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Friendly disclaimer: This will likely shave about two hours off your productivity time if you watch this at work. It is addictive and will leave you ridden with nostalgia—the good kind. You may not know this, but Ms. Lauryn Hill shot a minidocumentary about her tour stop in Japan while she was promoting The Miseducation…

Cannabis and Snoop Dogg go hand in hand. And since the legalization of weed is becoming a respected initiative, and the medical-marijuana industry is on the up-and-up, it makes sense that the rapper was tapped by a Canadian cannabis company to promote its products. Snoop’s company, LBC Holdings, inked a deal with the cannabis company…

Earlier this month we discovered a set of twins and their mother who looked more like triplets instead of mother and daughters. Kaylan Mahomes, her twin and their mother stumped the Internet when no one could figure out who the mother was in the photo. That photo has spawned a pair of copycats. Donna Galt,…

Last year a group of influential bloggers got together and re-created iconic images for Black History Month using images of black heroines from the past and re-creating them with activists, artists and other influential black women from the present.  Known as the Style Influencers Group, Jessica Andrews, Christina Brown and Lexi Felder, along with African Pride, this…

Prince is currently on a solo tour that features only him, a piano and his microphone. During the Australian leg of the tour, the Purple One learned about the death of his ex-girlfriend Denise Matthews, also known as Vanity. The singer, who is somewhat private about his personal life, opened up about Matthews’ death during…

When Kanye West revealed that he was in debt to the tune of $53 million, people probably wondered why he didn’t just ask his extremely rich wife for a small business loan. Although the “debt” was a bit of an exaggeration, one fan decided to help a brother out. Jeremy Piatt of Minnesota has set up…

Joseph Fiennes, the white British actor set to play Michael Jackson in a new movie, is still defending his role in the upcoming British comedy about a fictional road trip Jackson takes during 9/11 with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando. “I think outrage is good, as long as it doesn’t get into a violent shouting match,”…

Good Times provided many people with something that was missing from television in the ’70s, but when the show ended its run, it didn’t quite give fans closure. And that’s something the original cast (minus Esther Rolle, who has since died) wants to provide. BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ralph Carter and Ja’Net DuBois…

Nathan “Bodie” Barksdale lived the life that people spent hours in front of the television watching when HBO’s The Wire was on the air. The show, which ended its run in 2008, is still considered some of the best television ever made, even in its gritty depiction of drugs, gangs and the seedy side of…

To be fair, it was black Americans back in the 1990s who had President Bill Clinton walking around thinking he was the nation’s first black president. During a stump speech in Memphis, Tenn., for his wife Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Clinton touched on that idea when the congressman who introduced him did so by referencing…