Jessie T. Usher Lands Role As “Son Of Shaft,” Possibly Alongside Samuel L. Jackson

It’s official, Jessie T. Usher will play the “Son of Shaft” in an upcoming sequel to “Shaft” the movie, which was released in 2000, and based off of the 1970’s series. Usher announced the news on his Instagram with the following post, “Can you see the resemblance?! lol #SonOfShaft #NewLineCinema kicking off this fall […]


#HiddenNoMore, “Hidden Figures” Film Inspires STEM Education Exchange Program

Thanks to the film, “Hidden Figures,” the United States will now have a state department program for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The program, which is appropriately called #HiddenNoMore, will invite 50 women to Washington in October who work in science, technology, engineering, and math across the world […]


Petition To Replace Confederate Statue With A Missy Elliott Statue in Virginia

Rightfully so, Missy Elliott now has a petition circling around her to get a confederate moment replaced for a statue in her honor.    “Missy is all of us” and represents “everything the Confederacy was not.” – Nathan Coflin, Petition Creator The confederate statue in located in Elliott’s hometown of Portsmouth, […]


Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” Reaches #8 on Billboard Hot 100, Making Her the Highest Charting Female Rapper Since 2014

2017 is truly the year of Cardi B, her reign is coming, and she’s demanding the spotlight with her music. “Bodak” is the highest charting song from a female rapper since Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” took the number 2 spot in 2014. Just two weeks ago, Cardi’s “Bodak Yellow” was number 28 on […]


White Supremacists Marched Last Night & This Morning in Charlottesville, Virginia, State of Emergency Declared

On August 11th, 2017, a month after a Ku Klux Klan rally here ended due to police doing their job and disassembling the hatred filed rally, hundreds of US white supremacists rallied at the University of Virginia. Seen outside the once home Thomas Jefferson, holding lit torches while chanting “White Lives Matter,” “You will […]


Lamar Odom Opens Up About Using Cocaine As A Coping Mechanism While Dealing With The Death Of His Son: “When I Did Coke, I Felt Good For A Minute”

We all know that drug addiction is no joke, and its a good thing that Lamar Odom can open up about his past problems and his life. In an essay for The Players’ Tribune, Odom shared the first time he used crack, that crack became a coping mechanism in a string of deaths […]


Take A First Look At OWN’s New Series, “Black Love”

“Black Love,” is a docu-series created by filmmakers Codie Elaine Oliver and Tommy Oliver that will have various well known and unknown black couples discussing various topics in how to make a relationship work. Featured couples include Viola Davis and husband Julius Tennon, Shanice and Flex Alexander, Meagan Good and DeVon […]