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BET reports: Kim Burrell is featured on the soundtrack to one of the most uplifting and inspiring movies of the year, Hidden Figures, which focuses on a group of incredible Black women who strive to make change and spread positivity along that journey. Contrarily, her latest comments about another marginalized group of people don’t follow that thread of positivity as …

Via press release: Tim Cook, number 1 on this year’s Power 50 list, took charge of tech giant Apple as CEO in 2011 and has guided the company through significant upgrades on all of its product lines and helped the brand increase its market share to 20% of all money spent on U.S. consumer technology. This year marks the first …

Buzzfeed calls Chris Brown “the absolute worst person at the Grammys.”

The usual red carpet hubbub is already underway and the show begins at 8PM Eastern.  Gay R&B star Frank Ocean is up for six awards including Best New Artist, Record Of The Year (Thinkin Bout You), and Album Of The Year (channel ORANGE). Ocean is the first out gay man nominated for Best New Artist, although one might grant asterisks …

TMZ reports: Chris Brown was involved in an all-out brawl with Frank Ocean Sunday night, and sources connected with Chris insist Ocean started it. Chris was at Westlake Studio in the L.A. area listening to one of the artists he represents. The sources say as Chris went to leave, Frank Ocean and his crew blocked Chris from leaving. The sources …

The accolades continue to roll in for recently-out R&B star Frank Ocean, who yesterday landed Grammy nominations for Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, and Best Urban Contemporary Album. Others tapped for Best New Artist are Alabama Shakes, Fun, The Lumineers, and Hunter Hayes. More on the rest of the categories: There were no major …

Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange has been named by Spin Magazine as the best album of 2012. He pleasantly mosied into our consciousness a year ago, but this year Frank Ocean Tumblr’d into the tabloid glare (with subtle grace, it must be said). And, in a shocking turn of events, he deserved every last gush and blush of attention. Despite Kendrick …