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Some may say that taking on any role in a live television version of a classic musical is courageous in itself, but as The Wiz Live! stocks up on star power as casting continues, David Alan Grier has been tapped to play the not-so-courageous Cowardly Lion. Grier, who has three Tony nominations under his belt, is…

Sophia Eggleston of Detroit thinks the similarities between herself and Empire’s Cookie Lyon are too strong to be a coincidence, so she’s suing the show’s creators for $300 million, the New York Post reports.  Eggleston claims that she wrote a book about her life as a “drug kingpin” and went to Los Angeles and hand-delivered…

The sad thing about it is that I know a bunch of women—including myself—who turn up, and I mean turn up, during that specific part of the diss record “Back to Back.” The part when Toronto rapper Drake screams, “Shout to all my boss bitches wifin’ [n—gas]/Make sure you hit ’em with the prenup!”  He’s…

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse. First Bill Cosby. Then Hulk Hogan. And Roddy Piper. It’s been a rough year for childhood nostalgia. Now this. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have called it quits! In separate statements, Kermit and Miss Piggy stated that they’ve amicably decided to part ways. https://twitter.com/RealMissPiggy/status/628621787979489280https://twitter.com/KermitTheFrog/status/628621309841416192 See,…

The Drake vs. Meek Mill beef seemed to reach an all-time high at the OVO Fest Monday night in Toronto. Drake performed both of his diss records aimed at Meek during Monday’s OVO Fest while a bunch of memes mocking the Philly rapper played on a loop behind him on a jumbo screen. But it’s…

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama turned 54 years old. Needless to say, there’s a little more gray in his hair, and he’s probably a little wiser since his first election, but there’s one thing that hasn’t changed, and that’s his sense of humor. President Obama has a knack for delivering jokes, and every year it’s…

Since the accusations of drugging and rape that have surrounded Bill Cosby over the last year, many have questioned not only Cosby’s legacy but also the legacy of The Cosby Show. There’s no doubting that the series has been tarnished after over 40 women have accused the show’s creator of drugging and sexual assault. And…

It seems as if every couple of months, divorce rumors circulate when it comes to Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. One has to wonder why everyone is waiting for the demise of a marriage that has given the world Willow and Jaden. The Smiths have been married 17 years, and like clockwork, gossip sites reported…

A few comedians have gotten into trouble while joking about how they’d be terribly disappointed if they ever found out that their son was gay. People accused them of being homophobic and, at times, promoting violence against gay people. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Kevin Hart talked about a similar joke he tells…

Allure magazine is a beauty publication mainly targeting young white women. So I’m going to break from the chorus of individuals calling foul on how the magazine featured a white woman in an Afro tutorial. But just a little bit.  The tutorial appeared in the magazine’s August 2015 issue. Actress Marissa Neitling—a white woman with…