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Matthew Cherry is creating "Hair Love," an animated short film about a Black father trying to do his daughter's hair for the first time.

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Once again, Wendy Williams has rubbed a celebrity the wrong way. This time, it’s TLC‘s Chilli, who brought her wrath to the daytime talk show host after she mentioned the group recently in her “Hot Topics” segment. While discussing Naughty by Nature’s recently launched KickStarter campaign to fund their next album, Williams touched on TLC’s […]

De La Soul has been quietly working on a new album, but now they are looking to their fans to help them with the rest.…

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  Just two days after launching their Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for their new album, TLC has exceeded their $150k goal.  1,491 supporters helped…

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Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Spike Lee’s horror-comedy “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,” which was funded by a Kickstarter campaign launched last year. Starring Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams, “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” is a reinterpretation of Bill Gunn’s 1973 “Ganja and Hess.” That film centered on a doctor’s assistant […]

Crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter and GoFundMe have been able to achieve some fantastic goals. They have also funded some really ridiculous stuff. It was amazing…

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After reaching its $1 million goal in just one day, LaVar Burton’s 35-day “Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter campaign has come to an end, collecting a total of $5.4 million, according to Mashable. The donations from 105,855 backers will be used to bring Burton’s TV classic to a new generation of readers by building a web version […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeVar Burton’s fundraising effort to bring “Reading Rainbow” to the online masses is a by-the-book success. The goal of raising $1 million by July 2 was reached within hours of the campaign’s launch Wednesday on Kickstarter, according to the website. More than 34,000 donors had pledged $1.6 million and counting as […]

This morning I wondered if I had an addiction to Instagram. It was confirmed when I saw an email for a soon-to-be app that would…

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Online fundraising site Kickstarter says hackers got some of its customer data. Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler said in a blog post that hackers accessed usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. The passwords are encrypted, but the company said it’s possible for a hacker to guess a weak or obvious password. It recommended that users […]

It can’t be easy being a Victoria’s Secret model. You have to keep your body toned and tight, as you’re walking around in lingerie. You must get cold in public with just a bra and panties on, not to mention the high heels or thigh-high boots you must be able to stroll in as though […]

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With so much negativity surrounding men and fatherhood, especially black men and fatherhood, it’s good to see stories like this. “Daddy Don’t Go”, a New York-based documentary, sets out to dispel the stereotype of absentee fathers in America. At a time when one out of every three children in the U.S. grows up without a […]