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Photo: Patrick McMullan (Getty Images) On Saturday, 200 rare and never before seen works by the famed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat opened to the public at Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building. The “King Pleasure” exhibition, curated by Basquiat’s sisters Jeanine Heriveaux and Lisane Basquiat, along with their stepmother, Nora Fitzpatrick, is an extension …
Read More »Taraji P. Henson and Winnie Harlow Debut New Body Care Lines
The multi-faceted actress Taraji P. Henson adds another venture to her list of accomplishments with the launch of a new skin care line, Body by TPH, a sister line to her Maesa-funded TPH by Taraji hair care products. The new body care line will include 13 different products, ranging from …
Read More »Athens Youth Program, Chess and Community Celebrates Ten Years of Service
Photo: totojang1977 (Shutterstock) A local nonprofit in Athens, GA is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Chess and Community, founded by Lemuel “Life” LeRoche may have just celebrated its tenth anniversary this past March, but was born nearly twenty years ago in the early 2000s. As a Brooklyn, New York …
Read More »Chris Rock Is Keeping His Mouth Shut About the Oscars Slap Until He Secures the Bag
That fateful night at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony sent the world into a frenzy, birthing discourse from every conceivable angle, SNL sketches, the banishment of Will Smith from the Oscars, and everything in between. The one person who has yet to speak on the issue is Chris Rock himself, …
Read More »The Real Cancelled After 8 Seasons
Jeannie Mai Jenkins, left; Tamera Mowry-Housely, Loni Love, and Adrienne Houghton.Photo: David Livingston (Getty Images) On Friday, it was announced that the popular daytime talk show, The Real, had been canceled after eight seasons. The show, which originally aired in 2013, was historic in the fact that it was the …
Read More »The Necklace
When the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam published his collection Tristia in 1922, the Bolshevik government had begun to tighten its grip on artists, pressuring them to use their talent for propaganda. Though he sympathized with the socialist cause, Mandelstam didn’t believe in writing for any political agenda. But he knew …
Read More »Conquer Graphic Design With This Four-Week Course
A good and competent graphic designer will always be in high demand. Virtually every business uses a graphic designer. Everyone from authors to newspaper companies to social media influencers implement graphic design into their line of work. There is no shortage of graphic design opportunities, and there is no shortage …
Read More »August Alsina Seemingly Addresses "Entanglement" With Jada Pinkett Smith In New Song
Photo: Larry French (Getty Images) Following the recent incident which should only have to be referred to from this point on as “the slap,” singer August Alsina seems to have thrown his sneaky link handbook right out of the window. In a new song titled “Shake The World,” Alsina seems …
Read More »Black Virginia Teacher Sues White Student After Continuous Racist Taunts
A local Newport News, Virginia, teacher is suing a former student after incessant racist teasing. Joel Mungo, a 21 year veteran history teacher at Menchville High School, says the constant taunts were unlike anything he’s ever experienced as an educator, reports WAVY. “Someone left a banana at my door. The …
Read More »Dwayne Haskins, Steelers QB and Former Top Draft Pick, Dies At 24
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins (3) warms up before an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Pittsburgh. Haskins died in a car accident in Florida on April 9, 2022, at age 24.Photo: Gene J. Puskar (AP) Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed on …
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