Gather in a circle, it’s time for some improv games! Actually, I lied, it’s time to read about some funny-ass black comedians to keep your eye on.

We have ourselves a wacky demo war!

Mo to the, E to the, up in the morning, a new day is starting and Brandy Norwood is realizing her responsibility, which is to let us know (again) Moesha is being rebooted!

Robert “R.” Kelly’s illegal chickens are absolutely coming home to roost.

There are two undeniably difficult things in life: getting up to go to work on Monday morning after a four-day weekend and imagining Bad Boys without Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

One of my fondest memories of grandma involves sitting betwixt her fair-skinned and veiny legs as she slathered Royal Crown grease over my thick follicles. She’d braid (or more accurately, plait) my soft tendrils into two or three ponytails and wrap each one into what I just learned is technically called a “hair bobble

It looks like we got a little bit ahead of ourselves here.

Trigger Warning: The following article contains details of an alleged sexual assault.

It’s the last month of the year and what better way to peace-out the year 2019 than with some black ass content?

With a career spanning over thirty years, Viola Davis is tackling a new venture to bring awareness to diabetes within the black community.

We lost many things when we learned of John Witherspoon’s death. One of those things was the ability to see him reprise his role as Grandad in the upcoming revival of The Boondocks.

The name’s Lynch—Lashana Lynch.

If you having streaming problems, I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but listening to Jay-Z ain’t one!

Rihanna’s lucky number of the day is 200. Two hundred, as in the number of weeks her album, ANTI, has spent on the Billboard 200 list. This is a huge deal because it means Rihanna is now the first black woman with an album to last that long on the list in the chart’s history. As Billboard reports, the Billboard 200…

For years, we’ve been asking Annie if she’s okay, but I think it’s time to ask Johnny—Depp, that is.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots (sidenote: for all the times The Root, the publication, gets mistaken for The Roots, the band, it would be dope if one time we, The Root, hosted a meta panel with live sounds from The Roots) will be making his directorial debut in the upcoming feature documentary titled, Black…

I will never forget the day my skin thickened.

If you can believe it, it has been 18 years since the tragic death of Aaliyah “Baby Girl” Haughton. Desperate to maintain the legacy of such a beloved singer who lost her life too soon, fans (I’m most certainly included in this number) have been clamoring for her music to be available on digital platforms.

Netflix and When They See Us writer-director Ava DuVernay are fighting back on a lawsuit filed against them and the figurative punches are formal.