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Carlos Watson via Twitter *Carlos Watson’s Ozy Media is reportedly closing its doors following a scathing New York Times exposé about a conference call gone wrong.  The closure comes after a co-founder of the company impersonated a YouTube executive during a funding call with a Goldman Sachs banker while attempting to raise $40 million […]

*Netflix has set a Thanksgiving Day premiere for Spike Lee’s series adaptation of his 1986 film “She’s Gotta Have It.” NOLA and her three lovers — The Cultured Model, Greer Childs; The Protective Investment Banker Jamie Overstreet; and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead Mars “please baby baby baby baby please” Blackmon — are all coming […]

Image source: Twitter *Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson will not be hosting the Emmy Awards ceremony for news and documentaries on Wednesday, and his exit comes amid a scathing New York Times exposé about a conference call gone wrong.  According to the report, the co-founder of Watson’s company impersonated a YouTube executive during a […]

Kimora Lee Simmons attends the 1 Year Anniversary of Kimora Lee Simmons’ Beverly Hills boutique on May 26, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. *The New York Post’s Page Six has issued an apology to Kimora Lee Simmons after publishing a story that her fashion line was linked to a corruption probe in Malaysia. The now-deleted […]

[…] company. Page Six’s Richard Johnson claims that it is widely believed that the fashion line Kimora launched three years ago was financed by her husband Tim Leissner. The banker left Goldman Sachs under a cloud of suspicion last year after raising $6.5 billion for a Malaysian development fund. The FBI and investigators in four other […]

 *Tamar Braxton and her family jetted to Nigeria with her boyfriend David Adefeso to meet his family, sparking rumors that the pair are engaged.   As noted by The YBF, on an episode of “Braxton Family Values,” the Nigerian banker took the unusual step of inviting a woman back to his home country to […]

Gale Nelson, senior vice president, Big Bro thers, Big Sisters of Greater Miami *Gale Nelson grew up in Toledo, Ohio and graduated from the University of Toledo as a recipient of the coveted Coca Cola “We Mean Business Scholarship” in 1992. Armed with a newly minted Corporate Finance degree, Nelson had big dreams to […]

*Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve catastrophe became fodder for the Indiana Pacers organization on Tuesday. Just one night after Mimi’s lip sync embarrassment on national television, the NBA team chose for its “Lip Sync Cam” Carey’s 1991 song “Emotions” – the very tune she was trying to perform during “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” […]

[…] and entrepreneur.  As of Thursday, Oct. 9, he can add banker to his portfolio of titles. Killer Mike, whose real name is Michael Render, is co-founder of the new Greenwood Bank.  He shares ownership of Greenwood with civil rights icon and former mayor of Atlanta, Andrew J. Young and Ryan Glover, founder of Bounce […]

[…] an angel when he is about to jump of a bridge Christmas day in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Howard (Will Smith), a flourishing executive who is called the guru of Madison Avenue, finds life meaningless when his daughter dies. Just before Christmas Howard is visited by Death, Time and Love. Howard is no Scrooge […]

*Back in 2016, African-American billionaire Robert F. Smith, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, made a big bet when he paid $1.8 billion for the cloud-service company, Marketo. Well, that bet has significantly paid off… because he just sold Marketo to Adobe Systems, Inc. for $4.75 billion, which has earned him a profit […]

*Darius McCrary and Kellie Williams are best known for playing siblings Eddie and Laura Winslow on the ’90s sitcom “Family Matters.” Now they are reuniting for a new movie in which they play a married couple. Here’s more from EW.com: The film, Christmas in Carolina, is a holiday rom-com that follows Elle (Atlanta‘s Joslyn […]

*We recently interviewed the cast of the critically acclaimed, “Blindspotting,” for its season two premiere. The show is heralded as a unique series that explores the complexities of race, identity, incarceration, and gentrification in Oakland, California. “Blindspotting” centers around best friends Miles and Collin, played by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs. April Absynth plays […]

*New York, NY– Daymond John, the founder and CEO of FUBU and Co-Star of ABC’s four-time Emmy Award winning show, Shark Tank, has announced the forthcoming Black Entrepreneurs Day presented by Chase for Business. In conjunction with Medium Rare (Shaq vs. Gronk), Black Entrepreneurs Day presented by Chase for Business is a primetime special […]

*Mary J. Blige has found a way to use her messy divorce from Kendu Isaacs to her advantage. The singer has decided to open her set on the new King & Queen of Hearts World Tour with Maxwell with headlines from the public split. New video from the first stop in Europe surfaced over the weekend showing Blige […]