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Tyler Perry‘s career trajectory embodies the term “rags to riches,” having come out of homelessness to create a multi-million dollar empire where he fosters opportunities for others — especially those who look like him. The film and television juggernaut was recognized for these contributions and then some with one of …

It’s good to be seventeen. No, really, just ask Amandla Stenberg herself. “Seventeen feels good,” she tells Asos magazine’s Spring 2016 issue (she also appears on the cover). The Hunger Games actress calls the last few years “a magical time” and waxes poetic about what it’s like to be young …

If you haven’t kept up with the heart-breaking case of Cyntoia Brown, who was recently freed from prison after she killed one of her johns in self-defense, then you’re missing out on the most recent and popular stories on the horrors and struggles of sex-trafficked women in America. It …

We’ve been waiting on this visual and now it’s here. Back in August, we got a first look at the Netflix adaptation of critically-acclaimed Broadway play American Son. Starring Kerry Washington as a distraught mom of a missing biracial boy, it goes without saying we’re in for a heart-wrenching story …

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UPDATE: After news leaked that Love & Hip Hop couple Erica Mena and Safaree were expecting their first child together, the two are finally confirming the reports themselves — and they did so in the cutest way possible. In an adorable video which chronicles the behind-the-scenes moments of their maternity photo …

Big Freedia, the New Orleans bounce music queen who just collaborated with Beyoncé on her new single “Formation,” is now bringing her talents to the kitchen. Freedia will be hosting a pop-up restaurant called Big Freedia’s Soul Food at the New Orleans BUKU Music + Art Project on March 11 …

The wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings says her husband worked tirelessly to represent his people, even up until his very “last breath” when he succumbed to longtime health complications at 68 years old. Cummings not only represented Maryland’s 7th District for more than two decades, but he also lived …

But Trump has long dismissed such critiques of his language as mere tone-policing, another side of the political correctness he decries. His language is, he has contended, “MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL”—all caps his, and self-reinforcing. Trump may not sound like a typical president, he and his defenders contend, but his blunt …