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Oprah Winfrey Bets on Black and Wins
In a revealing Q&A with New York magazine’s Vulture.com, Oprah Winfrey discusses how she took her television network, OWN, from life support to profitable. There were numerous factors, chief among them bringing in trusted charges Sheri Salata and Erik Logan to help right the ship, and giving her partners at Discovery Communications more of a…
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Tristan Wilds Sings After 'The Wire'
Ever since he captivated audiences as Michael Lee on HBO’s The Wire, it seemed inevitable that Tristan Wilds would have a formidable acting career. But as he tells the Daily News, acting was never the plan; singing was his focus. Under the name “Mack Wilds,” a new persona he’s tailored specifically for the microphone, the…
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Isaiah Washington on Life After the F-Word
It’s been more than six years since Isaiah Washington was unceremoniously dropped from the hit TV series Grey’s Anatomy for allegedly insulting co-star T.R. Knight with a derogatory gay slur. Since then, the actor has failed to secure a role as popular as Dr. Preston Burke, his character on the Shonda Rhimes-created medical drama, which…
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Pharrell Speaks on 'Blurred Lines' Lawsuit
Thus far, 2013 has been a renaissance of sorts for the music career of Pharrell Williams. His collaborations with others — and even his own songs, in which he is front and center — have been all over the radio and all up in the clubs, but no song has been more omnipresent than “Blurred…
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Acclaimed Black Author Jesmyn Ward on New Memoir
For her third book, Jesmyn Ward, 36, probably could have written about anything she wanted. With two novels under her belt, including the 2011 National Book Award winner Salvage the Bones, it is safe to say that Ward is one of the brightest stars in the literary world, a black woman from the South with…
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Sororities Accused of Discrimination at University of Alabama
It’s been more than 10 years since a black student made it through the recruitment process of a sorority at the University of Alabama. This year it seemed that a change was inevitable when a black student with a flawless résumé applied, according to the New York Times, but even she didn’t make the cut.…
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Michelle Obama Now Telling the Nation to Drink Up
Michelle Obama would like to see people pop more bottes and raise more glasses — of water. The first lady announced that the latest campaign in her initiative to combat childhood obesity will focus on getting people to drink more of Earth’s most natural thirst quencher, according to the Associated Press. The message is straightforward and…
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Is NBA Player Raising the Next Serena Williams?
When 7-year-old Sacha Marie is not watching her father, New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler, score and rebound on the basketball court, her time is spent playing on a different type of court and watching a different type of athlete. Chandler told the New York Post he brings Sacha Marie to the U.S. Open to watch…
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Did Cory Booker Make Up Another Sad Story?
The National Review continues to tell Cory Booker that his stories need more real people. First it was Booker’s imaginary drug-dealer friend, T-Bone; now it turns out the Newark, N.J., mayor, who is running in a special election for U.S. senator, may have created another fictitious tale to boost his superhero profile. According to the…
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Care for a Glass of Mandela's Wine?
While Nelson Mandela is recovering after a lengthy hospital stay in South Africa, his daughter Makaziwe Mandela and granddaughter Tukwini Mandela will be toasting him this weekend thousands of miles away at the two-day Toast of Brooklyn Wine and Food Festival in New York City. But they won’t have to raise just any old glass…
