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The Seattle Seahawks must have been feeling themselves after coming off their big win Sunday night—so much so that they thought they’d celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a memorable tweet. The football team chose to show MLK some love by tweeting a photo of Russell Wilson crying, and attaching an MLK quote to it.…

Nowadays, everybody and his mama have been using Kickstarter to fund their next big idea. Not only is it the average Joe hocking his wares on Kickstarter, but plenty of celebrities have re-emerged thanks to the generosity of strangers. Kickstarter has become the Internet’s version of panhandling. Many Kickstarters have been successful, but so many…

Bill Cosby hasn’t lost all his fans amid the recent allegations of sexual assault and drugging by more than 20 women. Many of his fans are either reading this site or attended his most recent show in Turlock, Calif. According to the Modesto Bee, only one protester was outside the Turlock Community Center, and when…

Over the weekend, the much-anticipated Whitney Houston biopic aired on the Lifetime network. Whitney, which chronicled the romance between Houston and her then-husband, Bobby Brown, was directed by Angela Bassett and placed her in the director’s seat for the first time. Although the show received its fair share of kudos as well as complaints as…

Tonight, Oprah Winfrey’s OWN channel will air the second of Bill Duke’s documentaries on colorism. As a follow-up to Dark Girls, Light Girls takes a look at colorism from the perspective of light-skinned women. One celebrity sharing her story about how colorism affected her life is the estranged wife of Wiz Khalifa, model Amber Rose.…

If Bill Cosby ever planned on bringing another sitcom to television, he can cross NBC off as a potential network. According to the Associated Press, during a question-and-answer session at the Television Critics Association annual conference, NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt was asked if it was true that Cosby would never have another opportunity on…

Only weeks after being admitted to a hospital, boxing legend Muhammad Ali returned to the hospital Thursday night. Ali was hospitalized last month because of a severe urinary tract infection, and now he has been readmitted for follow-up care, according to the Associated Press. Ali’s spokesman Bob Gunnell hopes that the former boxing champ will…

One of everyone’s favorite Justice League heroines is finally getting her shine. Vixen is Mari McCabe, the superhero with a magical Tantu Totem, which she uses to adopt the abilities of animals. Mari, who is originally from Africa, was left an orphan after her parents were killed. Mari inherited the family’s totem, and as Vixen,…

Spike Lee isn’t mincing his words when it comes to Selma’s being snubbed by the Oscars. Lee simply stated “F—k ’em” during an interview with the Daily Beast. Like most people, Lee said he wasn’t surprised that the Oscars snubbed the film in categories for which everyone assumed it would have been nominated. Selma, which…

Chris Brown’s new year is off to a bumpy start because of his inability to follow directions. On Thursday a Los Angeles County judge revoked his probation stemming from his 2009 Rihanna assault case. Brown’s probation was revoked because he did not receive permission to travel for a concert, and the judge also expressed concern…