Too few members of minority groups are pursuing careers in U.S. medicine, resulting in a serious lack of diversity among general practitioners and specialty doctors,…

I’m appalled that 11 Black women – including an 83-year-old grandmother — were abruptly kicked off the luxurious Wine Train in Napa Valley, California for what train officials insist was an egregious railway offense: Laughing too loud. Imagine that? It’s the Wine Train — people drink wine, they laugh; it’s an activity designed for fun […]

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Empire’s Cookie Lyon will ride or die for her three sons Andre, Jamal and Hakeem – and the same goes for Taraji P. Henson when it comes to the actors who play the Lyon heirs, Trai Byers, Jussie Smollett and Bryshere “Yazz” Gray, respectively. “They are so sweet, my Jussie and my Yazz,” Henson said […]

Last week, Dr. Dre issued another apology regarding his past with assaulting woman. It was criticized like most public apologies are: Maybe it was just a publicity…

Whoopi Goldberg is set to produce a film about the life of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was murdered in 1955.

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Could Rachel Dolezal, the ex-NAACP leader who was ousted for pretending to be a Black woman for years, be pregnant?

Summer is coming to a close and much like the rest of us, celebrity families are taking in the last days of the season by…

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Billboard launched its first annual Hot 100 Festival yesterday, which took place at Jones Beach in New York, and Lil Wayne was one of the…

Images of Twitty in court went viral when it was noted that the gorgeous 25-year-old made history in her small Southern town.

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Black-ish isn’t falling back on controversial topics for its second season. While the hit ABC show dealt with corporal punishment in its first season, an episode in the upcoming season “will tackle ‘the N word’ — and its repercussions — when youngest son Jack (Miles Brown) utters it during a talent show performance at his […]

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Hours after Serena Williams won the Women’s Tennis Association tournament Sunday in Cincinnati, she was spotted getting extra cozy with rapper Drake. The pair, who dated briefly in 2011, was spotted “making out” at Sotto restaurant in downtown Cincinnati. In pics posted by TMZ, Williams, 33, is seen sitting on Drizzy’s lap in a private […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Forest Whitaker will make his Broadway debut this spring as a drunken, small time hustler in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Hughie.” The Academy Award and Golden Globe winner will play Erie, who tells his tale to a sympathetic soul in a rundown hotel lobby. He misses Hughie, the fleabag hotel’s […]