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As the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner waged on to create a national divide between Americans, a well-known but lesser publicized similar instance was being experienced in the Midwest.
During a recent episode of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Nicki Minaj brought the girls out and was the victim of a wardrobe malfunction. It’s not the first time that’s happened. The little black number she had on wouldn’t even qualify as one of 10 of Nicki Minaj’s most revealing outfits.
Between independently releasing her debut album and ruffling feathers with her views on racism in America and cultural appropriation, Azealia Banks is writing a book.
Condensing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into one feature film all but alludes to the impossible. Which is why Ava DuVernay, Paul Webb and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions decided to hone in on the blood-shedding 1965 voting rights marches that transpired in Selma, Ala. to analyze the great civil leader’s life.
Aaron McNamara, a volunteer Ohio police officer, resigned from the force after some of his racist comments on social media went public. McNamara called for Blacks to be “exterminated” and was also bigoted towards other minorities and gay persons.
The very eligible bachelor Wiz Khalifa has hit the beach to remind everyone that Blacc Hollywood is still a worthy stocking stuffer via an iTunes gift card with his You and Your Friends” video.
Much has been said of the freshly tattooed Lil Wayne’s desire to leave Cash Money. Power 105’s Charlamagne Tha God thinks Weezy’s chances of actually tip toeing out of the YMCMB fold are slim. See what we did there?
The Saturday shooting of the two NYPD officers in Brooklyn was especially jarring considering the high tensions in the city. The gunman, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, had a history of violence which led to the events of this weekend and put the entire nation on notice.
Muhammad Ali gave the world a collective scare over the weekend when he was hospitalized with what appeared to be pneumonia. Fortunately, it appears that The Champ has fought through the severe portions of the illness and may even be released soon.
2 Chainz plans to hit the ground running in 2015 with plenty of new music. According to his latest interview with Revolt TV, he has something up his sleeve.
A California based artist by the name of Spider put his own twist on the Eye of Providence and inked it right on Lil’ Wayne’s chin.