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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…

There is very little that New Yorkers on a subway train in the middle of the day are fazed by. That includes a talented singer singing at the top of her lungs. R&B singer, and now Broadway actress, Brandy Norwood took a subway ride in disguise and sang her heart out, but no one paid…

Bravo’s Andy Cohen is feeling the heat on social media after Sunday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live. Cohen, whose guests included Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox and Vogue Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley, felt it was appropriate to give Amandla Stenberg the label “Jackhole of the Day” after the Hunger Games star…

Riley Curry took the NBA semifinals by storm with her precociousness and spunky 2-year-old personality, and now she’s about to tackle an even bigger job: big sister. Riley’s parents—NBA star Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha—are celebrating the arrival of their newest addition. Ayesha Curry gave birth to a 6-pound, 1-ounce baby girl named Ryan Carson on…

Chuck D got on Twitter Sunday and articulated the argument that’s been had in many Facebook news feeds and Twitter timelines since the Bill Cosby sexual assault stories broke: Do we throw away the baby with the bathwater when talking about Bill Cosby, his contributions to American culture and the allegations? The Public Enemy rapper…

Two rappers affiliated with famous figures in hip-hop were killed over the weekend. Hussein Fatal, a member of Tupac Shakur’s rap group the Outlawz, died Saturday in a car accident, the New York Daily News reports, although it has not yet been announced where the accident took place. Fatal’s death was confirmed by the Outlawz’…

Boris Kodjoe opened the door and stuck his head into Nicole Ari Parker’s trailer while they were both on the set of Soul Food back in the day, and said, “You know we’re going to get married and have kids right?” and then left. Parker remembered how she grinned, and thought to herself: “Yeah, he’s right.” She confessed during an interview with Essence…

“More money, more problems” is the saying, and it seems that 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, has some explaining to do when it comes to where his dollars disappeared to. According to the Wall Street Journal, the man once dubbed the “richest rapper in the world” filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. “In court papers filed in…

This spring, Amandla Stenberg, star of The Hunger Games, made headlines when a school project about appropriation went viral. In the video “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” Stenberg called out white people who appropriate black culture. “In the 2010s, pop stars and icons adopted black culture as a way of being edgy and gaining attention,” Stenberg…