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In a week when magazine covers featuring black women—and starring the world’s worst Kerry Washington impersonator—went wrong, it was nice to see the leaked Lucky magazine cover featuring actress Lupita Nyong’o go right. Such natural lighting! A face that actually looks like her beautiful face! And so much excitement on social media. It’s such a…

For reasons not quite known, ex-Scandal star Columbus Short threatened to “murk”—aka murder—actor Jamie Foxx while in the middle of yet another alleged domestic violence blowup with an ex. According to TMZ, Short wilded out on his ex, fitness trainer to the stars Agostina Laneri, last week. After the incident, she got a restraining order…

On Wednesday, news spread far and wide that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs didn’t want his adopted son, Quincy, to appear on Fox’s hit show Empire because of a squabble over money and song rights. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Quincy Combs was offered a spot on Lee Daniels’ soap hip-hopera, but…

Actress Kerry Washington’s InStyle cover dropped Wednesday to the sound of head-scratching across social media. In the new March edition, the typically lovely Scandal star appeared a little different from how she normally looks, cried Twitter. Well, maybe more than a little different. Some woman pretending to be Kerry Washington is on the cover of…

It’s a conversation I’ve had several times with my 15-year-old son. It’s a conversation I wish I’d never had to have with my 15-year-old son. But after the deaths of so many unarmed black men, it’s now a prerequisite every time he leaves the house. Giving tips on how to interact with the police is…

In 2013 Bobbi Kristina Brown shocked the world when she announced that she was marrying Nick Gordon, the man her mother, Whitney Houston, had raised as her own son. Bobbi Kristina’s grandmother Cissy Houston and father, Bobby Brown, didn’t approve of the marriage, but Bobbi Kristina didn’t seem to care about the disapprovals. Now, just…

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was the talk of Twitter Tuesday night because of a painted portrait. The painting was tweeted by Louisiana blogger Lamar White Jr., who stated that it was the governor’s new official portrait. Immediately, the painting gained attention on social media because of the obvious difference in skin color: This is Bobby…

Don Lemon has been making a reputation for himself recently, and it’s not a good one. Some have referred to him as the worst journalist of all time. Others just publicly laugh at him on social media for tweeting things like this: https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/562407220617674752 In a world of anti-vaccination rhetoric and people sending their outbreak-monkey children…

Jimmy Fallon doesn’t hide the fact that he’s a fan of hip-hop and pop culture, so it makes complete sense that while The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is being taped in Los Angeles this week, he has paid homage to what’s considered one of the best black sitcoms. Fallon, and the Roots, flawlessly re-created the…

Last week, after Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive in a bathtub by her husband and a friend, cops said no drugs were found in her house. But according to family members, police did find drugs during a second search. TMZ, which first reported the story, said that family members told the site that cops didn’t…