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Jada Pinkett Smith Responds to How Chris Rock Came for Her at the Oscars
Jada Pinkett Smith was catching a flight out of Los Angeles when she was asked by paparazzi about Chris Rock’s jokes about her at the Academy Awards. Remember, Rock basically said that Pinkett Smith didn’t have a horse in the #OscarsSoWhite race, since she’s a television actress. “Look, that comes with the territory, sweetheart,” Pinkett Smith…
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PTA Queen Beyoncé Reportedly Performed at a Benefit Gala Hosted by Blue Ivy’s Grade School
Most parents who are vying for the “Parent of the Year” award at their kid’s school bake chocolate chip cookies for go-away games, volunteer to be a chaperone on school trips or write a fat check to buy the entire soccer team new jerseys. But not Beyoncé. She steps it up a notch and donates…
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Ebony Celebrates Team Thickums on Its March Cover
March is Women’s History Month, and Ebony magazine is shoring up a specific kind of woman who isn’t celebrated as much: the curvy woman. Women who have been anxiously waiting to wave their Team Thickums ID cards proudly in everyone’s faces. Women who have been dubbed “plus size” by the mainstream. Style blogger Gabi Fresh, R&B…
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner: Why Vitriol Toward Cosby, but Less Toward Woody Allen and Stephen Collins?
Malcolm-Jamal Warner made it clear that he’s “in no position to defend” Bill Cosby concerning the dozens and dozens of sexual assault allegations leveled against him by women. But Warner suggested during an interview with The Real that he does think there’s a double standard at play concerning white male celebrities who have endured similar…
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5-Year-Old Celebrity Kid Produced Song on Kendrick Lamar’s New Surprise Album
All you Kendrick Lamar fans are having a very blessed Friday, I’m sure. The Grammy Award-winning rapper dropped a surprise album late Thursday night, seemingly called untitled unmastered—or he could just be saying that the album is both of those things. It’s an eight-track project, and none of the songs have names. Another special thing…
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That Rihanna Reign Just Won’t Let Up: Deets on Her Shoe Deal With Manolo Blahnik
Rihanna’s the queen of endorsements. Fly ones, too. She’s on the cover of April British Vogue, and inside she spills the beans on her new six-shoe endorsement campaign with the legendary high-end shoe company Manolo Blahnik. In the issue, she models in one of the shoes from her collection: thigh-high boots with crystals aligned at…
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Will Smith and Bad Boys Producer Have Reportedly Put Things in Motion for the Trilogy
TMZ caught wind of news that Will Smith and Jerry Bruckheimer—the producer behind the Bad Boys franchise—have inked a deal to put the franchise’s trilogy into motion. Sources told TMZ that Smith and Bruckheimer spent four hours at dinner Tuesday night and met up again for a long lunch Wednesday to hatch out the details.…
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This Empire Actor Reportedly Wants Out of the Show
Page Six got word from unnamed sources that Trai Byers—the actor who plays Andre Lyon on Empire—wants off the show. Apparently Byers feels that the role and the show are beneath him, since he’s a Yale-trained actor. The sources say that Byers has been exhibiting “diva behavior” on the set and, so, the show’s producers…
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Venus Williams Says Serena Encouraged Her to Return to Tournament After Racist Experience
Anyone with a little sister knows that sometimes the wisdom she imparts can resonate with you so deeply. It has something to do with seeing this younger person whom you’ve always led turn around and do the leading and the guiding. That’s what happened to Venus Williams and her baby sister, Serena. In a letter…
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Watch: Tyrese Tsk-Tsks Chris Rock for Dissing Jada Pinkett Smith
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. Tyrese didn’t watch the Academy Awards Sunday night because he was part of the cohort of people who were boycotting the show because of its lack of diversity in the main acting categories. But he did catch wind of host Chris Rock’s…
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