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Angela Simmons is teaming up with Bow Wow, and this time, it’s for business. During a preview of Thursday’s episode of Growing Up Hip Hop, via Too Fab, the young entrepreneur revealed she is collaborating with her former boyfriend while chatting with her brother, JoJo Simmons. “I be talking to …

Almost 250 small businesses received grants of $10,000 on Thursday as part of Verizon’s $7.5 million Small Business Recovery Fund to help struggling businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic. Of the recipients, 62% are women-owned businesses, 96% are minority-owned, 12% are veteran-owned, and 87% are in distressed locations. “Verizon recognizes how …

Screenshot: Fox & Friends (@revrrlewis via Twitter) A twisted tale only recently came to our attention, but feels especially relevant today as Paula Deen and her loyal following celebrate her new weekly Fox & Friends’ segment, “America Cooks Together”—you know, because Paula Deen is such a great American unifier. But …

Read: A baby planet is born “It’s an unexplored area,” says Johanna Teske, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, who was not involved in the new research. According to theories of planet formation, a baby planet’s position inside a protoplanetary disk dictates what kind of world it turns …

O.T. Genasis dropped a new song today called “I Look Good” and also released its accompanying music video. The video finds the California rapper bored as hell on day 69 of self-isolation and in need of some self-encouragement, and what better way to lift your spirits than to look …

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Nekesa Mumbi Moody is pictured in an undated photo. (Credit: Nekesa Mumbi Moody/ Valence Media) The Hollywood Reporter has named Nekesa Mumbi Moody as its new Editorial Director, a history-making move that makes the veteran journalist the first Black woman to take on the top editorial role at the prolific …

Arlan Hamilton, the Silicon Valley-based maverick and founder of Backstage Capital, couldn’t have known when she cut her deal with Penguin Random House that her first book would be released in the midst of a pandemic. It’s available next week, on Cinco de Mayo, unlike the many other books slated …

Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) If you went to bed last night thinking, “Boyyyyyy, would I love a new Drake mixtape!” then today’s your lucky day, because the 6 God has emerged from his “50,000-square-foot ultra-luxe pleasure dome” with a new project in tow. On Friday, at exactly midnight, October’s …

A woman from Kazakhstan was reportedly killed after she fell more than 100 feet off a cliff in Turkey while posing for a photo to celebrate the end of the area’s coronavirus lockdown. 31-year-old Olesia Suspitsina was out hiking with a friend Sunday (Apr. 26) in Duden Park—located in …