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Stephen A. Smith was in rare form on his radio show over the NBA publicly acknowledging that it has moved away from using the term “owner” to describe the majority shareholder(s) for their respective teams. NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke with TMZ Sports last month about how a number of teams have stopped using the word […]
Piers Morgan has been getting dragged by Twitter users for replying to a troll with, “I literally dance to @50cent most days on @GMB you racist imbecile.” The aforementioned troll, user @bolaagbaje tweeted a cartoonized version of Morgan and a boy in a Fly Emirates jersey and bucket hat on July 4. The image’s text […]
Italian airline Alitalia received backlash after it released a commercial that featured an actor in blackface portraying Barack Obama, and now the company removed the video and has issued a formal apology. The video was released as part of a campaign that advertised Alitalia’s new Rome to Washington route. It also featured portrayals of other U.S. presidents including Donald […]
A North Carolina man has filed a lawsuit against a Hardee’s restaurant after he said the staff only gave him two hash browns in his small Hash Rounds order. As the Charlotte Observer reports, 58-year-old Tommy Martin says his civil rights were violated when he didn’t get the usual amount. Martin believes he was unfairly given the smaller […]
Lizzo said she is “out for blood.” Following her Thursday night performance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, the 31-year-old singer took to Twitter claiming members of her team were assaulted by a “bigoted” security guard at the event. Lizzo said she intended to file a complaint, and hoped the festival organizers would cooperate in the investigation. DID ANYBODY GET […]
The Game has been leading up to the release of what he has claimed will be his ninth and final album Born to Rap. On Friday, he shared the single “West Side.” He’s been getting increasingly introspective before the project’s release. When TMZ caught up with him in Hollywood following a listening party he hosted […]
A North Carolina man insists he and his family are not bigots, despite what his online critics might say. John Freeman, who co-owns the Outdoor Recreation Center of Wendell, received backlash this month over a set pool regulations many have called racist. The rules included a ban on baggy pants, dreadlocks, weaves, and hair extensions. ABC 11 News […]
Tory Lanez has alleged that while on a music video shoot, the directors tried to substitute a woman with a darker complexion for a lighter-skinned woman—and Lanez wasn’t okay with it. The Canadian artist took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes clip of him being filmed for Nafe Smallz’s “Good Love” video, which Complex premiered […]
Ava DuVernay’s powerful Netflix miniseries When They See Us chronicles the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five in 1989, and the actions taken by prosecutors and local figureheads to frame the five black and brown teens for a crime they didn’t commit. In a recent interview with Shadow and Act, three of the five men—Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, […]
Rainn Wilson shared a photo of a noose hanging from a friend’s tree earlier this week, and the police are reportedly looking into it. While he characterized the police response as blasé, sources who spoke to TMZ say they are taking the matter very seriously. “When the police were called they said, essentially, ‘what’s the […]
