ESSENCE Festival 2016 is finally upon us, and with festivities just hours away, ESSENCE has announced they will celebrate the life of Prince with a New Orleans-themed tribute on Sunday (July 3).

Celebrities have led the shift of Twitter - from the website you use to write out random thoughts, to an app for product promotion, addressing scandals, and tweeting long streams of consciousness that are over 140 characters long.

Music

R&B singer Tweet was a force to be reckoned with on the soul music scene when she dropped her debut album Southern Hummingbird back in 2002 and…

It’s barely been two weeks since Kim Kardashian confirmed to the world that she and husband Kanye West are expecting their second child, but there’s already…

A tweet from Kanye West is extremely rare these days, but a tweet praising something is even more rare. Tinashe is already doing pretty well…

Music

Trombonist Jeff Bradshaw is back with a new single from his forthcoming album, Home, due out in March on Shanachie Records.  The song, “All Time…

Jodeci’s New Song Sounds Like Classic Jodeci… When we first began listening to Jodeci‘s new song “Every Moment,” we thought well this sounds just like…

It seems Olympian Lolo Jones does a better job at shading people on Twitter than clearing hurdles. The popular track and field athlete made a…

Entertainment

In today’s ” Who Gives A F–k” news, public relations executive Justine Sacco decided to ‘fess us and apologize for an offensive tweet sent out…

Entertainment

Justine Sacco, the communications director for media conglomerate IAC, which represents brands like; OkCupid, Ask.com, Match.com and Vimeo made the most senior of rookie mistakes when she…

Acclaimed film director Spike Lee was just hit with a serious lawsuit by an elderly couple, The McClains, from Florida. The couple is suing Spiker…