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Jay Z and Beyoncé are set to host their second Tidal X charity concert Oct. 15 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.,  Rolling Stone reports. The event, which will benefit the Robin Hood Foundation, has been dubbed Tidal X: 1015 and will feature artists such as Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Nicki Minaj, Blood Orange, Alicia Keys,…

It never fails. Not a day goes by when I don’t see a tweet that makes me shake my head. And I’ve decided to chronicle the ridiculous to the informative on Tweet of the Day. And for the first tweet, we have someone who doesn’t think slavery was that bad. https://twitter.com/anorIondo/status/778607615706329088 Thankfully, someone had the…

Actor Isaiah Washington has one simple solution to fight police brutality. And it involves hitting the country where it hurts the most: its pockets. “If every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted, would pick ONE DAY to simply ‘stay at home’ from every…

Disney’s first animated film with a Polynesian character is set to hit theaters later this year, but one part of Moana’s merchandising has some people offended. Moana, which stars Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson as the demigod Maui, has a questionable Halloween costume. The costume features tribal tattoos, brown skin and fake muscles, and there’s also…

Rapper Shawty Lo was killed early Wednesday morning during a hit-and-run accident in Georgia. The Atlanta native, born Carlos Walker, was one of the founding members of the group D4L. The “Dey Know” rapper was driving on Interstate 285 when his vehicle was struck by another car. According to the Georgia Department of Transportation, Walker’s car…

Can you name a sitting president who has had, not one, but two movies made about his life? Probably not. But President Barack Obama’s life has become fodder for the silver screen. Earlier this summer, Southside With You, a movie about the president’s courtship of the first lady, was released and received amazing reviews. And…

Editor’s note: This post contains tweets that some may find offensive. In today’s “When Your White Ally Goes Wrong” news, David Simon, creator of The Wire, had some explaining to do on social media when he used the n-word in a tweet. Simon took issue with the fact that Donald Trump was having a “a town hall meeting on…

As someone who has to pay attention to social media as part of her job, whenever I see a person’s name as a hashtag on Twitter, there’s always some trepidation when it comes to clicking it. On Monday evening, I saw #TerenceCrutcher and assumed it had to deal with Monday-night football. But within seconds of…

Social media giant Twitter announced Monday that it was rolling out changes to its tweet format that affect what counts toward the 140-character limit currently in place for tweets. The changes, which were originally announced in May, include the following: When you’re replying to others in a Tweet, the @ names of the users you…

If there was ever a family whose members will stab each other in the back but then fight to protect each other, it’s the Lyon family. Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), Lucious (Terrence Howard), Jamal (Jussie Smollett), Andre (Trai Byers) and Hakeem (Bryshere “Yazz” Gray) put the “dys” in dysfunctional, but in Empire’s third season, they really only have…