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Zoe Saldana faced a slew of criticism when she decided to portray Nina Simone in Cynthia Mort’s 2016 biopic Nina. Before Saldana’s performance even hit the table for judgment, people let it be known that Simone’s place and life as a dark-skinned Black woman were being rewritten when Saldana took on the role. This moved Saldana to […]
Nick Cannon‘s daytime talk show won’t premiere in the fall as originally planned. On Friday, Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury announced the comedian’s eponymous show has been shelved until fall 2021, about a year after its original September premiere date. The news comes as the 39-year-old faces backlash over anti-Semitic comments made on a recent podcast. “The Nick Cannon talk […]
Ellen DeGeneres is at the center of controversy, once again. In a recent BuzzFeed News report, one current and 10 former employees of The Ellen DeGeneres Show claimed they experienced a toxic work culture that conflicted with the host’s “be kind” mantra. “That ‘be kind’ bullshit only happens when the cameras are on. It’s all for show,” a former employee […]
A top writer for Fox News‘ host Tucker Carlson resigned from the network after he was exposed for posting bigoted comments online. According to CNN Business, writer Blake Neff had spent years secretly writing racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks on AutoAdmit, an unmoderated online forum widely refer to as the “4Chan for law students and lawyers.” The outlet reports Neff […]
Hours after Shane Dawson posted an apology video for past racist behavior, a clip surfaced that showed Dawson appearing to touch himself in a sexual manner while looking at a poster of an 11-year-old Willow Smith. Both Jada Pinkett Smith and Jaden Smith called him out on Twitter. On Friday night, the famed YouTuber posted a […]
Jenna Marbles, whose reach on YouTube included more than 20 million subscribers, has announced she’s leaving her main channel. “I wanna hold myself accountable and it’s painful to do it and it’s not fun and it hurts,” she said during the final moments of an 11-minute video titled “A Message,” uploaded Thursday. “I’m ashamed of things I’ve done and said […]
Walmart announced Tuesday it will remove the Mississippi state flag from its stores, citing the growing debate around Confederate iconography. “We know the design of the Mississippi state flag is being discussed by various stakeholders,” Walmart said in a statement to CNN Business. “While the issue continues to be discussed, we’ve made the decision to remove the Mississippi […]
A New York police officer was placed on administrative leave this week after he filmed himself performing an offensive rap that included lines about transgender people, Hillary Clinton, the coronavirus, and Jeffrey Epstein. The video, which was posted on social media, shows New Paltz officer Robert Sisco sitting in what appears to be a police vehicle at night. […]
B. Simone, whose book Baby Girl: Manifest the Life You Want was recently found to include multiple instances of plagiarism, is now being publicly defended by Meek Mill. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Meek asked why she was being “canceled” for having “finessed a book” when—in his opinion—major corporations could be met with the […]
B. Simone is looking for a man; however, her dating requirements have ignited some backlash. During a recent appearance on Nick Cannon‘s radio show, the self-proclaimed “Manifest Queen” revealed she has been living the single life for the last seven years and was finally ready to be in a relationship. Cannon told Simone there were plenty of men who were interested […]
