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R. Kelly has no doubt faced a number of detractors in recent weeks, and his defiance against the towering number of allegations reared its head via the CBS This Morning interviews. The attorney who represented the singer back in 2008 says that the singer is, in his words, “guilty as hell.” Ed Genson, a longtime […]

A new witness has come forth in connection to claims made by a pair of women who say they were sexually assaulted by R. Kelly back in 1995. A woman who says she saw the pair in a hotel lobby after the alleged incident in Maryland and was inspired to speak out after the women […]

Solange ended a crazy Black History Month with the revitalization of BlackPlanet.com by releasing exclusives and insight into her newest project ‘When I Get Home’. Get Breaking News & Exclusive Contest in Your Inbox:   Just after the release of ‘When I Get Home’ Solange broadcasted a multimedia presentation all over Houston on her BlackPlanet.com page […]

March is Women’s History Month and we’re celebrating 31 different women over the month, spanning the worlds of entertainment, politics, local, global and beyond. Entry number seven on our list hails from Dallas, Texas and is the living definition of a young girl boss. When she felt the need to create spaces for her ideas, she wasn’t going […]

Are you missing the exploits of Nona Darling and her crew in Brooklyn? Today (March 7), Netflix revealed that season 2 of She’s Gotta Have It will premiere this May on Memorial Day Weekend. The Spike Lee-directed series (he and his wife Tonya Lee Lewis are both executive producers) based on his classic film will […]

Yara Shahidi and Naomi Osaka are among the 20 new faces in Barbie’s “Sheroes” collection of dolls honoring inspiring women in celebration of the company’s 60th anniversary. 

First it was Kim Porter, who passed unexpectedly of lobar pneumonia late last year, then it was Tamera Mowry-Housley, who was out for a week with what developed into viral pneumonia. Now, Whoopi Goldberg has it.

Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage, the two girlfriends of R. Kelly are finally speaking out. “When I first met Robert, my parents told me to lie about my age,” Clary told Gayle King in an exclusive interview. “When I met him, he thought I was 18. My parents wanted me to take pictures with him, […]

Become a “Partner in Hope” by pledging just $20 a month to help kids at St. Jude fight cancer. Today’s hottest artists have joined the #ThisShirtSavesLives movement to help St. Jude kids. When you become a Partner In Hope, you will get the This Shirt Saves Lives t-shirt to wear as a reminder that you joined the lifesaving […]