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Wendy Williams sure can dish it out, but in her defense, she’s always been open about her own skeletons: her addiction to crack cocaine back in the ’90s, her ongoing battle with weight loss, her two miscarriages and her husband’s infidelities. That kind of transparency and honesty didn’t stop Monday during the season 7 debut…

Toni Braxton felt guilty for being the only one of her four sisters to be given a recording contract to become a solo artist. She went bankrupt—twice—and was diagnosed with lupus, her son was diagnosed with autism, and she got a divorce and had a hard time resuscitating her career after her ’90s heyday. We’ll…

In issue No. 44 of DC Comics’ Batman, the story reads like a ripped-from-the-headlines issue. Lead writer Scott Snyder wanted to address today’s issues, which include police brutality as well as gentrification. The issue mixes in the real-life events of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin. In the comic, Gotham Police Officer Ned Howler…

The success of Straight Outta Compton has been nothing but phenomenal, and now Universal Pictures is mulling over the idea of a Def Jam biopic. According to Deadline, the movie studio wants to dive into the history of Def Jam Recordings and its co-founder Russell Simmons. Simmons can by all means be considered the godfather…

There’s no doubt that after Serena Williams lost during the U.S. Open, she wasn’t in the best of spirits. Although Williams is a tennis-racket-wielding phenomenon on the court, she’s still human. “I was really, really bummed out,” Williams, 33, told USA Today. “I played the best I can play and she’s [Roberta Vinci] never played…

The Worst-Reported Stories About Detroit The Toronto Star made this video in December to accompany a story about longtime Detroiters helping to revitalize their city. News reports neglect such residents in favor of stories about white newcomers, panelists said Saturday at a Detroit conference organized by Unity: Journalists for Diversity. Renewal Underway and Whites Get…

BET is partnering with Black&Sexy TV—an online content provider commonly referred to as the “Black Netflix”—to begin airing three of its Web series on the cable network, Variety reports.  This is a big win for boutique and independent content providers on the Web. Companies like Black&Sexy TV cater to viewers who are willing to pay a…

In interview after interview promoting his Straight Outta Compton film, rapper, actor and producer Ice Cube has been adamant about what the true essence of hip-hop is: It is an art form that describes the times we live in—good and bad. It’s not an outlet that promotes or glorifies violence. He demonstrated that Saturday night…

Seems like it was just yesterday that Malia Obama was the precocious, wide-eyed eldest child of Barack and Michelle Obama, standing onstage with them in Chicago’s Grant Park in 2008 and waving to the crowd gleefully because her father had just been elected the first African-American president of the United States.  Now she’s college-bound. She’s…

James Corden, host of The Late Late Show, has had many people in the passenger seat of his car for “carpool karaoke,” from Mariah Carey to Jennifer Hudson and even Justin Bieber. But on Monday night’s show, Corden had one of the greatest singers and musicians of our time: Stevie Wonder! If you’re not familiar,…