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I’m going to vote tonight. For the first time since “American Idol’s” debut back in the early 2000s, I’m going to text that 21523 number and show my support for Tyanna Jones — hopeful season 14 winner. I don’t watch Idol that much, but I just so happened to be on FOX, waiting for “Empire” to […]

Fox 8 News anchor Kristi Capel has been suspended for three days after using the racist slur “jigaboo” to describe the music accompanying Lady Gaga’s stellar “Sound Of Music” performance at the Oscars this year. In the segment, you could tell that Capel was trying to come up with a word to describe the loud […]

Ya know…we’ve mostly been here for Kanye West…we even defended him when he robbed Beck of his Grammy moment, but we must admit, he’s making us tired. We just have to be honest. Between bashing Amber Rose and his rants about the fashion industry, we’re like bruh! Don’t get us wrong, we love Ye’ and […]

Television

Yesss! A new generation (and the generation that grew up on it) will get to watch A Different World in all its HBCU glory when the series comes to Netflix starting March 1! As a spin-off of The Cosby Show, A Different World followed Denise Huxtable, one of the Cosby kids, (played by Lisa Bonet), on […]

Will Smith Has 7 Songs With Kanye West Although Will Smith is one of the world’s highest paid actors, he remains true to his hip-hop roots. While promoting his new film “Focus,” the fresh prince spilled the tea on hitting the studio with Kanye West. Who knows when or if these songs will see the light […]

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The Houston Chronicle revealed this week that based on 6,600 rape kits from the 1980s to today, there are 850 hits in the FBI’s nationwide database of DNA profiles, marking a major step in the city’s $6 million effort to address the backlog, officials announced Monday. There are 29 new charges against sexual predators filed […]

Nothing in this film is at all what it seems. But is that a bad thing? Will Smith’s latest movie, Focus had all the makings for cinematic goodness: action, mind games, twists, a hot blonde and the promised glimpse of Will Smith’s abs, but the focus of Focus was the unconventional love story between talented […]

Talk about making a statement! Tia Mowry arrived at the premiere for Will Smith’s new film, “Focus” wearing a black Balmain blazer, a sheer dress by Stone Cold Fox with a NOE Undergarments bodysuit and Stuart Weitzman sandals. MUST READ: Tracee Ellis Ross Shares What It Took To Love Her Natural Hair For added shock value, […]

“The moment you brought that White woman into my house, I knew then I couldn’t trust you. I knew then you didn’t want to be apart of my family.” To Black people, this conversation is familiar. “Don’t bring no White man home,” my mom would say. It’s not like she’d stop loving me if I […]

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Three White men (William Kirk Montgomery, Joseph Paul Dominick and Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp) have been sentenced to federal prison for the murder of James Craig Anderson, an unarmed and innocent 47-year-old Black man. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves issued the decrees to Montgomery, Dominick and Gaskamp. Montgomery received nineteen and a half years for helping to […]

Television

As little girls watching TV, it was a riot seeing Susie Carmichael because she looked just like us: brown skin and her black hair in braids, swinging about with barrettes on the end. We had already adored viewing the world through the curious minds of the babies on Rugrats. With the addition of Susie, the optimistic heroine against […]