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We know that Valentine’s Day isn’t for a few weeks, but when a man proclaims that he’s “found the absolute, unequivocally right person for me,” that ought to get some attention. Especially if that man is BET co-founder Bob Johnson, the first African-American billionaire. Johnson has become engaged to Lauren Wooden, a 36-year-old doctoral student.…

MTV plays too much. There’s a photo up on the network’s Instagram account that photoshopped a photo of Michelle Obama into a Destiny’s Child photo. The first lady replaces Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams. “Michelle was always my favorite Destiny’s Child,” the caption reads. The post originally appeared on the Instagram page for SaintHoax—a self-described…

Mara Brock Akil’s interview during Chicago Ideas Week, recently posted to YouTube, began pretty normally. She described how she got her start in screenwriting. Akil, a The Root 100 honoree and the mastermind behind hit TV shows like Girlfriends, The Game and Being Mary Jane, went to journalism school but soon found that she wanted…

Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA had some interesting thoughts to share during a recent interview on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect. The rapper-director spoke on everything from today’s political climate to the much-talked-about topic of the Black Lives Matter movement and law enforcement. But it’s his comments about BLM and law enforcement that have some people shaking…

Janet Jackson has responded to rumors that she’s undergoing procedures to see if she has throat cancer. The singer posted on Twitter late Wednesday night, in true Janet fashion, about the rumors, which have been circulating over the last couple of days. Jackson, 49, posted a short, lyric video featuring her song “The Great Forever,”…

Sometimes, all it takes is one word to make you burst into laughter. And for one little baby who’s gone viral, the word is “donkey.” America’s Funniest Home Videos’ YouTube channel posted a video of a mother teaching her baby the names of animals, using flash cards. Every time the mother flashed the “donkey” card,…

Rapper Lil Boosie says he has a new outlook on life after recovering from surgery that removed half of one kidney. This past November, the rapper was diagnosed with kidney cancer, and he reached out to his fans for prayers. Now, just one month after his surgery, he’s speaking out, not only about his diagnosis, but…

Actress Thandie Newton was shocked and dismayed when she happened upon an offensive display at a Starbucks located in the Soho section of London. Sitting on the counter was a statue of a little black boy, dressed in a loincloth and holding a basket of coffee beans. The actress immediately tweeted the Starbucks corporate account…

Janet Jackson is reportedly getting tests done to determine if she has throat cancer, Yahoo! reports. Remember that Jackson recently postponed her Unbreakable World Tour and put out a statement in October saying that she had to rest her vocal cords. Then, in December, she posted this on Facebook: “I need you to know, I…

There are a few things that are very, very promising about this new musical series The Get Down, which will chronicle the goings-on of a group of South Bronx teenagers in 1970s New York City as they dabble in the elements that gave birth to hip-hop. One, it’s an original series of Netflix—the same online video…