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  • ‘Calm’ May Not Fit Country’s Mood, but It’s Obama’s Only Choice

    Sometimes, even when I suspect that he knows it will hurt him, President Barack Obama does not follow the script. The evening of the day when terrorists struck in Belgium, the president and his family attended a Major League Baseball exhibition game in Cuba. Why didn’t he rush back to Washington, D.C., or to Belgium…

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  • CoverGirl Releases a Makeup Collection Inspired by the Ladies of Empire

    The leading ladies of Fox’s Empire have inspired CoverGirl to release a makeup collection based on their looks. The forthcoming Empire line will replicate the glamour looks of Serayah (who plays Tiana), Grace Gealey (Anika), Gabourey Sidibe (Becky) and Kaitlin Doubleday (Rhonda) on the show. According to the YBF, Anika’s look is all about a fierce cat eye and dramatic red…

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  • Kelly Rowland Describes All the Times Makeup Artists Botched Her Chocolate Face 

    Kelly Rowland told Essence magazine Monday that she’s coming out with a makeup line that will leave chocolate-hued girls very pleased.  “My makeup artist Sheika Daley and I are actually starting a makeup line we’re making sure we make, well, we’re starting off with lashes, and then we’re going to have it grow for all women,”…

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  • Loretta Devine Says Waiting to Exhale Sequel May Still Be in the Works

    When Whitney Houston died in 2012, fans of the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale thought its sequel was officially kaput.  But during an interview with Hollywood Today Live, Loretta Devine, who played one of the four lead characters in the iconic romantic drama, alongside Houston, Angela Bassett and Lela Rochon, suggested that folks might still…

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  • Obama Legacy: A First Lady Like No Other  

    Code name: Renaissance. How apropos that first lady Michelle Obama’s Secret Service code sums up her life and persona perfectly. She is indeed a Renaissance woman in that she is accomplished, refined, has far-ranging talents and seemingly does it all: (working) mother, loving wife, dutiful daughter. Twice-Ivy League-educated lawyer and slayer of fashion all day,…

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  • Watch: Ga. Weather Man Weaves Phife Dawg’s Lyrics Into His Traffic Report to Pay Respect

    A Georgia meteorologist by the name of Mark Arum, who works at WSB-TV, incorporated a few of Phife Dawg’s lyrics into his weather report, Wednesday morning, to pay his respect to the legendary Queens MC. Check it out below. It’s just one of the many ways people all over the nation are showing their love…

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  • The Most Dope, Tribed-Out Social Media Reactions to Phife Dawg’s Passing

    Hip-hop lost a Queens, N.Y., legend Wednesday in the passing of Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor—one-quarter of the legendary rap group A Tribe Called Quest. In the tree of hip-hop, Tribe was inarguably the branch that sprouted the leaves we now know as the Fugees, De La Soul, Kanye West, Drake, Mos Def, Common, Kendrick Lamar,…

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  • Tracee Ellis Ross Reveals What She Did to Gain Self-Acceptance

    Tracee Ellis Ross is always dropping jewels about how to live your best life. During a panel discussion Monday hosted by Marie Claire magazine in San Francisco, Ross revealed that accepting her kinky, coily hair was the trigger that enabled her to live in the moment and accept herself completely and fully, WWD reports. “When…

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  • Homeland and the Brussels Attacks: When Life and Art Imitate Each Other

    Most of the world woke up Tuesday morning to news that a wave of terrorist attacks had rocked Brussels. Explosions went off in a train station and an airport, killing more than 30 people and wounding at least 230, the New York Times reports. After that news settled in, another thought may have crept into the…

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  • The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: We, the Jury … Have Had Enough of This Mess

    At the district attorney’s office, Christopher Darden is getting ripped a new one by his big boss Gil Garcetti, who calls the glove demonstration “the most colossal disaster I’ve ever seen in courtroom practice.” Marcia Clark tries to help Darden out by looking at the bright side: They still have the DNA—which, Garcetti yells, no one…

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