After months of rumors and speculation, Wendy Williams has finally broken her silence about her health and legal battle with Wells Fargo.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ TJ Holmes, Williams said she’s ready to return to work after missing season 14 of her highly successful talk show. “Give me about three months,” she said via phone on Wednesday (March 16). “There are private things that I have to deal with and then I’ll be ready to come back and be free and ready to do my thing.
To celebrate Black Music Month, VIBE spotlights some of music’s most essential timepieces for Gen Y to get hip to FOXY BROWN
Ill Na Na (1996)
Most Slept On: It’s strange that the title track to Foxy’s landmark album would also be the song most slept-on. Ill Na Na was never released as an official single and although Method Man appears on the song, there was no video for the track.
Author, comic book head and all around prolific thinker Ta-Nehisi Coates is adored for his ability to dismantle cemented concepts that are no longer needed in the world. The task fell in is lap yet again while promoting his new book, We Were Eight Years In Power with the topic being one we all know too well; wypipo and the n-word.
Speaking to Evanston Township High School last Tuesday (Nov. 7), Coates was asked by a white student about the n-word.
The opening statements for Bill Cosby’s trial for alleged sexual assault of Andre Constand are set to begin on June 5. And as the new “trial of the century” quickly approaches, a podcast, Cosby Unraveled, will reportedly delve into the life and tainted legacy of America’s once beloved TV dad and comedian.
The forthcoming on-air show, which will be produced by Philadelphia’s local station WHYY, will reportedly “explore Cosby’s beginnings in the projects of North Philadelphia, the heights of his influence, and the causes of his downfall,” according to the station.
O.J. Simpson has finally addressed Jay-Z‘s “The Story of O.J.” and contends the emcee misquoted him.
During a brief conversation with Rare Clothing Apparel, fashion designer Augustus Lymon asked “The Juice” about his thoughts on the 4:44 single’s lyrics. The former NFL player claimed the billionaire “didn’t say it right.”
“Well, first of all, [Jay-Z] didn’t say it right,” he asserted. “When Johnny [Cochran] was talking to me about it, and all that was going on was ‘Black, Black, Black,’ I said man, f**k being Black, this is me.