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Folks are known for using the Internet as a source of comic relief — but when it comes to viral content, Black Twitter went all in with the funny this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNJuPrQukQ From January to December, these were hands down the best Black Twitter videos of 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6FsToW2w4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORiIuHGY98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13d6xvM5esw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzEG_wfgmfk https://twitter.com/officialSmith_/status/925563045769703424 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1sY0UZEqYg https://twitter.com/nocoastkent/status/899771129333788672 https://www.instagram.com/p/BcLXvY8heLp/?taken-by=princejdc […]
After 21 years as President of BET, Debra Lee is stepping down and will no longer handle day-to-day operations at the network, Black Enterprise reports. Scott M. Mills will take her place while Lee will serve as his advisor and “chairman and CEO of the network, focusing on cultivating the company’s relationships with external stakeholders […]
The "Empire" actress and former NFL star Kelvin Hayden are going strong.
Ed Lee, mayor of Sn Francisco, California suddently passed away Tuesday morning. According to former mayor Willie Wilson, Lee suffered Cardiac Arrest. Lee became the city’s first Asian-American mayor when he was named to serve out the remainder of Gavin Newsom’s term in Jan. 2011. He was re-elected in 2015. https://twitter.com/CBSSF/status/940536777894481921 A statement from the […]
Drew, real name Tequan Richmond, is all grown up now.
Via | HotNewHipHop Stream the deluxe edition of Chris Brown’s latest double album “Heartbreak On A Full Moon.” Over the past couple weeks, we’ve seen several artists release deluxe editions of their respective albums with new songs being added to it, including DRAM, Kodak Black, & Lil Uzi Vert being some of those artists, and […]
Via | LA Times Jada Pinkett Smith is not taking the omission of her film and its breakout star (Tiffany Haddish) from Monday’s Golden Globe nominations lightly. The “Girls Trip” star took to Twitter on Tuesday to voice her discontent, alleging that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. did not even watch the film. “I’m not […]
Kendrick Lamar recently did an interview with Howard Stern and they talked about his relationship to Dr. Dre, how Prince was almost on To Pimp a Butterfly, and a notable childhood memory. According to Kendrick, he saw aliens when he was a kid. “I’m going to stand my ground to this: Yes. I did. Nobody believed […]
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcpgCZOhTzO/?tagged=keatonjones Days after Keaton Jones’ mother was exposed holding a confederate flag in photos on her Facebook page, his jailed father, Shawn White, has been outed as a White supremacist. White’s Facebook page is littered with white and Aryan pride posts. White also has several troubling tattoos, including: a neck tattoo that reads “CWB,” (an […]
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After serving 11 months as the nation’s director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison through the Trump administration, Omarosa Manigault‘s duties have officially come to an end. According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Manigault’s resignation is effective Jan. 20, one year since Trump’s inauguration. But did the former Apprentice star […]
A New Orleans Saints season ticket holder is doing the most to show he's not particularly happy with players protesting police brutality and racial injustice in America