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Well, well, well. Little Ms. Taylor Swift has learned the art of shade.   It all started with a lyric from Kanye West’s song “Famous” that’s on his new album, The Life of Pablo.  “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous,” West rapped. He was referring to…

In 2013 the NFL settled a lawsuit with former football players in regards to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, otherwise known as CTE. CTE is a progressive degenerative disease that afflicts the brains of people who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Most recently it’s been the subject of discussion about football players. But there’s…

Manny Pacquiao is trying his hands at politics during a run for a Senate seat as a conservative in the Philippines. Pacquiao, who has made homophobic comments in the past, doubled down on them during a recent interview. “Have you seen any animal having male-to-male or female-to-female relations?” Pacquiao asked in a video released on a Philippines…

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia—a relentless conservative if ever there was one—made his journey home Saturday morning, enabling President Obama to appoint yet another judge to the highest court in our land. If the Republican-controlled Congress doesn’t bottle-neck it, it will be Obama’s third appointment. Democrats, liberals and black Americans on social media reacted to…

VH1 knows a winner when it sees it, and when the network’s hip-hop TV drama The Breaks premiered in January, it was a ratings and social media success.  The movie was based on Dan Charnas’ best-selling book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. After a finally tally, it was rated as the No.…

Devon Franklin and wife Meagan Good spent their Valentine’s Day at One Church in Los Angeles to promote their book The Wait, and to discuss how they coped with celibacy while dating.  But what Franklin wasn’t going to deal with during the question-and-answer portion of the service was anyone criticizing his wife because of her…

On Monday the New Yorker unveiled its cover for the Feb. 22 issue, which goes on sale Tuesday. The issue celebrates the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and Black History Month. The cover story follows the history of the center, which is the research branch of the New York Public Library.…

During Beyoncé’s much-talked-about Super Bowl perfomance, the Houston singer evoked images of the Black Panthers. But how much does the public know about the group that revolutionized revolution? On Tuesday night, PBS will air Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, about the group that was founded 50 years ago by Huey P. Newton…

There’s nothing like becoming hands-on when it comes to your work. WTKR’s Laila Muhammad was just having fun while reporting on how viral sensations are made when she became one herself. Muhammad had set out to explain how people go viral and can earn money off their viral videos. To show how easy it was…

Stevie Wonder’s touching tribute to Maurice White during Monday night’s Grammy Awards wasn’t the only appearance he made during the show. Wonder was tasked with presenting the award for Song of the Year, and he used the opportunity to drive home a point about inclusiveness. As Wonder opened the envelope to call out the winner,…