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Around the holidays is when we typically see an uptick in crime not exclusive to robberies and theft. Over the past few decades we've seen more serious, heinous crimes including the murder of innocent people in callous ways. Mothers taken away from their children, party goers targeted by hate and average citizens preye...Read more...

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Nikki Haley has run out of excuses for her widely mocked response to a question about what caused the Civil War. So the Republican presidential candidate is going for a tried and true method for avoiding accusations of racism, I have a Black friend!

This year's 81st Golden Globe Awards ceremony may not look any different to viewers watching at home, but behind the scenes it's another story. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the notoriously small and scandal-plagued group that used to select the winners, has been disbanded in favor of a more racially and...Read more...

Updated as of 1/4/2024 at 10:00 a.m. ET

Our King of Pop, Michael Jackson is gone-but reportedly his 93-year-old mother Katherine Jackson is still very protective over how his estate makes money off his legacy and licensing his name. According to court documents obtained by Radar Online, the Jackson matriarch of the legendary family is asking Michael's...Read more...

When it comes to medical myths, Philly-based family physician Dr. Jen Caudle is known online for shedding light on popular misconceptions. The more than 224,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel and 162,000-plus followers on TikTok turn to Caudle to break down everything from the potential dangers of sea moss to what...Read more...

On Wednesday, court documents were unsealed (following a federal judge's ruling in December) that included more than 100 names allegedly connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It's a hefty read and features more than 900 pages of primarily unredacted documents. - Candace McDuffie Read MoreRead more...

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After losing his race for Kentucky Governor, former Attorney General Daniel Cameron is moving on to the most predictable career pivot possible for a Black conservative. You guessed it - he's waging a war on wokeness at the 1792 Exchange.

A 20-year-old Florida man has just been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison after crafting a plot to kill his girlfriend. Allegedly, he falsely accused her of giving him an STD. If you thought that was bad, just wait until you get to the part where his mother was in on the hit.Read more...

Victoria Monet may be a new face in music to some, but she's already a certified legend-and just got a major cosign from fellow legend Anita Baker.Read more...

Katt William's tell-all interview with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shay Shay" has taken over social media. Every day people are pulling out new tidbits from the explosive two-hour conversation with the NFL Hall of Famer.Read more...

Taraji P. Henson continues to discuss her Hollywood struggles as a Black actress very openly. In a new interview with The New York Times, the 53-year-old Oscar-nominated actress talks about her illustrious career and how she wants longevity and work that matters."Read more...

A fight on the SEPTA platform in Philadelphia turned fatal as one person ended up falling onto the train tracks just milliseconds before the train approached the station.

The main reason we're still talking about Katt Williams' nearly three-hour interview with Shannon Sharpe for his Club Shay Shay podcast days later is that there's so much material to sift through. Even we did the best that we could.Read more...

In a recent interview with The Root, Grammy nominated artist Victoria Monet said she feels that music labels and copyright laws are a bit behind" when it comes to protecting artists from artificial intelligence (AI) being used to recreate their likeness.

Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black? Bill Ackman, the conservative billionaire who viciously called for Harvard's Claudine Gay to be fired, has a wife who was accused of the very same plagiarism allegations that eventually costed Gay her job.Read more...

On Wednesday, court documents were unsealed (following a federal judge's ruling in December) that included more than 100 names allegedly connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It's a hefty read and features more than 900 pages of primarily unredacted documents.Read more...

On Jan. 8, 21 days after Jonathan Majors' career was flushed down the toilet by way of a guilty assault verdict, his first post-conviction interview will air on ABC.Read more...

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday - to the disappointment of many who lauded her appointment as the first Black president as a major achievement. For weeks, accusations of plagiarism plagued Gay. But many Black scholars argued that her real crime was being a Black woman in a...Read more...

Don't play with Whoopi Goldberg. From her beginnings as a stand up comedian to Oscar-winning movie star, and now co-host of The View," Goldberg deserves her flowers. She has also always been forthright about what she likes and what she loves to do in her personal life: nothing.

Earlier this week, Texas mourned the loss of civil rights icon and political trailblazer, former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. But her passing has been made all the more tragic with this latest allegation from her family.Read more...

After the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, studio release schedules got a little hectic. Major films that were expected last year, like Dune: Part 2, got pushed back to 2024 instead. Which means that this year, the film calendar is actually pretty packed. We've got classic January horror movies like Night Swim,...Read more...

What's really going on with Auntie Oprah Winfrey as of late?Read more...

Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google's years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome forever-sort of.Read more...

Sofia may have had to fight all her life, but in the newest movie musical adaptation of The Color Purple," star Danielle Brooks recently shared how she had to fight through pain to bring her character to life.

The legendary rapper Chuck D took to X/Twitter on Thursday morning to defend Queen of Pop Madonna against ageism. The 63-year-old rapper had a word or two for the trolls criticizing the 65-year-old Material Girl" singer's dancing abilities at her age.Read more...

