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Gabe: As though you’re strangers. Andy: You take 20 paces, then turn around and come back. You still don’t acknowledge each other till the very last second. Then you just stick up your hand, give a high five, and walk home. Gabe: You can’t speak. Andy: There’s no acknowledgment of …

To watch the battle, viewers can begin streaming at 8 p.m. EST this evening via the Verzuz TV Instagram page as well as on Apple Music. The Ashanti vs. Keyshia Cole Verzuz battle was postponed in December after Ashanti announced she tested positive for the coronavirus. The singers rescheduled the …

TLS Sports has announced a partnership with Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul and his CP3 Basketball Academy. The two entities will be hosting The HBCU CON, which is scheduled to take place this summer in North Carolina. The HBCU CON is a weeklong basketball and academic experience for elite …

Photo: DW labs Incorporated (Shutterstock) I do not remember the first time I went to Red Lobster. Which is fine. I also do not remember the first time I saw Halle Berry. But I know that my reaction was the same: How does something so perfect exist and are there …

Writing these personal histories of public figures can be complicated. The historian Richard Aldous examines the work of one influential presidential biographer in Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was a prolific writer, chronicling the presidencies of figures such as Andrew Jackson and John F. Kennedy, but he was …

Gabourey Sidibe is opening up about her struggles with mental health and says they began at a young age. The Empire star joined Taraji P. Henson on her Facebook Watch show Peace of Mind with Taraji, and says she first developed depression growing up, which snowballed into anxiety and eventually …

Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden’s choice for U.S. Treasury Secretary, will help stock markets achieve record highs this year, predicts the head of one of the world’s largest independent financial consulting and advisory firms. That bullish prophecy just came from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, which has …

Shaquille O’Neal rarely turns down a job and now he has a new gig as the Director of Community Relations at the Henry County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. There aren’t many details but according to WSB-TV, Sheriff Reginald Scandrett said O’Neal will help bridge “the gap between the community and …

Photo: Nathan Howard (Getty Images) Portland is just weird, y’all. I don’t know how else to explain the fact eight people were arrested for damaging a Democratic Party office and an ICE facility after President Joe Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday. ABC News reports that while the majority of protests in …

Gabourey Sidibe is opening up about her struggles with mental health and says they began at a young age. The Empire star joined Taraji P. Henson on her Facebook Watch show Peace of Mind with Taraji, and says she first developed depression growing up, which snowballed into anxiety and eventually …