Society

MC and social activist Rhymefest ruffled a few feathers recently when, while appearing as a guest columnist on educator Donnie Smith’s Analog Girl in a Digital World blog, he called out Chief Keef and other rappers whom he felt were being used as tools to negatively affect the minds of Black youth and to promote [...]

The stately Harry Belafonte is a historical force as well as a creative one. Having sung, danced and acted his way into the history book and the hearts and minds of music and movie lovers over the course of a six-decade career, the towering 85-year-old also marched, picketed and debated his way to changing the [...]

While many in the rap universe including fans, labels and fellow artists were being swept up by hurricane Chief Keef, not everyone watching saw a star in the making. As a guest blogger on educator Donnie Smith’s Analog Girl In a Digital World blog, MC and Keef’s fellow Chicagoan Rhymefest said the 17-year-old MC is [...]

Smokey Robinson has decided to use his social media accounts and extensive, celebrity-filled Rolodex to help raise awareness of and potentially initiate fundraising efforts for a bevy of humanitarian issues. The American R&B and soul legend is launching a new initiative dubbed “Smoke Alarm,” which he’s calling a “digital emergency broadcast network” that will keep [...]

After a swell of controversy and widespread criticism, adidas has quashed plans to release the JS Roundhouse Mids, a sneaker created by Beverly Hills fashion designer Jeremy Scott featuring a bright orange shackle-like piece that wraps around the wearer’s ankle and is attached to the shoe by a plastic chain. [...]

Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, was arrested Tuesday on one count of perjury. She posted a $1000 bond and has since been released. [...]

As a close friend of Beyonce and Jay-Z, Gwyneth Paltrow was amongst many celebs who attended the Watch The Throne concert in Paris recently. After tweeting a picture of herself, The-Dream and Jay’s right-hand man Ty Ty on stage with the caption “Ni**as in paris for real,” the actress finds herself embroiled in a heated [...]

A day after George Zimmerman turned himself in to Florida police after having his bond revoked for allegedly misleading the court during his bond hearing, his defense team has released a statement addressing the situation. [...]

A Florida judge revoked the bond of George Zimmerman Friday afternoon and ordered the man charged in the death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to surrender himself within 48 hours, the Orlando Sentinel reports. [...]

After announcing at this year’s Kapow! Comic Convention they had reversed course and would be switching the sexual orientation of one of their previously established superheroes, DC Comics has finally revealed which character will be undergoing the change. Alan Scott, the first superhero in the DC Universe to bear the Green Lantern name back in [...]