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Apparently, Shea Moisture didn’t learn much from the Pepsi debacle. The company is pulling an ad after an online backlash over it, which seems to exclude the Black women that helped them become relevant.   SheaMoisture is CANCELLED pic.twitter.com/T4Dru1JgAq — NANA JIBRIL 🌙🏳️‍🌈 (@girlswithtoys) April 24, 2017   Online commenters dragged the brand for an […]

CHANHASSEN, MN – If this weekend is any indication, Prince’s legacy is assured. 2,000 Prince lovers came out to Minnesota to celebrate the man and to see where he lived, worked and sadly, died at the age of 57 last April. Morris Hayes onstage at the Celebration.  “Being here with all the different members of […]

Prince was an enormously prolific artist, releasing 39 studio albums in his too short lifetime. That’s more than any modern artist including those who’ve been around even longer like Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder AND Aretha Franklin. But many people only know his most successful commercial (and arguably most groundbreaking) run of albums from the 80’s. […]

When Prince passed on to the heavenly realms last year, the world was shocked and stunned. But in the wake of his death, we learned much so much about an artist who at times seemed mysterious, distant and almost otherworldly. But now we know that Prince was as multifaceted an individual as he was a […]

CHANHASSEN, MN – Surprise guest George Clinton kicked off the festivities at the first annual Celebration at Prince’s home and studio, Paisley Park. The Celebration promised to be a tribute to the iconic late musician at the studio where he lived, worked, and sadly, died, last year at the age of 57. The four-day event […]