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For iPhone users: They might just be this decade’s latest hot duo. Yup, Kevin Hart and Ice Cube are angling for the kind of success that Will Smith and Martin Lawrence had in Bad Boys, the kind of success that movie franchise stardom is made of. Their new movie, Ride Along out January 17 and […]

For  iPhone users: Keisha’s back. And so is the rest of the cast of VH1’s popular scripted series Single Ladies which returns for Season 3 tonight at 9 p.m. LisaRaye McCoy, who plays Keisha, a former video vixen turned real estate entrepreneur says that even though there was a delay between last season and the […]

Actress/comedienne Kym Whitley spent many years as a single woman before an amazing set of circumstances brought a man into her life. In Whitley’s case, that man is 3-year-old Joshua, who is the subject of her OWN reality show Raising Joshua. Now that Whitley has become a mother, other things in her life have also […]

For iPad/iPhone users: Actor/comedian  Brandon T. Jackson, who you probably know best from Roll Bounce or Tropic Thunder (unless you were one of the unfortunate few to see Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, is heading to the Arlington Improv near Dallas this weekend. But he wanted to share more than that with the listeners […]

This weekend cheesesteaks and po’boys are on the line if you’re betting on football. The New Orleans Saints and the Philadelphia Eagles square up for the NFC wild card game, pitting not just teams, but cities with great cultural traditions, against each other. If you don’t have a dog in that race, then check out […]

Actress/comedian Wanda Sykes has earned her success after years of being on the comedy circuit. With Herlarious, her OWN comedy specials, she’s giving other female comedians exposure. Dominique, Jackee and Sheryl Underwood are all part of the show that includes standup and sketch comedy. But first, now that it’s 2014, Sykes has to sort out […]

If you don’t already have “The View” co-host Sherri Shepherd’s book Plan D: How To Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It) you might as well pick up a copy to start the New Year off right. The book is available in paperback tomorrow. As Shepherd has lost 20 more pounds […]

Nelson Mandela achieved against immeasurable odds. He was  first an activist leader in the African National Congress, spearheading the eventually successful effort to dismantle apartheid. Then he spent almost 30 years in jail, came home and became the first elected Black president of South Africa. Mandela’s incredible journey is told in the new biopic Mandela: […]

Most African-Americans are familiar with Black homegoing ceremonies, or funerals as they’re called by others. But the services provided by Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas, Texas and Tallulah, Louisiana, as profiled by the TLC show Best Funeral Ever are some of the most elaborate in the nation. John Beckwith Jr. knows all about those […]

President Obama may be struggling with his approval ratings this year, but Beyonce sure isn’t. She dropped a “visual album” on the public last Thursday (an hour after Scandal’s winter finale went off) and the world lost their collective minds. There were more blog posts, tweets, comments, debates and folks lined up to hate or […]