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Bobby Brown’s wife, Alicia Etheredge, suffered a seizure in a hotel room shortly after attending her stepdaughter Bobbi Kristina Brown’s funeral in an Atlanta suburb Saturday, TMZ reports.  Etheredge was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was eventually able to walk with a little assistance, a source told TMZ. Bobby Brown was by her…

It’s another demonstration of the ongoing love fest between first lady Michelle Obama and the first lady of pop music, Beyoncé. Obama released a video snippet on Instagram of an interview she did with rapper Wale during a college-preparation event at the White House a few weeks back. When Wale asked what advice Obama would…

Bill Cosby’s attorney Monique Pressley appeared on HuffPost Live Friday and did what she was hired to do: defend her client. She poked holes through the swarm of allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted more than two dozen women over the course of three decades.  Pressley scolded the media as being biased and wondered why, when…

Janet Jackson once talked about how she developed huge insecurities while working as a young actress on the set of Good Times, when she had her chest bound because she was growing breasts. That feeling—that she wasn’t good enough—stayed with her.  Earlier this week on The View, Raven-Symoné recalled something similar. She remembered how her weight…

You had to be living under a rock this week if you didn’t hear the sad story of Cecil, the lion in Zimbabwe who was lured out of his natural habitat, shot with an arrow and tracked for two days while he slowly died. Cecil was finally shot with a rifle, skinned and decapitated—a hunt…

For a young black athlete, hearing horror stories about what can happen if you blow through your million-dollar salary will probably resonate a lot better if the person dishing out the financial advice can attest to that reality firsthand.  That’s what the executives over at Morgan Stanley were probably thinking when they hired Antoine Walker,…

Lupita Nyong’o isn’t a stranger to the theatrical stage, but since she made her breakthrough debut in 12 Years a Slave, Hollywood productions have been her home. Nyong’o, who graduated from the Yale School of Drama, will make her New York stage debut this September in Eclipsed, a survival story set in postcolonial Africa. Nyong’o…

Chicago’s Oak Street Beach is a popular summer destination, but for one mother, it turned out to be a lesson in racism for her young children. Raquel Bolton posted a video on Facebook that shows a white woman calling her and her two children the n-word after her children, ages 4 and 8, accidentally splashed…

When you’re a small business trying to make ends meet on the e-commerce streets while designing and making your own products, it can be a slap in the face when larger e-commerce sites blatantly rip off your designs and make a killing by reselling them. This is exactly what popular jewelry designer Rachel Stewart says is…

This remake of Shaft should be good, if you think the ABC series Black-ish is comedic and cultural genius, as I do. That’s right; according to the Hollywood Reporter, the 1971 blaxploitation film is getting a reboot, and Kenya Barris, the force behind Black-ish, has been tapped to write the script. Reports say that Barris will infuse some…