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Going viral isn’t anything new to Ryen McPherson and his production company Indecline. In the early 2000s, McPherson single-handedly pissed off the media with his Bumfights videos. In some circles the videos were considered a cult phenomenon; in others, just a violent way to exploit the homeless. After selling his stake in the series, McPherson took a…

Depression is something many people often face silently and alone. Some choose to cut themselves off from the world and handle it on their own. And there are others who choose to seek help from mental-health professionals. For Wentworth Miller, as his fame rose with his series Prison Break, so did his bouts with depression, he…

“They just let that happen?” asked the announcer. Yup, they sure did. A little boy ran onto the basketball court to hug New York Knick Carmelo Anthony during a game against the New Orleans Pelicans in New Orleans Monday night. And no one, including the announcer, could believe it. As quickly as he ran to give Anthony…

Who needs an expensive vegetable chopper when you can easily buy a pick from your local dollar store? Sure, it’s not the most conventional use of a pick, but a recent video uploaded to Facebook shows just how easily it works. This is one of the few times when I wondered, “Why didn’t I think…

In honor of Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, his accomplishments and always representing Queens, N.Y., fans have created a petition to have a street named after his group A Tribe Called Quest. A Tribe Called Quest Boulevard would be the name of a portion of Linden Boulevard between 192nd Street and 193rd Street in the New York…

Remember those old Billy Dee Williams Colt 45 commercials from back in the day? Here was this suave and handsome man trying to get people to drink malt liquor. But in reality, the only people I ever saw drinking it were men standing on the corner with half a bottle sticking out of a brown…

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is slated to open in September, has already drawn controversy over an exhibit dedicated to the accomplishments of Bill Cosby. Although the museum says that the exhibit will be small, several women who have accused Cosby of sexual assault are outraged because the exhibit fails to mention…

Sean “Diddy” Combs is going from hip-hop and vodka mogul to education. Combs is opening a charter school in his hometown of Harlem in the same buildling as El Museo del Barrio and the Museum of the City of New York. Combs started the prep work for the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School in 2011,…

Rapper T.I. and his wife, R&B singer Tiny, welcomed their newest bundle of joy into the world Saturday. But the rapper wasn’t too happy with how the news broke.  On Facebook, T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, posted about not being able to witness the birth in person, as well as having other people…

Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. Since the death Wednesday of A Tribe Called Quest’s Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, various people in the hip-hop community have posted tributes to the late rapper. But one tribute stands out in the crowd, and it comes from Taylor’s longtime friend Busta…