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Nate Parker Dodges Question About Apologizing to Rape Accuser
The Birth of a Nation was screened over the weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, and on Sunday, Nate Parker appeared at the press conference for the film. During the press conference, New York Times reporter Cara Buckley asked Parker why he hadn’t apologized to his rape accuser or her family. “I’ve addressed this a few times,…
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Kate Upton, Michael Rapaport Twitter-Lecture People on How and When to Protest
Sunday-afternoon football brought out all of the experts when it came to when and how to properly protest. Of course, these lessons in protests were mainly aimed at the black athletes protesting injustice by sitting out the national anthem, and, of course, they came from white people because white people know best when it comes to…
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Diddy Tops Forbes ‘Cash Kings’ List Once Again
For the second year in a row, Sean “Diddy” Combs has hit the top of the Forbes 2016 “Cash Kings” list, raking in $62 million in 2016. It is his fifth time taking the top spot. The Forbes Hip-Hop Ranking is now in its 10th year and has been referenced in numerous rap songs, including…
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Kenya Barris Sued for $1,000,000 Over Credit for Black-ish
Kenya Barris, creator of our favorite primetime sitcom, Black-ish, has been sued for $1 million by a former collaborator, a director who says he stole the show idea from him, Deadline reports. Music video director Bryan Barber, who helmed the 2006 film Idlewild, says he met Barris at Clark Atlanta University in 1996 and formed…
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Rapper Bobby Shmurda Gets 7 Years in Prison
Rapper Bobby Schmurda, the man behind the popular Shmoney dance—a craze all over America for a moment—copped a plea for seven years in prison just days before his trial on conspiracy and weapons charges was set to begin. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist, whose real name is Ackquille Pollard, was facing 25 to life as prosecutors maintained…
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Rapper Desiigner Arrested on Drug and Weapons Charges
Nineteen-year-old rapper Desiigner was arrested Thursday night in New York City after authorities say a road rage incident turned into a drug and weapons bust. According to TMZ, Sidney Royel Selby III (the rapper’s real name) got into an altercation with drivers in another car and allegedly pulled a gun out on them. The rapper…
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NYC Subway Singer Goes Viral
If there was ever a voice that you’d want to hear on the radio, it’s Michael Young’s. A Twitter user posted a video of Young singing in the New York City subway system, and it immediately went viral. Young effortlessly belted out “Unchained Melody” to a small crowd gathered around him. But it’s not the…
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Watch: New Trailer for Issa Rae's HBO Series Insecure
Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore’s new HBO series, Insecure, debuted its first full trailer Thursday ahead of the October premiere. Insecure stars Awkward Black Girl creator Rae; Yvonne Orji as Molly, her BFF; and Jay Ellis, as her boyfriend. Earlier this week, Rae told fans why she named the series Insecure: Insecure premieres Oct. 9 on HBO…
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Ben Vereen Accused of Bigamy
Tony Award-winning actor Ben Vereen seems to be in a pickle when it comes to a marriage that occurred in 1965. Vereen married his first wife, Andrea Vereen, when he was 19 and she was 14 and pregnant. Nine years later, they separated and divorced. Or at least that’s what Andrea Vereen thought—until she tried to…
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Iconic Entertainer Lady Chablis Passes Away
She was the scene stealer in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and a Savannah, Ga., legend. But now the world is mourning the passing of Lady Chablis. According to Savannah Now, Club One, where she was a longtime performer, posted information about Chablis’ death on its Facebook page. The Lady Chablis first made…