Entertainment

If you’re the type who pays attention to trending topics, you’ll notice  that both #LukeCage and #Solange are currently trending on Twitter. And for good reasons. At 12 a.m. Friday, Netflix released its long-awaited series, Luke Cage. The Jessica Jones spinoff stars Michael Cotler as the invincible Luke Cage, as well as Mahershala Ali, Alfre…

The University of Texas at San Antonio is about to give students a sip of Beyoncé’s Lemonade in the form of an English course. On Thursday, UTSA announced the launch of “Black Women, Beyoncé and Pop Culture,” which will use the singer’s most recent album as its foundation. The English course will focus the “theoretical, historical and…

Jesse Williams wants people to vote. And in a new super PAC Save the Day public service announcement on YouTube, the actor spoke to those who are feeling indifferent and cynical about participating in the upcoming election. “If someone says, ‘Democracy is a sham, those people don’t speak for me … the system’s rigged,’ you say,…

I don’t watch Woody Allen movies. I think he and Roman Polanski should be sitting behind bars until they rot. Don’t even dare play R. Kelly music around me. There’s a long list of artists I refuse to support, even though some may call them geniuses or like to use the sugarcoated term “flawed geniuses.”…

I don’t live in a big city or cramped suburb—by choice. By being about 60 miles west of D.C., I’m given the opportunity to live in a tranquil living environment. I’m on a mountain, and my house is surrounded by a lake and untouched land. Unless it’s evening, I rarely need to turn on any…

California is making changes to the way it prosecutes rape and child-molestation cases, and it’s partially because of Bill Cosby’s drugging and rape allegations. On Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed S.B. 813, which ended the state’s 10-year statute of limitations regarding such cases, according to Reuters. “Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature of S.B. 813 tells every rape and sexual…

Common appeared on The View Tuesday to discuss race and politics in America, as well as promote his EPIX’s docuseries, America Divided, which he executive-produced. Common had a lot to say about Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the national anthem, and compared him to Muhammad Ali. “I truly relate to what Colin Kaepernick is doing,” Common said.…

Tristan Rettke, a freshman student at East Tennessee State University, apparently thought it would be funny to dress up in a gorilla mask and taunt a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. But it wasn’t funny when Rettke was charged with one count of civil rights intimidation. According to WCYB, Rettke was also armed with a…

Back when Hillary Clinton was on her superpredator steez, Pusha T was a 19-year-old rapper and one-half of the Virginia-based rap group Clipse with his brother, No Malice. By all accounts, Pusha T and No Malice were probably the “superpredators” she was referring to in her now-infamous 1996 speech. But boy, have times changed. Pusha T…

Mary J. Blige wasn’t too pleased about the comments she’s been receiving about her upcoming interview with Hillary Clinton. On Monday a promo shot was aired that shows Blige singing Bruce Springsteen’s “41 Shots” song to Clinton as she sat across from her. Most people’s reaction to the song ranged from “WTF?” to “Why, Lord.…