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Black Panther hasn’t even blessed movie screens yet and is already breaking records. Pre-sale tickets for the highly-anticipated Marvel Studios film sold at a record pace, in fact, they sold so fast that Lupita Nyong’o one of the film’s stars had a hard time securing tickets for herself.

It seems years after going underground Dapper Dan will make a historic return to Harlem. The legendary tailor will be opening a new location in uptown with the help of Gucci.

As humble and philanthropic as Chance The Rapper maybe, he still is as braggadocio as the next man. The “Same Drugs” rapper recently took credit for bringing back Supreme and Champion thus leaving many people feeling in a ways—so Twitter attacked.

Russell Simmons may have put his #NotMe movement on ice, but the NYPD is still investigating him. Reportedly, the cops are investigating the Hip-Hop mogul for two more alleged sexual assaults. 

Kendrick Lamar and his performance at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park during halftime of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game between Georgia and Alabama was a welcome surprise. Considering the political implications of having President Donald Trump at the game and the wave of excitement that grew after a new Black Panther trailer featuring […]

It is safe to assume no one of color is on the design team at H&M. After a headass racially insensitive move the retailer has faced major backlash from the African-American community.

Popular fashion retailer H&M found themselves on the wrong side of online discussion after the company posted an image of a Black boy wearing a racially insensitive slogan. The hoodie, adorned with the words “coolest monkey in the jungle,” sparked a flurry of angry tweets across social media prompting the company to offer a rather […]

Even the music in Wakanda is going to be of a higher caliber. Today (Jan. 4), it was formally announced that Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith of Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) will be curating and producing the forthcoming Black Panther: The Album. 

They done brought the battle MC out of Skillz again. Specifically, it was Uncle Murda—that’s who catches slanderous bars in “Murda Gram.”

Nothing is safe in the culture. In the forthcoming Netflix film Step Sisters, a Black sorority member is tasked with teaching an out of pocket white sorority how to step. 

Logan Paul, a popular YouTube vlogger with nearly 4 million followers on Twitter and over 16 million on Instagram, filmed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan’s infamous Aokigahara forest. Although Paul has since apologized for posting the now-deleted clip, fans across social media are blasting the 22-year-old for the silly stunt.

[UPDATE BELOW] Laura Govan‘s name began trending Saturday morning (12/30) after it appears that Tamar Braxton spilled the tea in saying her estranged husband Vincent Herbert has been dipping his pool stick elsewhere. According to the singer, Govan is pregnant by Herbert and Twitter has been on fire since it came out.