Entertainment

Good news. We’ll learn the date of the season 2 premiere of Orange Is the New Black really, really soon, according to several vague media reports. While you wait, I suggest you satisfy your cravings by stalking Danielle Brooks on Instagram. It should be said here that all of the OITNB cast members are ridiculously…

The tables have turned! In case you missed it, Atlanta rapper Rawcus dropped an amazing video for his song “White People Crazy.” It features adventurous white people participating in activities that Rawcus and most reasonable people would deem, well, crazy. (For real, though, why would a person choose to put their hand, a hand we…

Rapper Juicy J, who recorded a really popular song about women who dance for money, just awarded 19-year-old biology major and single mother Zaire Holmes a $50,000 scholarship. Yea, Zaire! Holmes was the grand prize winner of Juicy J’s Video Contest scholarship, in which the rapper, in partnership with World Star Hip Hop, asked students to…

Twitter had mean, mean things to say about Gabourey Sidibe and the dress she wore to last night’s 71st Annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony. The American Horror Story actress walked the red carpet in a long, shimmery, short-sleeved cream number. And it was pretty. But it wasn’t the dress that body shamers hated. It was…

Daddy Doin’ Work blog founder Doyin Richards was shocked to learn that this photo he posted to his Twitter and Facebook pages was going viral. At Jezebel, Richards writes: At last check, the photo was shared over 4,800 times, received over 3,000 comments, and was liked over 190,000 times. The photo was also ‘borrowed’ by…

Spike Lee went to last night’s Knicks game looking and acting like somebody’s mama. This morning, @BigBlurr astutely pointed out Spike’s striking resemblance to Fresh Prince’s mom. You remember her from the opening theme song: Exactly. Spot on, and hilarious. And with all of that black-mama irritation in Spike’s wrists and elbows, Twitter couldn’t help…

Amiri Baraka, the legendary poet, playwright, activist, music critic and author, died on Thursday in New Jersey. He was 79 years old. Last month Baraka had suffered complications from surgery and was placed in intensive care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. A spokesman for his son—Newark, N.J., South Ward Councilman Ras Baraka—said…

If you spend any time in any natural-hair community anywhere on the Internet, then you’ve seen this photo of Riley from Houston. Basically, she’s an icon: She’s 3 years old now, and just as an enterprising person would do, she’s adding to her skill set. She’s no longer just a perfect baby model; she’s also…

The Huffington Post dug up @tinaturnerblog, an account that tweets the latest news and vintage photos of Tina Turner. And it’s amazing. Here’s a autographed photo of Tina with Mike: Here she is with David Bowie: Photos from her role in 1986’s Mad Max: Tina and Cher: And of course, the obligatory yet awe-inspiring leg collage:…

On Sunday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry doubled down on her apology to the Romneys for using their family photo in a segment of her “Look Back In Laughter” episode, which aired at the end of last month. In his defense of Harris-Perry (catch up on the entire brouhaha here), the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates referred to…