It goes without saying that issues of hue remain present in the Black diaspora.

Indeed, as highlighted in our ‘Word…Light Skin / Dark Skin Debate’, there exists unwavering controversy surrounding the social and commercial representation of “dark” skin and what it means to be “dark” in the modern.

It’s a debate which forms the focus of new mini-documentary ‘Dark Girls’ – by Bill Duke and D. Berry.

Check out the 10-minute teaser of the insightful feature (due in full later this year) below…

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‘The Game’ season 5 continues tomorrow in an all new episode.

Airing at 10pm EST on BET, episode 16 of the hit sitcom sees all of the drama, laughs, and sexy you’ve come to expect from the show.

Peep the sneak peek below…

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‘The Game’ season 5 continues tomorrow in an all new episode.

Airing at 10pm EST on BET, episode 15 of the hit sitcom sees all of the drama, laughs, and sexy you’ve come to expect from the show.

Peep the sneak peek below…

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Pop Princess Britney Spears will be breaking a sweat in her upcoming ‘Twister Dance’ game set to be released this fall.

The 30 year old singer even recorded a brand new auto-tuned remix of ‘Till The World Ends’ for the Hasbro dance game. Of the endorsement Spears told E! News: “As soon as I saw the new Twister Dance game, I knew I wanted to be involved. I think kids will love rocking the spots and dancing to the music as much as my boys and I do. It’s a lot of fun!”

Watch the Femme Fatale’s sneak peak below…

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Nelly Furtado is prepping new single ‘Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)’ for its iTunes release next Monday.

And so as to further amp anticipation, the ‘Maneater’ singer has unwrapped an extended (1 minute).

Get a meatier taste of  what the 1st single from ‘The Spirit Indestructible’ will be serving up. below…

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If you thought season 4 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta was explosive, cop a gander of the reunion special.

Set to air this week, NeNe Leakes and co got things popping at what is sure to be an unmissable show. Peep the teasers above and below…

Your thoughts?

With Nelly Furtado set to release her comeback effort ‘Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)’ next week, she has released an official snippet to tide fans over.

Get a taste of the Darkchild produced cut after the jump…

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‘The Game’ season 5 continues next week in an all new episode.

Airing next Tuesday at 10pm EST on BET, episode 14 of the hit sitcom sees all of the drama, laughs, and sexy you’ve come to expect from the show.

Peep the sneak peek below…

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The drama and hilarity that is The Real Housewives of Atlanta season 4 draws to a close next week on Bravo.

Set to air next Sunday, Episode 20 serves as the hit series’ finale. And in true Housewives fashion, no episode would be complete without a clash of some sort.

Peep the preview above…

Will you be watching?

Justin Bieber lit up Youtube moments ago with a scorching new teaser for his hotly anticipated ‘Boyfriend’ video.

The 18 year old, who today announced that his new sound is “pulling from Hip-Hop”, has seen the minutes-old clip already have thousands of ‘Likes’ and shares

Yes, Bieber-fever is alive and kicking. Peep the cinematic after the jump…

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Having delivered a taste of Monica‘s eagerly awaited ‘New Life’, our friends over at Monica Source have served up more from the singer’s 7th studio album.

Sample the cuts below…

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After whipping up a frenzy with her debut ‘Pink Friday’ in 2010, this week sees Nicki Minaj stake her claim as a formidable chart force with the arrival of her eagerly awaited sophomore set ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded‘.

A pick ‘n’ mix of genres, the project is split loosely in two; a musical melee, the set finds itself divided between songs rolled in Hip-Hop grit and others soaked in Pop fantasy.

Boasting a tracklist as polarised as the artist performing them, the question on the lips of many remains: beyond the wigs, schtick, and “eccentric”, does Nicki deliver on the most important release of her career?

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