Very few stars had a more tumultuous 2023 than Keke Palmer. Most of her headline-grabbing moments stemmed from her toxic relationship with Darius Jackson. It started back in July when he publicly criticized her outfit at Usher's Vegas show. This led to a Black Twitter dragging for him, the likes of which we've rarely...Read more...

No pants? No problem. Kanye West took to his Instagram (can you believe that he's back on there?) to post three eyebrow-raising pictures of his wife, Bianca Censori, with teeny pieces of fabric that can barely be considered clothing. He captioned the post with, No pants this year."

Former ESPN host Sage Steele is running her ignorant mouth again-only this time it's about the legendary civil rights leader Al Sharpton. Following the shocking resignation of Harvard University's first Black president, Claudine Gay, Sharpton sounded off via X/Twitter.

The downfall of former Harvard University President Claudine Gay has sparked more articles and think-pieces than we could ever attempt to list off. But on Wednesday, we heard about what went down and more importantly what's to come from Gay herself. And let's just say it was illuminating.

Parents Yolanda Hunter and Herman Coleman are on the run. Just before Christmas Day, Mississippi police responded to a call from a man who found the body of an infant, unresponsive, on his doorstep. Now the cops have named the boy's mother, Hunter, and boyfriend, Coleman, as suspects in his death.

Over the years, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has appeared in some of our favorite movies and TV series as the strong Black mother, cool auntie or even Black mo. Her Oscar nomination for King Richard" and roles in critically acclaimed films Origin" and The Color Purple" makes it seem like she's an overnight success,...Read more...

24 hours since Katt William's explosive interview on Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay" podcast set the social media streets on fire on Wednesday, reactions have been pouring in at monumental levels.Read more...

In a viral video posted on TikTok, tennis icon Serena Williams pulled off her wig while cradling her newborn baby, Adira, and it was a moment of relief felt by Black women around the world. That sigh of relief is exactly how we want all Black women moving in 2024 , releasing all of the uncomfortable things in the way...Read more...

Katt Williams became a living comedy legend - as well as one of the most controversial comedians in history - in part because of his scorched-earth honesty. But he outdid himself on the newest episode of Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay" podcast, which dropped Wednesday.Read more...

There's a misconception about Black actors that when you get to a certain level of success, the disrespectful microaggressions become more rare or even stop happening altogether. Unfortunately, that's just not true, as acclaimed actor Jeffrey Wright recently revealed in a discussion with his American Fiction" costars...Read more...

Is Jamie Foxx in the illuminati? Comedian Katt Williams seems to think so - or at least that's been a running joke on his The Dark Matter tour, featuring legendary comedians Mark Curry, Tommy Davidson, Red Grant and more.Read more...

Losing weight and keeping it off is hard enough. But the pressure can be even more intense when you're in the public eye, and everyone is counting the pounds and keeping track of your routine.

The resignation of Harvard's first Black president Claudine Gay on Tuesday continues to have commentary from the conservative peanut gallery. This time, billionaire and Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman has shared his opinion-and of course it's wrong and offensive as hell.Read more...

We're fascinated by anything Jordan Peele does. He always has an interesting story to tell in a completely fresh, unexpected way. Alongside Keegan Michael Key, Key & Peele" was one of the most inventive sketch comedy series of all time.Read more...

In his new special The Dreamer," Dave Chappelle jokes that he's moving on from his ongoing fight with the transgender community to do handicapped jokes," because I love punching down." Seems weird that a comedy legend doesn't know the difference between punching down" and making actual jokes, but here we are.

Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix comedy special, The Dreamer," aired Sunday on the streaming giant and was controversial for several reasons. The star made jokes about the trans and disabled community. Additionally, Chappelle came for Lil Nas X. But, of course, Nas X was not going to let that happen without responding.Read more...

Claudine Gay, Harvard University's first Black president, has resigned after only six months in the position. Initially, she was able to survive her response to the Israel-Hamas War and her congressional testimony last month. However, it was alleged evidence of plagiarism in her earlier academic work that proved to be...Read more...

I'm a lifelong Hip-Hop fan and I can't name one Boosie BadAzz track. But I can rattle off at least three remarkably dumb things the rapper has said or tweeted throughout the last few years.Read more...

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay, the first Black person to lead the prestigious university, resigned on Tuesday amid allegations of plagiarism. Gay came under fire in early December after a hearing on antisemitism pushed her into the crosshairs of conservative media and commentators - who called her an...Read more...

The family of Janard Geffrard, a Florida inmate who was beaten to death by his cellmate, is asking for answers as to why the beating went so long without intervention from deputies.

Whew! We are only a few days into 2024, and tea just keeps on spilling in the entertainment industry. The latest comes from Ziya Abashae, the alleged ex-girlfriend of podcaster and internet personality DJ Akademiks, who took to social media to expose and accuse him of sexual assault. But, that's not all the whole...Read more...