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Now that Kanye West is a devout Christian who doesn’t allow cursing around him and requires collaborators to not have premarital sex while working with him, he’s taking his newfound faith a step further by denouncing his old music. Kanye West released his highly anticipated new album Jesus Is …

This omission might be read as a failure of research or of rhetoric. The book, like Williams’s first, is a confused and confusing text, full of clichéd turns of phrase that match its facile conclusion. (Of his decision to marry a French woman, for example, Williams writes that he “feared …

A recent paper asks whether Chinese herbal medicine might reduce hot flashes relating to menopause. Although there is hope, we need much more data. Source link

Rosie Perez is adding her thoughts to the ongoing conversation around Black and Latinx identities, which resurfaced recently due to comments from Fat Joe, drama on Basketball Wives and Gina Rodriguez’s Instagram karaoke N-word moment.  During an interview with Essence last Saturday, while receiving the Hispanicize’s Latinavator Award at the …

What’s it like being TV’s most in-demand actress? We’re sure Taraji P. Henson can speak volumes about her road to stardom, and she’s opening up about her enduring journey in the November issue of Essence. On the cover, she rocks her signature sleek bob with a sharp center part and …

On Friday (October 25), a memorial service and funeral were held in honor of longtime Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, and Donald Trump was a no-show at both. A copy of the president’s schedule was made public this morning and revealed that Trump had nothing planned until 11:40 a.m. when he …

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Written by Jerry L. Barrow There is a moment in Dolemite Is My Name when Rudy Ray Moore, perfectly portrayed by Eddie Murphy, is staring up longingly at a movie screen. He and his friends are watching a “comedy” at a local theater, but he’s not laughing. He thinks he …

Alicia Keys is getting ready to run the 2015 TCS New York City Marathon for the first time on November 1, but this isn’t the singer’s first 26.2-mile run. In an essay for Refinery29, Keys recounts her experience running a marathon in Greece in 2007 and deciding that she’ll probably …

In mid-October, Chris Williams Jr. was all smiles at the ribbon cutting and grand relaunch of his Subway franchise store in East Cobb, an affluent northern suburb of Atlanta. That’s a long way from where he found himself just 18 months earlier. Believe it or not, Chris was living out …