Creflo Dollar says that his asking for his followers to help him purchase a $65 million dollar plane is part of the ‘Devil trying to discredit him.” In a sermon posted to the Dove channel on YouTube on Tuesday, Dollar says he never directly asked his congregation for money to buy the plane because he […]

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Video released by investigators that shows an undercover sheriff’s deputy allegedly buying drugs from a man later killed by a volunteer officer amounts to “character assassination,” a civil rights advocate said Wednesday. The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office released several video clips Tuesday that show a man allegedly selling drugs and talking […]

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Slight and slender at just 5-feet 8-inches and 145 pounds, 25-year-old Freddie Gray was a warm, funny, generous figure in Baltimore’s predominantly poor and African American Sandtown community, his friends and relatives said. The young man who died of traumatic spinal injury a week after his April 12 arrest used to give […]

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The road to her new documentary The London Sessions was one filled with scandal for Mary J. Blige. Reflecting on her tribulations, 44-year-old entertainer owned up to her accountability for all the turmoil that ranged from a major backlash for appearing in a Burger King commercial singing about “crispy chicken” to stories about financial impropriety on […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the death of another black man while in police custody sparked ongoing protests in a nearby city, the Senate on Wednesday prepared to discuss more widespread use of police body cameras. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., called for the body-camera hearings following the fatal shooting in North Charleston of a black man. […]

A business owner is insisting he isn’t racist, although the Confederate flags and nooses hung at his Discount Tree Service store tell a different story.…

Karrueche Tran is moving on with her life and focusing on her career after her split from Chris Brown, and she’s already getting an Emmy…

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Now this is how you make the First Lady’s day. It happened Wednesday at the White House during the annual “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” event when a young lady by the name of Anaya Brodie asked Michelle Obama her age. FLOTUS replied, “I’m 51.” Miss Brodie yelled back, “You look too […]

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It’s been some rough seas so far for Jay Z’s new streaming service Tidal. The mogul purchased the company from Swedish parent Aspiro for $56 million in January, believing music streaming is where the industry is headed. (Money generated from streaming shot up 39 percent last year, helping digital music match physical sales for the […]

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A historic win has led to a typical display of disrespect in the small town of Parma, Missouri. On Tuesday, former city clerk Tyus Byrd…

Wendy Williams looks simply amazing on the May issue of Ebony Magazine. Inside, the media mogul speaks on balancing her home life with a growing empire. Despite her…

Pineapple, pineapples, pineapples! Comedian Kevin Hart is famous for a story where he explains how the word “pineapples” would help him get out of a…