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Music connoisseurs and consumers have often discussed the healing properties contained in musical melodies and lyrics. Singer Whitney McClain is demonstrating that music can also empower and motivate you to achieve your life’s goals. McClain’s soulful and angelic vocals propel her latest single “Top Spot,” a personal testimonial about pushing through the layers of traumatic…

Despite LeBron James’ half-billion-dollar fortune, his NBA championships, his worldwide fame and playing for the crème de la crème of sports franchises, he has not been detached from reality nor from the plight of everyday Black Americans. James, 36, publicly endorsed the views of Joy Reid, the host of MSNBC’s “The Reidout,” when she said Black…

New year, new Bow Wow jokes. The 33-year-old retired rapper and “Growing Up Hip Hop” producer was living his best life, or so he thought, on a boat with a bevy of attractive women. But the video he posted for his 4.6 million Instagram followers incited a new round of laughs, memes and criticism. Scores…

Michelle Obama poured out the contents of her soul regarding the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Obama, 56, was startled by the stark disparity between the way that Black Lives Matter protesters were treated in the summer of 2020 and White thugs were handled this week by Capitol police.…

The families of George Floyd, Eric Garner and Jacob Blake are inextricably intertwined with each other due to police brutality and their shared belief that they “are not looked at like humans.” The three families are members of an exclusive club after their lives were “changed within seconds” after the men in their lives were…

Zonnique Pullins, the daughter of Xscape singer Tiny Harris, got extremely graphic when she shared her worst fears and actual experience with childbirth. She was very candid about her worst fears to her co-hosts on her return to the FoxSoul’s “The Mix” show. Anton Peeples asked Pullins to “tell all the moms out there what…

Dr. Dre is now agreeing to pay his estranged wife the $2 million dollars she initially requested months ago but was denied by a Los Angeles County judge. However, it is a one-time payment, not the monthly stipend Nicole Young had sought. The 55-year-old hip-hop luminary seems to have had a change of heart ever…

Vivica A. Fox has come under fire for describing rap star Young Thug as a “sexy a– looking cockroach.” During the airing of the latest episode of Fox Soul’s “Cocktails With Queens,” Fox was asked what she thought about Thugger, and she proceeded to fumble and bumble through her answer. “You know he’s, like, just…

Former President Barack Obama categorically condemned the throngs of thugs that stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and desecrated the interior of the edifice on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Obama, 59, described the violent insurrection that was inspired by the sitting president as “a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation.” Political…

The state of Georgia turned an even darker shade of blue Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 6, 2021, after it was announced that Democrat Jon Ossoff had defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Ossoff’s win in Georgia follows the victory of the Rev. Raphael Warnock over incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler earlier Wednesday morning, making the Atlanta…

Serena Williams’ husband is usually content to hang back and let the tennis legend get all the shine. But the first week of the new year was different. Businessman Alexis Ohanian let out a couple of roars in defense of his barrier-breaking wife, who was targeted for sexist comments by a tennis tournament owner. Ohanian,…

Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby have both experienced meteoric rises in their musical careers within the past two years. The two good friends have frequently collaborated, including on Megan’s debut album Good News. Therefore, fans were outraged when they discovered that DaBaby had collaborated with Megan’s former friend-turned-enemy Tory Lanez. Lanez has been indicted by…

Dr. Dre let his fans know that he’s going to be alright. After all, he is a “doctor.” The legendary music mogul was awash in the tidal wave of fan concern after the 55-year-old suffered a brain aneurysm at his home on Monday evening, Jan. 4, 2020. He was rushed to the world-renowned Cedars Sinai…

LeBron James wants to put together an ownership team to buy the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream franchise from outgoing Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. James, 36, made the comments in the wake of Loeffler’s loss to the Rev. Raphael Warnock in the Senate runoff election in Georgia on Jan. 5, 2021. Think I’m gone put together an…

The Rev. Raphael Warnock has defeated incumbent Kelly Loeffler in their hard-fought Senate runoff race in Georgia, CNN and NBC have projected. With 98 percent of the votes counted, Warnock has secured 2,230,231 votes, or 50.6 percent, so far. Loeffler currently has 2,176,048 votes, which translates to 49.4 percent of the Georgia electorate. The race…

Rap revolutionary Dr. Dre was rushed to the intensive care unit at a Los Angeles area hospital after suffering a medical emergency, the media has reported. According to ExtraTV.com, the 55-year-old super-producer born Andre R. Young suffered a brain aneurysm on Monday, Jan. 4, 2020. He was taken to the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in…

Eric Jerome Dickey, the phenomenal New York Times bestselling author who was as prolific as he was dynamic with his novels on Black love and relationships, passed away on Jan. 3, 2020, after a long bout with an undisclosed illness. He was 59. Dickey’s death was announced by his publicist and confirmed by family member…

Kevin Durant’s campaign to supplant LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers from the NBA throne has gotten off to a very rocky beginning. Durant, 32, has been ordered into isolation, per NBA protocol, after being exposed to someone who contracted the novel coronavirus, according to CBS Sports. Contact tracing was able to determine that…

Last year, Dr. Dre and estranged wife Nicole Young took the award for the nastiest celebrity breakup. NFL superstar Von Miller and his former fiancée Me’Gan Denise are early candidates to take the prize in 2021. According to text messages posted by Denise, the Denver Broncos defensive end allegedly sent her a series of vulgar…

NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal is having a field day clowning current NBA player Rudy Gobert, who has secured a colossal $205 million contract despite producing pedestrian stats during a short, unremarkable career. Although Shaq, a four-time NBA champ, is known more for his philanthropy and growing business empire these days, the “NBA on…