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Patti LaBelle caught some flak for insinuating that her sweet potato pies’ success was a result of her own hard work and not the hilarious viral video made by a YouTube food critic. During an interview with the Huffington Post, LaBelle backpedaled and reassured fans that she knew that she owed her pie’s success to James…

Spike Lee thinks that his new film, Chi-raq, is infectious and that it’ll inspire college students to withhold sex from their partners as a way to denounce sexual assault incidents on college campuses nationwide.  He described all of this during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.  “I think that a sex strike could really work…

Los Angeles Lakers fan or not. Kobe Bryant fan or not. Basketball fans as a whole—and even those of us who enjoy sports from a distance—bowed our heads respectfully and saluted Kobe Bryant on Sunday, when he released a beautiful poem on the Players’ Tribune announcing that he would be retiring from the game after this…

Ava DuVernay, the award-winning Hollywood director, is not known for biting her tongue, or holding back her Twitter fingers. She is outspoken about diversity, or the lack thereof, in Hollywood, telling The Huffington Post recently that too many films focus on the ”white, straight, male” paradigm. So it’s no surprise that she has opinions about…

The Rocky-revival film Creed made its box office debut over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to rave reviews in mainstream and social media. TheWrap reports that the film is expected to make up to $40 million, more than any of the six sequels in the 39-year-old Rocky franchise. The MGM/New Line Cinema drama, which stars Sylvester Stallone and…

In an apparent dream come true for James Wright, whose YouTube review of Patti LaBelle’s sweet potato pie went viral, he celebrated Thanksgiving Day and his birthday with the R&B diva at her home. In case you didn’t know, LaBelle can cook more than just pie. The holiday-birthday spread on Thursday included shrimp and lobster…

President Barack Obama clocked in some serious dad time with Sasha and Malia over the Thanksgiving holiday. The trio spent the day shopping on small business Saturday. During the annual event designed to promote holiday shopping at small businesses they shopped at Upshur Street Books in northwest Washington, the president tweeted. Enjoyed stopping by Upshur…

Lil Boosie revealed on Instagram Wednesday that he’s been diagnosed with kidney cancer. He took the post down, but a few outlets took a screenshot of the post. According to TMZ, the deleted post read: “I need all my fans to pray for me[.] [My] [d]octor just told me I have cancer on my kidneys.…

Has anyone ever tried to take your “black card” away when you didn’t know certain black pop-culture facts? For example, a co-worker recently told me she’s never watched The Five Heartbeats. I know someone else who’s never seen The Color Purple. Never had red Kool-Aid? Come on, son?! One company has made an interesting and…

Al Roker, like so many other black people in New York City, has beef with a New York City taxi driver who snubbed him last weekend. Roker says that the driver bypassed him to pick up a white customer, and now the taxi driver is speaking out. Mahabur Rahman is facing up to $1,350 in…