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She’s leaving, but not on that midnight train to Georgia. Gladys Knight minus The Pips is suing her son to stop using her likeness to move fried chicken and waffles and have all memorabilia decorating the restaurants returned to her ASAP.

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French Montana is the most successful struggle rapper ever, and his list of bodies is getting crazy. The Bronx rapper seems to be smashing quasi-rapper Iggy Azalea. 

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If you didn’t watch HBO’s latest hit series The Night Of, you’re missing out on life. If you did then you’re now familiar with rising Hollywood star Riz Ahmed who swung through Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show last night and endeared himself even more to his already growing flock of fans.

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Chris Brown is at one with the struggle once again, this after police arrived at his home after a woman claimed in a 911 call that he pulled a gun on her. Breezy went on a wild rant on Instagram as the Los Angeles Police Department continues to wait for a search warrant outside his […]

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Former NFL player and current NBC Sports commentator Rodney Harrison has offered yet another ill-advised and misguided opinion on Colin Kaepernick protesting the nation anthem.

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Retired NFL running back and media personality Tiki Barber is without a doubt one of the most recognizable players to lace them up for the New York Giants. However, Barber is getting sauteed and flambéed on Twitter after attempting to pull off a politician’s move of playing both sides of the recent Colin Kaepernick National […]

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It takes a special kind of soulless Black person to ride for Donald Trump. Enter Pastor Mark Burns, the colored contact wearing, Trump shoe shiner who Tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton in blackface, and now says he didn’t know it was offensive.

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It’s funny how suddenly the misinformed and casually racist started rallying around All Lives Matter only after Black Lives Matter (just pretend there is a “too” there) became a movement. Those who have taken up the White Lives Matter aren’t exactly after fair treatment, though—and they have now been deemed a hate group. 

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Blac Chyna will soon be joining one of the most famous celebrity families on the planet when she and Rob Kardashian finally tie the knot. The entertainer bared all for her cover spread for PAPER magazine, following in her future sister-in-law Kim Kardashian‘s footsteps.

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Ray J wasn’t at all inspired by Kanye West’s speech at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs has added yet another title to his life’s resume, charter school founder. The music, media and marketing maven has opened the Capital Prep charter school in his hometown Harlem, N.Y.

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Power 105.1 announced its star-studded lineup for its annual Powerhouse concert today (Aug. 30). The headliners include Usher, Bryson Tiller, Wiz Khalifa, Tory Lanez and Fat Joe & Remy Ma.