Kayla Oaddams/WireImage Fantasia Barrino says she and her family were the victims of racial profiling during a recent stay at an Airbnb. She took to social media on December 17 to express the “uneasy” feeling she had after a birthday trip celebrating her son was cut short due to alleged unfair treatment based on her skin color. “My…
Disney It’s time … for “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to make its annual trip to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Mariah Carey‘s modern classic has topped the chart for a fifth holiday season: It first reached the top 10 in 2017, then managed to reach #1 in 2019, 2020, 2021…
Courtesy of Meta Many artists have been the subject of documentaries and quite a few have done virtual reality concerts. But Jack Harlow is going to combine those two into one presentation. You’ll need a Meta Quest VR Headset to watch Jack Harlow No Place Like Home: A VR Concert, premiering January 4 at 8…
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times Television producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes is taking on a new passion project. The TV titan, known for hit shows like Bridgerton and Scandal, is teaming up with the Emmett Till Interpretive Center to preserve the history of Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was kidnapped, beaten and lynched in Mississippi in August 1955…
Latto, Jeezy, Lala Anthony and Jayda Cheaves are among the celebrities who hosted Christmas giveaways December 16 and 17. — Latto organized her third annual Christmas in Clayco event and donated over $350,000 worth of gifts to children from the Atlanta neighborhood she grew up in. — Jeezy and his Street Dreamz Foundation, in partnership with Amazon, delivered bikes, scooters, laptops and other gifts to children in…
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Nicki Minaj has yet again produced an album worthy of the #1 spot on Billboard‘s Top 200 Albums chart. Nicki’s fifth studio project, Pink Friday 2, marks her third album to go #1, following Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded in 2012 and her debut LP, Pink Friday, in 2011. Upon its release on December 8, Nicki’s 41st birthday, the 22-track project earned 228,000 equivalent album unit…
Alon Amir The cultural impact of The Color Purple, with its Black characters who break free from oppression, makes it an important film in the Black community, says Taraji P. Henson, who stars as Shug Avery in the 2023 film adaptation. The themes of resilience and overcoming adversity, as well as this adaptation’s overarching focus on joy, makes the movie relatable to…
Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Three months after Bone Thugs-N-Harmony‘s Krayzie Bone suffered a near-death health scare, he is opening up about what the moment was like. In his first public interview with Spin, he details his experience being diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis — a rare chronic disease caused by inflammation — and how he almost lost his life because of it. He…
From projects out of the South to well-received return albums and tracks from newcomers, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest and greatest in music. Paul Wall, The Great Wall — The Houston rapper, best known for hits of the 2000s, dropped off his 14th studio album, the first solo project in two…
Neon The official trailer for Ava DuVernay’s latest film, Origin, has arrived. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor stars as author and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson in a story about her investigation into the global phenomenon of caste. Along the way, Wilkerson experiences love, loss and the beauty of human resilience. DuVernay wrote and directed the film, which is being distributed by Neon. It…