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Every fall for the last several years, a little bit of the world has been destroyed with one of the greatest tragedies known to mankind and food: pumpkin-spice everything. I can’t even figure out who to blame. Is it Starbucks, with those pumpkin-spice lattes that women consume before heading to yoga class? Or is it…

Is Apple Music marketing directly to black people or what? During Sunday night’s Emmy Awards show on Fox, Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington and Mary J. Blige appeared in a new commercial promoting Apple Music’s online streaming service. There were several, um—how should we say?—cultural clues that had my around-the-way, black-girl self feeling all nostalgic,…

Sometimes you’re better off keeping those tweets right in your head, and not even spending the time to type out 140 characters that will end up embarrassing you in the end. And General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn learned that lesson Sunday night. During Viola Davis’ acceptance speech after becoming the first black woman to win…

Patti LaBelle isn’t one to mess with when it comes to her live shows. And one fan surely got more than he expected when he tried to pull a fast one onstage. On Friday night, LaBelle was performing at the Hard Rock Casino in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, and during “Lady Marmalade,”…

It was Viola Davis’ night, and the rest of the nominees in the Emmy category for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series were along for the ride. Davis, who was joined by Taraji P. Henson in the same category, won for her role on How to Get Away With Murder. During Davis’ emotional acceptance speech, her…

Denzel Washington is putting on his producer hat and has inked a deal with HBO to bring a set of 10 plays by playwright August Wilson—collectively known as the Pittsburgh Cycle or Century Cycle—to television. Washington said so during a live stream with Todd Boyd from the University of Southern California Thursday night, Shadow and Act…

An “Aaliyah” perfume is being released. This is huge because it’s one of a handful of projects that the Aaliyah estate—spearheaded by her mother, Diane Haughton, and her brother, Rashad Haughton—has participated in and OK’d.  The perfume is being released by the fragrance company Xyrena. A description of the project on the company’s website says…

Well, who knew that T.I. was also critical of how Iggy Azalea handled the “cultural appropriation” firestorm that she’s been at the center of for the past several months? Social media reactions to Iggy’s music and success—from celebrities like Azealia Banks and Q-Tip, too—have converged on the idea that Iggy is blackfacing her way through…

Earlier this summer, Kyemah McEntyre stunned the world with her amazingly designed prom dress. The East Orange, N.J., native’s dress literally was the talk of social media. The dress she designed paid homage to African culture and put McEntyre’s design skills on display. On Thursday, McEntyre appeared on Tyra Banks’ FABLife talk show and received…

Lupita Nyong’o isn’t just a smart and talented actress; she’s also become a fashion icon. So much so, she’s made Vogue’s cover for the second time. Nyong’o, who makes Brooklyn, N.Y., her home, graces the cover in an amazing dress by Valentino Haute Couture. In the cover story, written by Vogue’s Plum Sykes, Nyong’o shares some…