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Larry Wilmore has no regrets when it comes to using the n-word during last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. In an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that aired on MSNBC on Sunday, the comedian said that it was fitting for President Barack Obama’s last year in office. Wilmore ended his speech with, “Yo,…

Rihanna wants to reward students who believe in hard work. On Monday the singer announced the new Global Scholarship Program, which will assist students from various countries in attaining a college education in the U.S.  Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation will offer scholarships to residents of Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti and Jamaica who are eligible…

Last week Arsenio Hall filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Sinead O’Connor after the singer said that he had supplied Prince with drugs and drugged her in the past. Hall called the claims absurd and called O’Connor a desperate attention seeker with whom he hadn’t had contact in over 25 years. On May 2,…

MAC Cosmetics recently released its new summer collection, called Vibe Tribe, and supposedly it’s an ode to summer-music-festival fashions and colors. But apparently, MAC didn’t realize or just kinda forgot that many people who attend summer music festivals, like Coachella, commonly appropriate Native American culture. And from the look of its advertisement, MAC is doing…

Taking place in Cleveland, The Land is a coming-of-age film executive-produced by Nas and written and directed by newcomer Steven Caple Jr. The film stars The Wire’s Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, Machine Gun Kelly and Sons of Anarchy’s Kim Coates, with newcomer Jorge Lendeborg Jr. The movie follows the turbulent lives of four teens who have…

Wendy Williams is no stranger to anyone. If you weren’t acquainted with her from her years in radio, then you’ve definitely seen her on your TV screen as the dynamic, opinionated and unpredictable host of The Wendy Williams Show. At the beginning of 2016, Williams tearfully announced the renewal of her show for the next…

I’m sure you did a double take at the title of this post. Hell, I did a double take as I was writing it, because I cannot believe the garbage I see on a daily basis on Facebook. When it’s not Bible quotes written in all capital letters or someone stanning for Bernie Sanders or…

When you have as much star power and influence as Denzel and Pauletta Washington and it’s put to good use, amazing things happen. While Barack Obama was giving his final speech at the White House Correspondents’ dinner Saturday night, the Washingtons were throwing a lavish party with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, all in support…

Sinead O’Connor made some serious allegations about Prince and Arsenio Hall on Facebook this week. The singer alleged that Hall was Prince’s drug supplier for many years. And she also said the former talk show host even drugged her.   O’Connor wrote: Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the…

Here’s yet another thing that’s hard to do when you’re black: using Airbnb. Quirtina Crittenden, a 23-year-old black woman from Chicago, created the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack after she noticed how often she was turned down on the rental site.  “The hosts would always come up with excuses like, ‘Oh, someone actually just booked it’ or ‘Oh,…