moms of the four dead unarmed black males along with attorney Benjamin Crump, expressed to Cooper if their sons were white they would still be alive. Gwen Carr the […]

Supermodel Beverly Johnson is sharing with the world more details of her claims actor/comedian Bill Cosby drugged her. A day after Johnson’s stunning essay in Vanity Fair where she alleges in 1986 Cosby drugged her after he invited her to his home, the fashion legend talked with Nightline about her encounter. While Johnson, who was the first […]

Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson’s appeal to the NFL to lift his suspension for violation of the league’s personal conduct policy was denied. Peterson was placed on suspension after he was arrested and charged with child abuse in Texas of his 4-year-old son. Peterson plead no contest to misdemeanor reckless assault on Nov. 4 after he […]

Funnyman Dave Chappelle is speaking out about his encounter with the police. During his stand-up routine on Dec. 12 in New Orleans, Chappelle revealed to the audience he was choked by the police when he was filming a movie in the city years ago. While Chappelle’s act was not recorded, Jarvis DeBerry from The Times-Picayune, was in […]

Attorney, speaker and author of “Our Kind Of People,” Lawrence Otis Graham appeared on Nightline to piss all Black people off the same way CNN host Don Lemon does. In the video above, Graham explains that he urges his privileged children to wear sweater vests instead of graphic T-shirts with offensive messages and khakis instead of baggy […]

Rapper Jay-Z is urging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reshape New York state’s current justice system in the wake of nationwide protests of unarmed blacks being killed by white police officers who aren’t held criminally responsible. Jay-Z along with hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons spoke with Cuomo about reforms, while rapper Common joined Simmons at a […]

VH1 is gearing up to delve into the world of Black Greek life with the series debut of Sorority Sisters. The new reality show follows nine women who are part of four different sororities as they attempt to continue on, maintain and uphold the practices and observances of their chapters and sororities. MUST READ: Will Mona […]

A key witness interview involving the deadly shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown was not among the thousands of pages of documents released by the St. Louis County prosecutors surrounding the Darren Wilson grand jury. The transcript and audio of the FBI and county police interview involving Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson was not in the over 5,700 pages […]

Jill Scott, Regina Hall and Eve begin their mad dash to the alter in Lifetime’s original film, With This Ring. The romantic comedy focuses on three best friends Trista, (Hall), Viviane (Scott), and Amaya (Cooper) who all make the decision together to get married within the year, after they’ve attended their good pal Elise’s (Brooklyn Sudano)’s wedding. […]