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Photo: ABC/Matt Sayles In case there’s not enough Steve Harvey on your TV, ABC is bringing you more with its new courtroom show Judge Steve Harvey, which premieres Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 8 pm. As previously reported by The Root, the 10 episode comedic reality series follows as, “Real-life people …

D. Hill, a music producer perhaps best known for his work on Drake and Future’s single “Life is Good,” has passed away, reports say. He was 25. Hill was found dead on Thursday (October 14), according to iHeart.com. Fellow producer Mojo Krazy tweeted about the tragic news, simply writing, “RIP …

Fresh off a performance of “Unloyal” with Summer Walker, singer Ari Lennox was arrested Monday morning at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.  She wrote several times about the incident on Twitter. Her first tweet read, “F**k Amsterdam security. They hate black people.”  Singer Ari Lennox attends the recent “2021 Soul Train Awards” taping …

Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. seems to have parlayed his new contract with the Los Angeles Rams into a partnership to help promote CashApp as a Bitcoin platform. Beckham was signed by the Rams less than one week after his previous team, the Cleveland Browns, released him on Nov. 5. Last …

Kanye West and Virgil Abloh after the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 21, 2018 in Paris, France.Photo: Pascal Le Segretain (Getty Images) The rise of Virgil Abloh was swift, and in many ways surreal—a word the late creative used in reference …

Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, has called the travel bans imposed on his country “scientifically unjustified.”  He made the comments on Sunday in an address to the nation, his first since the Omicron variant was detected in the country.  “The only thing the prohibition on travel will do,” …

Pop Smoke was tragically murdered in a home invasion on February 19, 2020. Corey Walker, the one adult suspect who was charged with murder for the home-invasion robbery, encouraged the use of a flower vase to be used by the 15-year-old alleged gunman instead of a gun.  Walker, 20, appeared …

Susie Troxler, a 50-year old woman from Greensboro, North Carolina, recently gave birth to a baby for the first time. She and her 61-year old husband Tony are very excited about being parents to their miracle baby. Since the couple got married in 2008, they have always dreamed of having …

Photo: Vadym Pastukh (Shutterstock) At the 2004 Unity: Journalists of Color Conference, the late Gwen Ifill famously coined the term “missing white woman’s syndrome.” While participating in the conference’s “Media Coverage of National Security” panel, Ifill commented “if there is a missing white woman, you’re going to cover that every …

ESPN analyst Jay Williams is facing heavy backlash after defending NBA superstar Kyrie Irving’s decision to not get the COVID-19 vaccine.  In footage posted by TMZ, Williams says he’s been receiving death wishes from people following his take on Kyrie’s decision not to get the vaccine.  New York, Los Angeles, …