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A simple question about spring plans generates 174 million views as social media users share anticipation, creating a viral countdown to the seasonal change.

It’s 2025, but somehow, the sight of a white man and a Black woman holding hands in public can still send parts of the ...

The 62-year-old actor and guitarist casually strolled onstage with a guitar in hand, linking up with Cooper for the second half of the song. Together, they tore through the Sabbath classic with all ...

(The Root) — Buzzfeed has been bringing quite a bit of color into its ranks lately, with folks such as Saeed Jones and Shani O. Hilton writing pieces like this one on the power of black Twitter ...

In the new book, “That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor,” edited by Damon Young, it might get the last laugh.

During the promotional tour for his memoir “Growing Up Urkel,” “Family Matters” star Jaleel White has had a lot to say about his time on the 90s comedy. His comments about the show not ...

There is nothing like Negro humor. It is loud, profane, juicy, wondrous, scabrous, willful, tricky and sometimes delivered in coded language. It is steeped, as well, in American history, in ...

Pittsburgh-based author Damon Young digs even deeper into humor — his and others’ — as editor of “That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor” ...

Born Loretta Mary Aiken in 1897, Moms Mabley was the godmother of stand-up comedy for Black women. Taking to the stage in the 1920s, she became the first female comic to grace the stage at Harlem ...

Luenell thinks that comedy also has the power to heal the comedian. Comedians like Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx also headlined shows in Las Vegas in the 1960s and 1970s, helping to pave the way for ...