Obama himself isn’t expected to chime in until the convention this summer. That calculated silence is especially tough for one particular candidate … Obama’s own vice president. Joe Biden’s candidacy is largely predicated on his closeness to Obama, but in 2016, when Biden had pondered running for president, Obama had …
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After not having a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) annual dinner last year, comedy is returning this year with NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” veteran Kenan Thompson and Hasan Minhaj from Netflix’s Patriot Act. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Thompson will host and Minhaj will be the featured …
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Actress Esther Scott has reportedly passed away. According to TMZ, she suffered an apparent heart attack last week. She was 66. Scott is perhaps best known for her role as Tisha’s grandmother in the John Singleton classic Boyz N The Hood. She also appeared on numerous television shows and movies, …
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On February 11, former NBA star Dwyane Wade announced that his 12-year-old child would now be going by the name Zaya and identifies as female. He told Ellen DeGeneres, “Me and my wife, Gabrielle Union, we are proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ community and we’re proud allies …
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An Indiana white college professor who called police to his classroom after a black student wouldn’t change seats will not be teaching for the remainder of the semester, according to ABC News. Ball State University had announced that professor Shaheen Borna, the marketing professor who called the police in this …
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Tyler Perry’s “Madea’s Farewell Play Tour”opened to a pack house during a recent stop in Charlotte, N.C. where fans came to get their final dose of Madea. One of those fans included R&B superstar, Fantasia who, while sitting in the audience, was put on the spot to spread a little …
Read More »Photo: Ian MacNicol (Getty Images) The great ones play through pain. At 8:55 a.m. on Feb. 19, 2018, as Parkland, Fla., residents headed to a local church to mourn the senseless murder of 14-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Alaina Petty, 40 miles away, the president of the United …
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Today, the NAACP announced that Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriters Jill Scott and H.E.R, along with Skip Marley, will perform at the 51st NAACP Images Awards special airing LIVE on BET on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 8pm/7c from Pasadena, California. RELATED: Full List of 2020 NAACP Image Awards Nominees The star-studded …
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Pop Smoke, an up and coming rapper out of New York, was murdered Wednesday morning (Feb. 19) in an apparent home invasion robbery at a house he was renting in Hollywood Hills, California. The Los Angeles Police Department said a shooting was reported around 4:30 a.m. PST at a …
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De Wilde’s background is in photography and music videos; she has built a formidable reputation over the decades for imagery that is stark and indelible. That makes her a smart choice to recreate Austen’s fictional town of Highbury, the bucolic community that Emma Woodhouse (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) presides over …
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