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Vanessa Williams Marries Fiance at Fourth of July Ceremony
The third time’s the charm: Singer-actress Vanessa Williams married fiance Jim Skrip during a ceremony in front of friends and family July 4 in New York, according to People magazine. This is the third marriage for Williams, 52, who has four children with exes Ramon Hervey II and Rick Fox, the report says. She and…
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Obama Poised to Commute Sentences for Scores of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
President Barack Obama is slated to sign orders in the next few weeks to release scores of federal inmates imprisoned on nonviolent drug charges, reports the New York Times. Upon signing the orders, Obama will likely reduce more sentences at one time than any president in nearly 50 years, the report says. The total number…
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Venus and Serena Williams to Square Off at Wimbledon
Tennis’ star sisters Venus and Serena Williams have played tennis together forever, but they played against each other in a professional setting for the first time 17 years ago at the Australian Open in a game that was won by the elder sister. The two have played at eight grand-slam finals, according to the Daily…
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Star Trek Icon Apologizes for Clarence Thomas ‘Blackface’ Slur
Star Trek legend George Takei has apologized for calling Clarence Thomas a “clown in blackface” following the Supreme Court justice’s dissent in last week’s landmark same-sex-marriage ruling, according to CNN. “I was still seething, and I referred to him as a ‘clown in blackface’ to suggest that he had abdicated and abandoned his heritage,” Takei…
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Watch: Man Breaks Down When Judge Recognizes Him as Former Classmate
Arthur Booth, 49, was in Miami-Dade Circuit Court for a bond hearing Thursday when the judge recognized him as a former middle school classmate, triggering a tearful outburst from the defendant, according to the Huffington Post. Booth, a burglary suspect, appeared before Florida judge Mindy Glazer, who at the end of the proceedings asked him…
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Malia Obama Lands Internship on Lena Dunham’s Girls
Elder first daughter Malia Obama has been seen on the set of Lena Dunham’s hit HBO show Girls in Brooklyn, N.Y., since landing her second television entertainment internship, reports the Daily Mail. Malia, who turns 17 on the Fourth of July, was on the set of Girls on Thursday at Aurora Ristorante, the Mail writes,…
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Baltimore Probes ‘Enjoy Your Ride’ Sign in Police Van
Just months after Baltimore resident Freddie Gray was fatally injured while being transported in the back of a police van, city officials are investigating a photograph of a sign inside the rear door of a similar transport vehicle that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz we sure will,” CNN reports. The image has emerged amid smoldering…
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Take Down That Flag, Mayor of Columbia, SC, Demands
I was just a boy in school the first time I read the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail, trying to imagine what it must have been like to live through those events and be part of a movement that fundamentally redefined who we are as a nation and a people. I…
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Blogger Necole Bitchie Says ‘It’s Time to Move On’
In a letter to her followers that she admitted was sure to make her cry, entertainment blogger Necole Bitchie announced, “It’s time for me to move on.” She will no longer run the website NecoleBitchie.com, which was founded in 2008 by Necole Kane and calls itself “the premiere urban celebrity gossip and entertainment news site on…
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Fire at Historic SC Black Church Ruled ‘Natural’
There was reportedly no criminal intent behind the fire overnight Tuesday at a historic black church in Greeleyville, S.C. According to local investigators, along with the the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the blaze at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church must have been sparked by “natural causes,” according to reporting by NBC News.…
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