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It may be the off-season for professional football but Seattle Seahawks quarterback, Russell Wilson hasn’t stopped working since the season ended! According to Variety, the football player and his wife, Ciara, have signed a first-look television and film deal with Amazon Studios. The married couple intends on developing and producing …

Nov. 3, 1971 File PhotoPhoto: Associated Press (AP) She’s been immortalized on a stamp (albeit amid some controversy), as a Barbie, as the subject of a Broadway-bound script, and even a Google Doodle. And of course, writer-activist Maya Angelou lives eternally in our literary imagination. Now, the renaissance woman will …

Whoopi Goldberg always brings her humor to The View, and one of the latest episodes was no different.  During the Tuesday (May 11) episode, Goldberg was not the most enthused about one of the hot topics of the day when her other co-hosts started discussing the possibilities of Ben Affleck …

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Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams is getting her own three-part Bravo special headed to TV screens soon.  According to Page Six, the special was reportedly “greenlit” months ago before Williams’s news on May 10. She is now engaged to her former co-star’s Falynn Guobadia‘s estranged husband, Simon Guobadia.  …

President Joe Biden announced three U.S. Court Of Appeals judicial nominees and three District Court judicial nominees in his third slate of judicial nominations. According to the White House, the nominees “will bring deep credentials and qualifications to the federal bench, as well as career-long devotion to our Constitution and …

Phylicia Rashad, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” can now add university dean to her list of career accomplishments.   According to The Washington Post, the school announced Wednesday the multi-award winning actress and director will be dean of her alma mater Howard University’s College of Fine …

Screenshot: De La Soul ‘A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays’ (Tommy Boy Records) You cannot be a fan of 90s era hip hop, especially of the Native Tongues variety without being familiar with the name Vinia Mojica. The singer/songwriter from Queens, New York, showed up in an impressive amount of …

LeVar Burton has launched a book club! The storied actor created the LeVar Burton Book Club in partnership with Fable, as described on its app and website as a means to discover, read and discuss books, and help build “human connections,” according to Yahoo News. “As a lifelong advocate for …

This article was published online on May 13, 2021. The suburban gentry of Chevy Chase, Maryland, had some difficulty making sense of Brett Kavanaugh’s descent into villainy that fall. He had always seemed so nice and nonthreatening to his neighbors, so normal—the khaki-clad carpool dad who coached the girls’ basketball …