When Jesse Williams accepted the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards on Sunday night, he spoke on behalf of black people and Black Lives Matter in one of the greatest acceptance speeches we’ve heard from a celebrity. Justin Timberlake was certainly inspired, though he should’ve expressed it better.
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Nicki Minaj thinks her ex-boyfriend Safaree Samuels is greedy and trifling and wants to let the world know it, too, in the only place that matters, a secret place that’s just between you and her—Twitter.
In October 2014, Kesha filed a lawsuit against producer Dr. Luke, accusing him of sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, and emotional distress, among other allegations. For over a year, Luke remained publicly silent about the suit, letting his legal team serve as his mouthpiece, while filing his own…
Pop singer-songwriter Ryn Weaver laid into Katy Perry on Twitter early this morning, apparently provoked by the following tweet:
Sometime in the last month or so, Kanye West rediscovered Twitter and it’s been super annoying.
Last night, a friend of Sam Smith’s was “verbally abused racially in London.” In a series of tweets about the incident, Smith shared that he was “deeply shocked” and “so upset” by what he saw, adding that he “never ever ever thought” that kind of abuse could happen in his home country. (You know, where This Is England…
Bakersfield, California news station KGET, known far and wide as a bastion of objective journalism, took the time out on Monday to get a “man on the street” perspective of the vile torrent of racism spewing forth from Donald Trump’s mouth hole.
Adele is forbidden from tweeting on her own, thanks to a history of drunk tweets.
Right Wing Twitter is loudly outraging itself today over the tweets of Dr. Saida Grundy, a new African American Studies professor at Boston University who dared to imply that white people were responsible for slavery and called “white college age males” a “problem population.”
Iggy Azalea has a bad habit of responding to every bit of criticism about her music. T.I. then responds to Iggy's response to her critics. They should both just not.
