Two female Russian athletes, Tatyana Firova and Kseniya Ryzhova, shared a kiss after winning the 4×400-meter relay at the World Athletics Championships Saturday. Then they kissed again during the award ceremony. Might not sound like a big deal to you, or maybe it’s something that’ll get you excited, but the two females knew what they were doing. It’s […]
A movie theater in Silver Spring, Maryland [Regal Cinemas Majestic Stadium, to be exact] had a seriously heightened security presence during the opening night of The Butler this weekend…as the majority of the audience was black. A woman named Tiffany Flowers live tweeted the entire ordeal, explaining that the theater checked customers’ tickets twice before being […]
South African Olympic champion Oscar Pistorius was formally indicted on murder charges in a Pretoria courtroom on Monday—what would have been girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s 30th birthday. Pistorius, a double-amputee running champion, shot and killed Steenkamp in February, after he says he mistook her for an intruder, but prosecutors have alleged that it was premeditated. Get […]
Now this really is old school vs. new school. There are many similarities between Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” and Robin Thicke’s smash hit “Blurred Lines,” and that’s because Robin Thicke sampled Marvin Gaye’s track for his. But now Thicke is going on the offense to make sure the likeness doesn’t end up […]
Wednesday night, Russell Simmons hosted a benefit at his new West Hollywood home for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), a foundation started by Russell’s close friend Rabbi Marc Schneier, and one he’s worked with for a decade. The foundation works hard towards their goal of strengthening Muslim- Jewish relations. During the event, the foundation honored […]
So if you follow me on Twitter, you know I’m a huge Buzzfeed fan – all those random gifs, cat lists, food porn, etc, etc, what’s not to love? But alas, they are not perfect [which is weird to admit because I thought at one point they really were], but I digress. I recently came […]
So a new poll done by Reuters shows that 40% of white people lie about that “black friend” they have. This is incredibly unfortunate, because as a white person, I know for a fact that 100% of white people need black friends. Not just a black friend, but black friends, as in more than one, […]
Solange performed in a laundromat in Brooklyn last night, and it was even more epic than it sounds. This summer, vitaminwater partnered with The FADER to present #uncapped: a series of transformational musical events dedicated to making boring Mondays more brilliant, and that’s exactly what they did inside Atlantis Super Wash on Atlantic Avenue in BK last […]
Last night was Russell Simmons 14th Annual Art For Life Benefit. It was held at a new location this year – Fairview Farms in Bridgehampton, and being partially outdoors with the ocean in the background, the mood was set as soon as you walked in the place. But aside from the beautiful event space and […]
Ariel Castro, accused of holding three women captive in his home for over a decade, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty. The Cleveland Kidnapper is entering the plea Friday. In exchange, prosecutors said the 53-year-old Castro would be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years. Castro had […]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player UPDATE: Thursday July, 25 9:45PM EST Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, has released a statement addressing the comments by Zimmerman Juror B29. It is devastating for my family to hear the comments from juror B29, comments which we already knew in our hearts to be true. That George […]
Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today that it has partnered with Russell Simmons, Brian Robbins and Steve Rifkind to launch All Def Music, the first major label-affiliated music company created specifically to sign, develop and promote artists on YouTube. The label will leverage the All Def Digital platform, a new channel and forthcoming multi-channel network […]