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  • Tiger Woods’ Former Caddy: ‘It Was Like I Was His Slave’

    Tiger Woods’ former golfing buddy and caddy Steve Williams is spilling the beans in a new memoir about his relationship with the golf icon, and a lot of it isn’t pretty.  In Williams’ Out of the Rough, he said that he was kept in the dark when Woods’ extramarital affair blew up. In excerpts posted on…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 2, 2015
  • #TLCIsGoingToJailParty Tweets Are Clowning TLC for Their Phantom Kickstarter Album 

    The plan was that TLC were going to use the money raised from a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new album that they promised to release in October of this year. Well, October has come and gone. No new TLC album. Meanwhile, their Kickstarter campaign has raised over $400,000, greatly surpassing their initial goal of…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 2, 2015
  • Jamie Foxx to Quentin Tarantino: Keep Speaking the Truth About Police Brutality

    Quentin Tarantino got himself into a lot of trouble recently when he referred to some deaths at the hands of police officers as “murder” at a rally denouncing police brutality. So much so that police unions across the nation have vowed to boycott his films. Well, he’s got a supporter in one of his former…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 2, 2015
  • I Can’t Have an Orgasm; What’s Wrong With Me?

    I’m 34 years old and I’ve never had an orgasm. I’m a healthy woman. I enjoy intimate relations. What’s wrong with me? —Diane W. There is probably nothing wrong with you! Having an orgasm is not as easy as one might think. One in 10 women have never had an orgasm through sexual intercourse, manual…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 2, 2015
  • Deposition Reveals Bobbi Kristina’s Alleged Drug Use During Final Days

    A deposition taken this fall in a civil lawsuit filed against Bobbi Kristina Brown reveals troubling new details about her alleged drug use during her final days, according to the Washington Post. Danyela D. Bradley, who lived with the 21-year-old at her Atlanta townhouse, said in a Sept. 24, 2015, deposition that she believed Bobbi…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 1, 2015
  • More Than 100,000 Sign Petition to Remove Raven-Symoné From The View

    In the latest update about Raven-Symoné, an online petition is calling for her removal from The View after she intimated last week that a high school student in Columbia, S.C., could have avoided being violently attacked by a school resource officer if she had simply gotten off her phone.    “You are in school, get…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 1, 2015
  • Watch: Spike Lee, Grand Marshal of NYC Marathon, Makes Short Film About the City

    Filmmaker Spike Lee has long been known for his love of New York City. So it was fitting that he became the first New Yorker to serve as grand marshal of Sunday’s New York City Marathon, according to CBS New York. “He was blown away by the fact that we asked him to do it,…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 1, 2015
  • Mini Pope at the White House and Other Kid Halloween Costumes That Were Everything

    From the mini pope at the White House to President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, some kids’ Halloween costumes this year were downright cute and creative, knocking the traditional Cinderella and Batman getups straight out of the box. Here are a few costumes from around the Internet that will give you a chuckle,…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    November 1, 2015
  • Judge Dismisses Manslaughter Charge Against Texas Cop in Shooting of Unarmed Black Man

    A federal judge in Texas this week dismissed a manslaughter charge against a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 32-year-old black man after an attempted bank robbery in 2013, according to the Washington Post. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed the charge against Charles Kleinert in the shooting death of Larry Jackson Jr. in Austin,…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    October 31, 2015
  • NYC EMT Suspended for Helping 7-Year-Old Girl  Who Was Choking

    A New York City EMT has been suspended after stopping his ambulance to rush to the aid of a choking 7-year-old girl at a public elementary school without having been dispatched to the scene, according to Fox News. Despite Qwasi Reid’s valiant effort, the girl, Noelia Echavarria, a second-grader at P.S. 250 in Brooklyn, was declared…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    October 31, 2015
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