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Is there anything Idris Elba can’t do—and while looking good, at that? Elba, who has an affinity for fast cars, recently broke a speed record on a beach in Wales. Elba was behind the wheel of a Bentley Continental GT Speed when he broke the “flying mile” speed record, according to CNN. The flying mile…

Kelly Booker has no idea whether his dog was stolen or ran away four years ago on the Fourth of July, but the Denver man is happy to have his 9-year-old shih tzu, Lily, home. Lily was found in Elgin, Ill., nowhere near her Denver home. Booker says the last time he saw his dog…

They say the bigger they are, they harder they fall, and if you’re a 7-footer like Shaquille O’Neal, falling doesn’t seem like it’s fun. During a recent episode of Inside the NBA, O’Neal took a tumble after running in the studio. Apparently the former NBA center got all twisted up in a cord and took a…

Belinda Hunt-Smith, 41, from Pontiac, Mich., is attending the prom on Friday, and she’s not going as a chaperone. Back when Hunt-Smith was a high school student, she wasn’t able to attend her prom because she couldn’t afford to buy a dress or to get her hair done. “It tore me up inside because I…

Last year B. Smith revealed to the world her battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The former model, TV host and restaurateur who was once hailed as a “Renaissance woman” by the New York Times first noticed symptoms five years ago. She was diagnosed after doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City performed a scan and…

As the world celebrates Mother’s Day on Sunday, Time magazine took a different approach to the holiday and asked mothers to pen letters to their children. Tina Knowles Lawson, who is still living the newlywed life, penned a touching letter not only to Solange and Beyoncé but also to her niece Angie Beyince and Kelly Rowland,…

In April, during the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, state trooper Sgt. Billy L. Spears was reprimanded by the Texas Department of Public Safety and forced to attend counseling after posing in a photo with Snoop Dogg. DPS said that the photo reflected poorly on the agency. The photo in question was uploaded by Snoop…

McDonald’s is undergoing a rebranding spree, since its financials have looked a bit bleak lately. First it added a new way to order your high-calorie-count Extra Value Meals. Then it put back on the menu its version of Angus-beef burgers. And now it’s given the Hamburglar a face-lift. A hipster face-lift. Look at your old…

Pushing the comedy envelope is something that Key & Peele have been doing on their show since it premiered on Comedy Central in 2012. And as a teaser for their upcoming season, which starts July 8, the comedy duo posted a special sketch called “Negrotown.” As a response to the ongoing plague of black people…

Television’s Shonda Rhimes is joining forces with writer-director Dee Rees for an FX series based on Isabel Wilkerson’s 2010 book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The book chronicles the migration of 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and Western…