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President Barack Obama held an in-depth press conference Wednesday on his recent Iran deal, and journalist April Ryan took the opportunity to question the president about the Bill Cosby scandal, asking if Obama would revoke the embattled comedian’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, presented to him in 2002. Many people would like to see the medal that…

Chris Brown just experienced a terrible ordeal: His Los Angeles-area mansion was looted in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, but it was his aunt who came face-to-face with the three burglars, the New York Daily News reports. According to police, three armed black men wearing bandannas over their faces made their way into Brown’s…

It’s just not a good look—especially for Hot 97, of all stations. It was the first urban New York City radio station and retains its popular tagline, “Where Hip Hop Lives.” So that someone at the station—presumably radio anchor Ebro—fixed his fingers (or told a lowly intern) to tweet out an inquiry asking folks whether…

It was 1989, and a young Michelle Robinson was tasked with showing a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed law student the ropes at Sidley Austin, a white-shoe law firm in Chicago. He had a funny name: Barack Obama. He ended up asking her out, taking her for ice cream on one date and then to see Spike Lee’s…

Baby hair used to be a thing back in the day. Your mother would take a brush and make sure the baby hairs were nice and neat. But eventually, unlike Chilli from TLC, you grew out of your baby-hair phase. Which was probably around the same time you discovered bangs. What good was baby hair…

Et tu, Whoopi Goldberg? Goldberg is now among the latest celebrities to come to their senses when it comes to defending Bill Cosby. Goldberg, who has made a habit of defending abusers, is finally realizing that she may have jumped to Cosby’s defense too fast. During Tuesday’s episode of The View, Goldberg sat down with…

Remember fried bologna sandwiches? Or even your mother warning you that you better be in the house before the street lights come on? For me as a black kid, there were just certain things that were a given in my area when I was growing up. You knew if you took $1 to the corner…

Nick Gordon was walking out of a Starbucks Sunday, holding a Frappuccino in one hand, when a $10 million civil compaint levied against him was shoved into his free hand, the New York Daily News reports. Gordon was officially served with the lawsuit that Bobbi Kristina Brown’s court-appointed representative filed against him in June.  In…

He was the dude on The Cosby Show whom Denise (played by Lisa Bonet) brought home and introduced to Dr. and Mrs. Cosby as her husband: Lt. Martin Kendall. The actor Joseph C. Phillips, now 53, wrote a lengthy post on his blog about how, although he has always idolized Bill Cosby, he has since…

Although Future didn’t just come out and start blabbering about his sex life with Ciara, he didn’t exactly bite his tongue, either. The rapper was prompted by a question posed to him during an interview with HuffPost Live, about whether he and Ciara waited for some time to have sex. And that question was prompted…