HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Burak Cingi / Getty Black women have always stood at the center of all musical movements in this world. From as early as Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton, to Betty Davis and Donna Summer, they’ve created and contributed to the direction of Rock, Soul, Disco, Hip-Hop and R&B even when their impact wasn’t acknowledged or respected. The revival of Black music that’s coming from the United Kingdom and the continent of Africa with “Afrobeat” is a continuation of that culture, which began with Fela Kuti, but is now reaching its highest levels with artists like…
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Alex Ford , Senior Editor @Alejandro_Niglesias Alex “Alejandro” Ford is an award-winning journalist, elderly millennial, and crab leg connoisseur who’s been with Bossip since 2013. He currently serves as Senior Editor focusing on trending celebrity topics, fun celebrity interviews, and entertainment event recaps. With over 10 years of digital media experience, the pop culture junkie and his hilarious headlines have been featured in the New York Times, Buzzfeed, Jezebel, WIRED, VH1, and “Bossip On WeTV” where he became a popular GIF on social media. In his off time, Alex enjoys cooking, watching movies, customizing thrift clothing,…
Sammy Approved , Associate Editor @sammyapproved Chelsea Samuel is an Associate Editor at Global Grind, who writes under the moniker Sammy Approved. Chelsea currently creates content to provoke thought and conversation within Black and Brown culture and entertainment on a range of topics including music, television, film, lifestyle, and celebrity news. She has worked at Global Grind since 2020. As an Atlanta native, Chelsea has always taken pride in her hometown fueling her ear and love for music and culture. Her academic background in Television Production at Howard University further inspired the foundation of her brand Sammy Approved…
Source: Coco Jones, Love Is War / Tayo Kuku As part of “Credit the Culture,” Amazon Music‘s celebration of Black Music Month, ascending R&B star and Bel-Air actress Coco Jones dropped a brand-new Amazon Original song named ‘Love Is War.’ We find Coco dropping off an emotionally vulnerable performance over a lush orchestral arrangement on the never-before-heard song. The impressive new song can be heard now only on Amazon Music on the R&B Rotation playlist or by simply asking “Alexa, play the Amazon Original from Coco Jones” in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android, and on Alexa-enabled devices.…
Source: splash / Splash News The iconic Kanye West has already conquered the music and fashion realms and now, he seems to have his eyes set on the sports world. In the last 48 hours, Ye and Donda Sports have signed both Aaron Donald and Jaylen Brown. Aaron Donald is a defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams. The three time NFL Defensive Player of the Year is coming off of winning his first Super Bowl in February when the Rams heated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. The 31-year old is currently skipping his team’s organized team activities while negotiating a…
MadameNoire Featured Video Source: Amanda Edwards / Getty In the wake of the Texas mass shooting that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, Niecy Nash shared that she was also affected by a school shooting almost 20 years ago. In an Instagram post, the Claws star said she lost her then-teenage brother due to a school shooting. “I’m so sad… my brother was killed on his high school campus,” she wrote. “It hits different cuz school is a place you should feel safe. I don’t wish it on anyone.” Her brother Michael Ensley, 17, was killed in a 1993…
Republican former Sen. David Perdue, who is running for governor in Georgia, made several racist attacks at presumptive Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams, who is Black, saying she was “demeaning her own race” and should “go back to where she came from.” “Did you all see what Stacey said this weekend? She said that Georgia is the worst place in the country to live. Hey, she ain’t from here. Let her go back to where she came from,” Perdue said at a campaign event Monday ― a day before voters head to the polls in the Georgia primary.David Perdue on Stacey…
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette denied claiming that pedophilia was the ‘cornerstone of Islam’ on Thursday despite the fact that the tweets are still posted on her personal Twitter account. Barnette has a slew of anti-Islam tweets from between 2015 and 2017, many of which claim that former President Barack Obama is a ‘Muslim’ and at least one of which calls for the religion to be banned in the U.S. In an interview with NBC, Barnette was asked flatly about a 2015 tweet on her account that reads: ‘Pedophilia is the cornerstone of Islam.”Yeah, no, I don’t think that’s me. I would…
Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle had a moment to forget as he hilariously mixed up NFL star Patrick Mahomes with a 19-year-old basketball player at the Miami Grand Prix.Brundle, 62, is well known for walks along the grid preceding Formula 1 races, interviewing drivers and team bosses, but the inaugural race in Miami attracted a host of high-profile names. The commentator, who’s been covering F1 since 1997 having previously been a grand prix-winning driver, ended up confusing 2020 Super Bowl champion and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Mahomes with Duke Blue Devils basketball star and NBA hopeful Paolo Banchero – but the pair saw…
The Senate failed in a 49-51 vote to codify abortion rights Wednesday afternoon in a bill that even some moderate abortion rights supporters said went too far.The bill was expected to fail but gave Democrats a chance to put on a public display of support for abortion rights -even Vice President Kamala Harris showed up to the Capitol to preside over the vote.A group of fired-up female members of the House Progressive Caucus marched toward the Senate side chanting ‘my body, my decision’ as the upper chamber voted on the House-passed bill.The bill would have needed 60 votes, 10 from…