About Ariel C. James

Anthony Mackie is “drinking” the Donald Trump Kool-Aid, and he knows it. The actor just revealed that he is endorsing the crass candidate for president in 2016. In an interview with BET, Mackie was asked whose presidential campaign he would want to run (he’s out promoting his political drama Our Brand is Crisis), and he picked The […]

Maryland will begin to phase out the state’s Confederate flag license plates beginning this fall. Reuters reports that the Charleston AME church massacre in June was the catalyst behind the change, after pictures of shooter Dylann Roof posing with the flag surfaced online. U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis issued the order on Thursday, lifting a 1997 injunction at […]

https://instagram.com/p/86x-HFJc5s/ Did Lindsay Lohan just try to hop on Kanye West‘s coattails? The Mean Girls actress posted on Instagram that she’s thinking of running for president in 2020. She then posted a pic of her and Kanye, who said he’s also running for prez in 2020, saying, “The first thing I would like to do as president […]

A six-year-old boy shot and killed his three-year-old brother in Chicago Saturday night after their father, Michael Santiago, showed the older son where the firearm was stashed on top of the refrigerator. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Tribune the two boys were playing a game of cops and robbers. The older son pointed […]

Being named after food gives people the OK to turn you into food fodder. In Taraji P. Henson‘s case, since her uber-popular character on Empire is named “Cookie,” fans have been filling up her cookie jar with the delicious treats – and she’s sick of it. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel asked the Emmy-nominated […]

Who says you can’t learn anything from TV? If you really look closely, outside of just the entertainment, TV shows teach us a lot. Sometimes it’s like an onion, peeling back layers and layers of lessons for the viewer to take back. If you’re not quick enough, you just might miss it. There are certain […]

Suge Knight might not be able to get many messages through while he’s in jail awaiting his murder trial, but he’s trying his best. While in court yesterday, Knight wanted to wish his six-year-old son a happy birthday. He wrote “Happy birthday Legend” on a piece of paper, and waited for the TV camera operator […]

One college is making an actual attempt to rid students' antics of discrimination when dressing in costume for the spirited holiday.

We shouldn’t be surprised when people post selfies. But when rapper Tariq Royal got shot in the head, no one could expect that he’d post a video of what happened on his Facebook page. The Compton rapper said that he and his friends were shot earlier in the month. According to his post, Royal was shot by […]

Coloring books for adults are all the rage now. They’re proven to help cope with stress and are a source of “therapy.” Publishers say the books have become a “phenomenon” they haven’t experienced in the last 30 years. So who better to hop on this trend than Kim Kardashian West? Well, technically, she’s not behind this coloring book. Illustrator Christina […]

Pharrell Williams, a champion of women, has publicly announced that he’s endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. In an interview on Ellen, the super producer – who also performed “Freedom” during his appearance – was asked his opinion on the upcoming election. Pharrell responded that “it’s time for a woman” to make her way to the White House. […]

It’s not every day someone gets to beat Google, but that’s what happened when Sanmay Ved purchased the domain for twelve bucks earlier this month thanks to a website flaw. Google got its domain back and told Ved that the company pay a penny for him to fork over the dot-com. The company changed its […]