Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Sarah Vaughan is being honored with a Forever stamp by the U.S. Postal Service, the Amsterdam News reports. The unveiling will take place March 29 in Newark, N.J.—where Vaughan was born. The image on the stamp is an oil painting of Vaughan’s face during a performance. It’s based on a photograph…

The court proceedings concerning the sexual assault charges brought against Bill Cosby in Pennsylvania have been put on hold, Deadline reports. A state Superior Court stopped the proceedings temporarily until a verdict is heard regarding the district attorney’s efforts to squash an appeal that Cosby’s legal team filed after failing in their first attempt to…

When the clock struck 5 p.m. Tuesday, negotiations between Melissa Harris-Perry and MSNBC—the cable network that used to air her eponymous show—seemed to come to a screeching halt. Harris-Perry took to Twitter to tweet as much and then went on to open up in a defiant and zero-f—ks-given way about how her show was treated…

During a podcast, J.J. Reddick—the white Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard from Virginia who was once the face of Duke basketball during his successful tenure with the program in the early 2000s—said that he’s sick of the media perpetuating the “white Duke villain myth.” “I think it’s fine for an opposing fan base to choose a player…

Fashion model Ajak Deng has decided that she’s going to continue on with her career in order to fight a battle that she deems worthy of pursuing.   It’s the battle about diversity in the fashion industry—more specifically, combating the European beauty standards that darker-complexion models like herself go up against every time they audition…

Ciara was in Nigeria this past weekend for a show but made it a point to visit students at a local school, too. She posted video to Instagram of her reciting an empowering message with the students about accomplishing the dreams people have for their lives. Another student sang to Ciara. Ciara mentioned that the…

The Academy Awards Sunday night had the lowest ratings in the show’s past eight years, Deadline reports. It’s both shocking and expected. On one end, a boatload of people vowed to boycott the Oscars because of the lack of racial diversity in its best-acting categories. On the other, everyone was anticipating host Chris Rock’s opening…

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with a statement from TIDAL’s public relations representative. An independent artist is claiming that Jay Z reneged on his promise about what Tidal would be and mean for musicians: an online music-streaming service that gave artists their full due by paying them fairly and adequately for the rights…

Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher does not think it’s a good idea for Black Lives Matter activists to target Hillary Clinton’s record on helping (or not helping) black Americans, given that there are other candidates running for president who are a hell of a lot worse—e.g., Donald Trump. During a segment of his HBO…

Although T.I. and Tiny already have two daughters—each from a previous relationship—they don’t have a biological daughter together. So it’s a beautiful thing that their upcoming bundle of joy is indeed a girl. (They also have two sons together, and two from T.I.’s previous relationship.) T.I. revealed the gender of the baby during an interview…