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Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage Tory Lanez released his Lost Cause mixtape 10 years ago, so in honor of its anniversary, he’s bringing it to streaming services. He announced the news on social media Tuesday while reflecting on the role it played in changing his life for the better. “Ten years ago, I was broke as f*** sleeping […]

Photo by Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images Lauryn Hill has responded to the lawsuit fellow Fugees member Pras filed against her Tuesday. Taking to Instagram, she released a lengthy statement, which she contends presented “some clarity and facts.” “I’ve been silent and pushing through because I understood that Pras was under duress because of his legal battles and […]

Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Time Warner Inc. John Amos, the actor best known for playing doting father James Evans Sr. on the sitcom Good Times, has died, his publicist told ABC News. He was 84. Amos was also known for his role as the older Kunta Kinte on the 1977 TV miniseries Roots, for which […]

Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images Sing Sing actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has officially been cleared of the charges for which he was wrongfully imprisoned. He was exonerated of murder Monday morning, 27 years after he was convicted. JJ was wrongfully convicted of killing a retired New York police detective in 1998 during the robbery of a gambling […]

After Cornelius Smith testified that he and Justin Johnson killed Young Dolph as a response to a hit put out by Yo Gotti‘s late brother, Big Jook, Justin was found guilty, The Associated Press reported. The jury returned the verdict Thursday after nearly four hours of deliberation. Justin was convicted of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and being a felon […]

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for City Harvest The arrest of Bad Boy Records head and hip-hop icon Sean “Diddy” Combs continues to reverberate throughout Hollywood, and Taye Diggs has now sounded off on the arrest of the person he says he once considered a hero. In a three-count federal indictment, the music mogul faces charges of sex […]

Hulu She Taught Love is making its way to Hulu Friday and chronicles a story of Black love, complicated by a character’s battle with mortality. To be more specific, Frank Cooper, an actor who has gone through life drinking booze, using blow and sleeping with women, meets and falls in love with Mali Waters (Arsema Thomas), […]

Prime Video Prime Video has released the trailer to Cross, the new series starring Aldis Hodge as author James Patterson‘s brilliant detective Alex Cross. The trailer shows the criminal psychologist on the hunt for a vicious serial killer who wears a creepy realistic mask.  “I don’t kill for fun,” the killer says. “You’re going to be part of […]

Photo by Harry Durrant/Getty Images SZA‘s episode of Hot Ones dropped Thursday, but you may not realize it’s her. The singer did the whole interview wearing face prosthetics that made her resemble a bug. “I have a harder time enjoying anything if I don’t suffer for it, which is why I have this mask on,” she […]

Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for STARZ Mary J. Blidge has extended her partnership with Lifetime, for which she will executive produce a few more projects, Variety reports. The first is a movie tentatively named after her 2001 song “Family Affair.” Family Affair will follow the story of Kendra and Ben, who “move out of the […]