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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, center, flanked by Andrew Steward, left, Ransom Watkins (behind Mosby) and Alfred Chestnut (green jacket).Screenshot: Washington Post When I was 16, my mother and my next-door neighbor, who we called “Crow,” dropped me off for my first year of college. I thought my mother would …

Actress and former Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle has been a hero to many and a villain to others, especially her haters in the British press, but she is looking to take some of that fighting spirit to the big screen.  According to The Daily Mail, Markle is very interested …

This primary season has wrecked the idea that momentum lasts more than a few milliseconds, and given life to another grand theory of politics: Demographics are destiny. Buttigieg and Klobuchar, whose appeal had always skewed to white voters, exceeded their national polling averages in the very white states of Iowa …

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss is adding yet another job to her very lengthy lists of projects. The former Xscape singer is getting another spin-off on Bravo. Burress’ mother, Joyce Jones (affectionately known on the show as Mama Joyce) and her two aunts, Nora and Bertha will be …

An Alabama elementary school teacher has been charged with two felonies for having sex with a high school student. 22-year-old Catherine Lynn Coffey was arrested on Friday (Feb. 28) and charged with one count of being a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student and engaging …

Tracee Ellis Ross, for the first time, will step into the spotlight as a singer in her new film The High Note. She plays a superstar singer named Grace Davis. The story follows Grace Davis who initially shies away from making new music in favor of playing her older music …

Everyone knows Wendy Williams loves her glamour but a luxury department store did not roll out the welcome mat for the talk show host. The 55-year-old media personality opened up to her talk show audience about a racial profiling incident. On today’s episode of The Wendy Williams Show, she opened …

Photo: Shutterstock Every week I keep hoping that maybe this will be the one where I don’t have to talk about kids being trash. It’s only Monday and this already ain’t the week According to KMOV, students at Hixson Middle School in Webster Groves, Missouri sent a racist meme to …

Tracee Ellis Ross, for the first time, will step into the spotlight as a singer in her new film The High Note. She plays a superstar singer named Grace Davis. The story follows Grace Davis who initially shies away from making new music in favor of playing her older music …

* « IDEAS AND ARGUMENTS » (DAVID BECKER / REUTERS) 1.  “But there’s a fine line between emulation and mimicry, and if voters pick up the wrong signals, candidates risk being viewed as inauthentic.” Pete Buttigieg’s speech announcing the end of his presidential bid echoed a 2008 Barack Obama—but while …