Donald Glover Booked as Host and Musical Guest on ‘Saturday Night Live’
[videowaywire video_id=”11FE07D931DF217B”] *”Saturday Night Live” will get two for the price of one next month, with Donald Glover set to appear as both host and musical guest on May 5. This marks the actor and rapper/singer’s first time serving in either slot on NBC’s long-running sketch series. “SNL” delivered the news about Glover with a […]
‘True’ That! Khloe Kardashian Names Her Baby Girl True Thompson
[videowaywire video_id=”2874FD7BDCC2C4ED”] *Four days after giving birth to a baby girl with her cheatin’ boyfriend – Tristan Thompson – Khloe Kardashian announced on Instagram that she’s named her daughter True. The baby’s full name is True Thompson. Hmm, think about it, it’s ironic isn’t it? “Our little girl, True Thompson, has completely stolen our hearts […]
ESPN Argues ‘No Obligation’ to Analyst it Fired Over Venus Williams ‘Gorilla’ Comment
[videowaywire video_id=”58F6EACBDD0D2925″] *ESPN has responded to claims in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against the channel by former tennis analyst Doug Adler over his comment about Venus Williams that some perceived to be a racial slur. While working the 2017 Australian Open for ESPN, Adler claims to have referred to Williams’ style of play as “guerrilla,” […]
DAMN! Kendrick Lamar Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Latest Album
[videowaywire video_id=”181C5BDE6E787B2D”] *Damn! seems like the correct exclamation in light of what we’re talking about because it’s historic. And it’s this: rapper Kendrick Lamar is now the first non-classical and non-jazz artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for music for his 2017 album, ‘DAMN.’ The Pulitzer listing describes Lamar’s recording as “a virtuosic song collection […]
BET Founder Bob Johnson Still Trumpeting The Donald’s Administration As ‘Better Economically’ for African Americans (Listen)
*Money still talks, and BET founder Bob Johnson, aka the First Black Billionaire has spoken once more about the favorable economy Donald Trump’s administration has produced “especially for African Americans” since the end of the Obama administration. In an interview on Friday with CNBC‘s “Squawk Box” (Scroll down to listen) on Friday, Johnson said “something is […]
New Report Ask The Question Is Black Celebrity Helping Hide The Wealth Gap?
*A groundbreaking report “What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap” from Duke University’s Dubois Cook Center, and Insight Center for Community Economic Development has laid out a case that many of the ways black and white American’s thought we could close the racial wealth gap will not work. Per the report from educational […]
Starbucks Manager Who Called Police on Black Real Estate Agents ‘No Longer Works At The Store’
*A Philadelphia Starbucks manager who called the police on two black real estate agents for not buying anything no longer works at the store, the corporation confirmed. A Starbucks representative told the NY Daily News the unidentified manager “no longer works at that store,” and “there is an internal review pending.” The manager was removed from […]
Kim Zolciak-Biermann Apologizes to NeNe Leakes: ‘I Want Us To Move On’
[videowaywire video_id=”10281FDEDAA88E7D”] *Following their tense confrontation on Sunday’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion, Kim Zolciak-Biermann is ready to put an end to her feud with former BFF Nene Leakes. The reality star issued an apology to her longtime rival on social media, writing: “I am so sorry for what has happened,” she wrote on Instagram. “We both know […]
‘Lowlife’ Star Nicki Micheaux: ‘I Totally Identify with Living a Life Feeling Trapped’ [EUR Exclusive]
“Even those it’s a genre film, there’s a level of consciousness to it,” actress Nicki Micheaux tells EUR/Electronic Urban Report about her new film “Lowlife.” The drama centers on a group of small-time criminals whose lives collide when an organ harvesting caper goes awry. “There’s sex trafficking that goes on with illegal immigrants,” she noted […]
Alicia Keys On Why Her #NoMakeup Choice is Not a Movement
[videowaywire video_id=”8D8E672BCF34A035″] *Alicia Keys revisits her #nomakeup choice on the cover of Variety’s “Power of Women” issue, and touches on the “prison” young women in the entertainment industry are put in when it comes to their looks “We’re supposed to be this big, and so tiny, and so skinny. If we have any hips or any thickness or […]
Thieves Took $820K in Jewelry/Cash from Usher in Home Robbery (And Security Footage!)
*If this story about Usher having 0ver $800,000 dollars in jewelry and cash stolen from his home, we don’t know what we’d do if we were in his and his estranged wife’s shoes. Oh yeah, did we say the thieves also got away with the security footage, too! Sheesh. According to a police report filed […]
Marlo Hampton Reveals Past Text Messages from Kenya Moore in Ongoing RHOA Feud
[videowaywire video_id=”1121E0A67F5A30E5″] *Marlo Hampton came through with receipts to check her “Real Housewives of Atlanta” co-star Kenya Moore in a spat over their pursuit of rich men. After Kenya characterized Marlo as nothing more than a prostitute, the socialite hit social media with a series of text messages they sent to each other while the […]
$100,000 is What Beyoncé is Giving to 4 Historically Black Colleges
*In the wake of her kick arse and historic performance at Coachella on Saturday evening (04-14-18), which paid tribute to historically black colleges, Beyoncé says she is donating $100,000 to four black universities. Bey announced on Monday the Homecoming Scholars Award Program for the 2018-2019 academic year through her BeyGOOD initiative. She plans to give […]
New R. Kelly ‘Sex Cult’ Accuser Claims Singer Infected Her with STD
[videowaywire video_id=”2905F453A7ECC7F5″] A new day, another new R. Kelly accuser… and this time, the woman who claims the singer tried to groom her for his “sex cult,” has filed a complaint against him, accusing Kelly of infecting her with an STD. According to the NY Daily News, the unidentified woman, who was just 19 when […]
Azealia Banks Says She was Drugged and Raped Over the Weekend
[videowaywire video_id=”2786E90A80ACE885″] *Azealia Banks has taken to Instagram with disturbing claims of being sexually assaulted over the weekend. In a since deleted Instagram story, the volatile rapper simply wrote, “Lowkey just got raped. I feel like dirt.” The 26-year-old followed up with a series of voice messages to fans in which she’s heard crying while […]
