Daphne Dorman, the transgender woman referenced in Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, Sticks & Stones, has died, Deadline confirms. San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives reports that the cause of Dorman’s death was suicide.

Sobriety is an ongoing process and DMX is making sure he faces his challenges head-on.

Cue The Read’s mix of “Oh Happy Day” because Kid Fury and Crissle West are about to adjust your television settings to “shade.”

With the recent grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios, Tyler Perry’s legacy is pretty much cemented. However, making a difference in Hollywood is not the only way Perry wants to pay it forward.

Orange Colt 45—President Donald Trump—held a political circle jerk in the form of a rally once again on Thursday evening and, as per usual, suffered a bout of convenient memory loss when he decided to play Prince’s “Purple Rain” as MAGA hype music without the estate’s permission.

On what was to have been the first day of Cuba Gooding Jr.’s trial on charges he groped a woman’s breast without consent, prosecutors had the proceedings delayed after announcing Thursday that the actor has been indicted on a second charge.

Calling all diversity and inclusion campaigners! There’s about to be a TV comedy specifically for you!

The spirit of Brooklyn was strong in a recent video where a PETA protester confronted Lil’ Kim, yelling at her to “stop wearing fur.”

Siri has an awkward black counterpart.

There’s not a single entity that embodies the phrase “art imitates life” as effectively as Law & Order: SVU.

It looks like another Hamilton alum is joining the cast and crew under the sea!

We all remember the moment we realized Original Aunt Vivian (portrayed by Janet Hubert) suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a lighter-skinned version (portrayed by Daphne Reid) on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. So, imagine if OG Aunt Viv had an origin story.

You could say T.I. was ahead of the curve in looking for and promoting a female rapper during one of the more lean years in hip-hop gender parity.

Fresh from several viral moments in Atlanta, the Revolt Summit is rounding out the fall season by traveling to Los Angeles at the end of October.

Girlfriends are there through thick and thin—and sometimes even reunite on a successful primetime television show on ABC!

Hi! It’s not even Halloween yet and we’re talking about Christmas! Happens every year. Fight us.

Movies that are “so bad, they’re good” are one of life’s unsung treasures. And like anything, adding blackness to that principle is like adding proper seasoning—our series reviewing/recapping bad black movies, Negro Noir. As our queen-in-chief Danielle Belton pointed out, it’s so black, the title of the series is…

I’ve come to the conclusion that I have aged out of the BET Hip Hop Awards. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and it definitely doesn’t mean that I’m elderly. What it means is that this show—which taped over the weekend to air tonight at 8 p.m.—is catering to an audience that is not me and my peers. There’s honestly…

Following the news of Tyler Perry Studios’ (TPS) historic grand opening, there was an uproarious celebration heard amongst the black Hollywood elite and beyond.

Cedric the Entertainer, one of the “Original Kings of Comedy,” is still living up to his name.