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Hollywood has long been a hostile place for Black actors, a trend that has only recently started to shift. But for Leonard Roberts, who starred in the first season of the 2006 hit series Heroes, experience with racism on set nearly sidelined his career. In a guest essay for Variety, …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Right now the Sony Playstation 5 is the hottest commodity on the market, especially with Christmas being right around the corner. Everyone wants one and is literally willing to sell their souls to get their hands on the popular gaming console. Things …

Understanding that homeownership is one key in creating generational wealth, Rhonesha Byng is teaching millennial women how to become homeowners through a new online series in partnership with Bank of America. Byng is the founder and CEO of Her Agenda, a digital media platform providing career-driven women resources to advance …

Filmmakers for the highly anticipated Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody have officially cast their lead.  According to Deadline, Naomi Ackie, 28, will play the music legend in the upcoming film, reportedly releasing Thanksgiving 2022.  “We spent the better part of the last year in an exhaustive search …

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Photo: Jonathan Weiss (Shutterstock) The Supreme Court has agreed to take on an antitrust case that could either tighten or substantially loosen the limits of how much student-athletes are allowed to be paid. This will be the first time in over 30 years the court will rule on a case …

Written by Demetria Wambia Backed by producer Denzel Washington, Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is directed by George C. Wolfe who transformed August Wilson’s 1982 stage play into a lush film adaptation. The film opens in the sweltering, hot Chicago summer of 1927 where racial tensions are high, and Ma Rainey (expertly played by Viola Davis) is …

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Indirect questions yield a somewhat different story, however. A 2015 Healthline survey revealed that more than 18 percent of people say they are very stressed during the holidays, and another nearly 44 percent say they are somewhat stressed. Similarly, a 2006 survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a polling firm, …

Model and actress Kim Porter passed away over two years ago at the age of 47 years. Yesterday (Dec. 15) would have been her 50th birthday and Diddy celebrated her life on social media. Diddy wrote on Instagram, “Words can’t explain how much we miss you but today is your …