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Star Wars Writer Confirms Lando Calrissian Is Pansexual
Growing up watching Star Wars, I was always in awe of Billy Dee Williams’ character, Lando Calrissian. Hell, I was in awe of Williams in just about anything, including the malt liquor commercials. This week, with the opening of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover is stepping into Williams’ perfectly coiffed and conked hair…
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Michael B. Jordan on the Cover of Essence Is Just the Christmas-in-June Blessing We Need
I first became familiar with actor Michael B. Jordan while he was a cast member on HBO’s The Wire. Wallace. The young kid we loved and rooted for because we just knew he did not belong in the low-rises, selling drugs with the likes of Bodie and Poot while taking care of an abandoned apartment’s…
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Leaked Jail Video Shows T.I. Questioning Cop About Arrest
Although cops allege that rapper T.I. was drunk and disorderly during his recent arrest, in a newly leaked jail video it appears that the rapper was quite lucid when he was questioning a police officer as to why he was arrested in the first place. On Wednesday morning, T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) was arrested…
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Bill Cosby to Be Sentenced in September
Bill Cosby is scheduled to be sentenced in September after being convicted of drugging and molesting former Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault last month. Since the verdict was handed out, Cosby has been confined to the same suburban Philadelphia mansion where he…
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Whitney Houston Documentary Reveals She Was Molested by Cousin Dee Dee Warwick
Singer Dionne Warwick’s sister, Dee Dee Warwick, has been named as a person who molested Whitney Houston in a new documentary that premiered at Cannes on Thursday. In the documentary Whitney, the singer’s longtime assistant, Mary Jones, says that Houston confided in her and told her about the molestation, which happened when she was a…
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Michael B. Jordan Talks Fake News, Internet Culture and Fahrenheit 451
Not even 24 hours after making his appearance at the Met Gala, Michael B. Jordan walked into the room I was sitting in with a huge smile on his face, a voice that sounded like it could use a throat lozenge, and a cologne that wasn’t too overwhelming and lingered nicely after he gave me…
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#GoingHomeWhileBlack: Rapper T.I. Arrested Outside His Gated Community After Misplacing Keys
After a Tuesday night out, Atlanta-based rapper T.I. attempted to re-enter his gated community home but realized that he’d misplaced his keys. Apparently the security guard wasn’t interested in letting him into his home, and an altercation occurred, which ended up with T.I. being arrested at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. According to the Associated Press, T.I.…
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Rihanna Does Not Give a Damn About the Royal Wedding
The best way to get yourself checked by a real-life icon is to make assumptions, and that’s exactly what happened to an Access Hollywood reporter when she assumed the following two things: 1. That Rihanna had received an invite to the royal wedding just because she met Prince Harry thatonetime. 2. That Rihanna, who has…
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The 2018 BET Awards Nominees Are …
Does it look like I was left off “Bad and Boujee”? Seems like it was forever ago, but it was just last year at the BET Awards red carpet that hip-hop trio Migos sat or, uhm, stood with Complex’s Everyday Struggle hosts DJ Akademiks, Nadeska Alexis and (*cough* former host) Joe Budden, thus creating a…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story: A Promising Prequel With an Even More Promising Lando
The trouble with prequels is that it’s hard to raise the stakes when you already know certain characters are going to live. And in the same vein, you can predict who’s going to die, but Solo: A Star Wars Story was able to capture the exploration of a pre-New Hope universe with fun dialogue and…