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Clueless actress Stacey Dash and former Fox News commentator is opening up about drug addiction and more. In an episode of Dr. Oz that aired Thursday (Oct. 14), Dash said she had a severe addiction to pills, revealing she consumed “18 to 20” Vicodin a day. The high price of …

Comedian and actor Damon Wayans announced his support for Dave Chappelle, whose latest Netflix comedy special is stirring up conversations around transphobia.  Since the release of Chappelle’s “The Closer” on Oct. 5, concerns of discrimination against the transgender community have been raised amongst some viewers.  Chappelle has also garnered support …

Photo: Michael Reaves (Getty Images) Looking to follow in his father’s NBA footsteps, Zaire Wade, son of three-time NBA champion Dwayne Wade, is taking his talents to the pros. Per Shams Charania of The Athletic, the 19-year-old will forgo college scholarship offers and instead sign with the Salt Lake City …

We know more than ever about how to use boosters, but still very little about when to use them. Leon Neal / Getty ; The Atlantic In this week’s installment of the booster chronicles, the plot is picking up. An advisory committee to the FDA began a two-day meeting today …

When Jeremy accuses Mr. Brown of knowingly selling him a malfunctioning car, Anastasia urges a dejected Reginald to come out of retirement for a day to preside over their legal dispute. Source link

School board members in Virginia Beach are attempting to ban the literary works of the late great novelist Toni Morrison. School board members Victoria Manning and Laura Hughes have banned together to have four books removed from curriculums due to the “pornographic nature” found in the reading, The Daily Beast …

Tziarra King, left, Ifeoma Onumonu, and Imani Dorsey of the Black Women’s Players Collective.Photo: Adidas When the National Women’s Soccer League finally returned to play last summer in the aftermath of the officer-related murder of George Floyd, dozens of players used the league’s Challenge Cup tournament as a platform to …

Ricarlo Flanagan, who appeared in Shameless and Last Comic Standing, has died at 40 years old.  Flanagan’s agent Stu Golfman of KMR Talent told Variety that he died of COVID, “Sadly this pandemic has taken the life of an extremely talented performer and even nicer human being. Ricarlo will be …

You know there’s drama in research circles—or at least what qualifies as drama in research circles—when someone writes an open letter. Earlier this year, that someone was Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland at College Park. His request: that Pew Research Center, the nonpartisan “fact tank,” “do …