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As Kobe Bryant began preparations for his 20th season in the NBA, he left a preseason game two weeks ago and rushed to a Las Vegas hospital to be by the side of his former teammate Lamar Odom, who was admitted after a drug overdose. With the Los Angeles Lakers season now under way, Bryant spoke…

George Lucas is shelling out millions to make sure the University of Southern California’s film school has a commitment to diversity. The Star Wars creator’s family foundation is donating $10 million, the largest donation the School of Cinematic Arts has received, so that the USC film school can recruit and support black and Hispanic students…

I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to the plethora of petitions that seem to surface daily on the Internet. And it’s not hard to see that some are just fluff attention grabbers, while others, although well-meaning, may have failed in their execution. Then there are those that actually garner enough attention to…

One thing’s for sure, Mike Tyson can take a joke. And he proved that on Monday night’s The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.  Last week the Roots’ Questlove posted a meme on his Instagram account referencing Drake’s song “Hotline Bling,” but the meme had a photo of Tyson with the lyrics of the song written the…

First she’s answering questions during an interview (something she hasn’t done in nearly two years), and now Beyoncé will be appearing on Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle to compete against actor Channing Tatum. Beyoncé seems to be coming out of her self-imposed exile. Yep, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Beyoncé will be showing off her…

Lionel Richie was apparently tickled by a short video that combines his “Hello” video with Adele’s new video for her single by the same name. Their songs were released more than 20 years apart, but some of the visuals from both videos are similar. In the video, an Instagram user edited the snippet in such…

Bobby Shmurda wants to forewarn young people who are running around engaging in illegal behavior about what they’ll likely face if caught.  Shmurda called into New York City’s Hot 97 radio station from jail and talked about how the criminal-justice system has little tolerance for young adults like himself.  “All y’all little kids running around…

Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez met more than five years ago on the set of a movie and announced their engagement in 2012. In 2013 the couple married quietly in France, and a couple of months later their son Maceo was born. But now, it seems, the marriage is ending. According to TMZ, Berry has filed…

A documentary about the life of Maya Angelou has been in the works for quite some time, but when the world lost one of its favorite poets last year, the creators behind the documentary felt it was time to get it finished. During the last four years of Angelou’s life, she was working on the…

Don Lemon is forever on the wrong side of everything. Whether he’s questioning the Black Lives Matter movement, asking people if they’re offended by the n-word or stealing the spotlight from a llama, CNN’s anchor seems to effortlessly make asinine statements. Monday night, Lemon was joined by former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin in a discussion…