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Netflix is postponing a virtual preview event of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which will now be known as one of Chadwick Boseman’s final films. PEOPLE reports that the push back comes after Boseman’s sudden death of colon cancer on Friday (August 28). While the event has been delayed, the release …

Photo: Sue Ogrocki (AP) For years, residents of Greenwood, the neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., that was once home to Black Wall Street, have attempted to bring the area back to its former glory. Once a thriving hub of Black prosperity, the neighborhood is now most famous for being the site …

Chadwick Boseman’s death hit his co-stars and colleagues especially hard, since many of them did not know he was suffering from colon cancer while he filmed Black Panther, Da 5 Bloods and other projects. In fact, Clark Peters — who starred alongside Boseman in the Spike Lee film Da 5 …

MASKS 4. Pulling aside your mask to talk is counterproductive. In fact, consider not talking at all: Derek Thompson points out that silence in public spaces could actually be an effective antiviral strategy. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / GETTY The day in news, in three sentences: (1) Donald Trump is …

Tyler Perry is officially a member of the Three Comma Club. According to Forbes, the actor and entrepreneur is now worth a billion dollars. The publication arrived at the conclusion by breaking down Perry’s assets, including $300 million in cash and investments, a content library worth $320 million, his sprawling …

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Daniel McMahonPhoto: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office A white man from Florida (you already know what kind of story this is about to be) has earned himself nearly three and a half years in prison for cyberstalking and threatening a Black Lives Matter activist who planned on running for public office. …

Markey’s team chafes at the suggestion—made by Marsh and former Representative Barney Frank, among others—that he reinvented himself, or that he campaigned as somebody he’s not. “With all due respect,” the senator’s campaign manager, John Walsh, told me on the eve of the primary, “I think it is one of …

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Tributes to the late actor Chadwick Boseman have been pouring in across social media since the Black Panther star passed away August 28, but a group of fans have found a way to honor the late star. Several petitions are circulating to replace a confederate statue in Anderson, South Carolina …