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  • Need Relationship Advice? Rev. Run and Tyrese Will Be Dishing It Out on a TV Show for OWN

    Rev. Run—born Joseph Simmons—is not ashamed to speak about his days as a philandering hip-hop pioneer and how he’s much happier now being faithful and married. Tyrese Gibson openly speaks about the mistakes he’s made in relationships, especially as a famous actor and R&B singer. Both men have already teamed up and released a relationship…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 12, 2015
  • Watch: Car-Crash Eyewitness Delivers Eccentric Account of the Accident; Segment Goes Viral

    Brace yourself. The following interview will likely join the ranks of Sweet Brown’s “Oh Lord Jesus, it’s a fire” and Antoine Dodson’s “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife” soundbites that were made during news segments that went viral. A local Mississippi TV station covering a car accident interviewed Courtney Barnes, who wore a lime-green ponytail…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 12, 2015
  • Fame Is Coming Back to TV on Lifetime

    Some stories can be told again and again and again. And for American audiences, it seems that bearing witness to several dozen high school students clawing their way to stardom by learning to dance, sing and act will never get old. That’s probably why Lifetime is bringing Fame back to the small screen, according to Broadway…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 12, 2015
  • Twitter Hilariously Drags the Man Who Called 911 on the Pool-Party Teens With #SeanToon911

    David Eric Casebolt isn’t the only one catching flak for the epic disaster that occurred after the McKinney, Texas, pool party.  Sharing in the “fun” is McKinney’s Sean Toon, who picked up the phone and called 911 on the teens who were in the McKinney suburban neighborhood because, he said, they were “not supposed to…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 11, 2015
  • Watch: Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson on Sex, Race and Hanging On to Acting by a Thread

    Probably one of the worst parts about stereotypes is when the person being stereotyped starts believing the hype.  During a candid roundtable discussion hosted by the Hollywood Reporter about what the acting profession is like for women in Hollywood, Viola Davis admitted that she cringed when she first saw herself on TV playing Annalise Keating…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 11, 2015
  • Black Parents Are the Real MVPs

    There’s more to being a black parent than beating our kids, grieving for them or hollering at them. This may seem like an obvious point, but I’m compelled to make it after what we’ve witnessed recently in a spate of high-profile news events. Images of black moms “whooping” their kids in public or expressing anger…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 11, 2015
  • Woman Sues Dwight Howard, Says He’s Not Making Child Support Payments

    It’s funny to think that NBA star Dwight Howard came into the league in 2004 as the goody-two-shoes athlete who was going to bring his Christian values to a sport overrun by bravado, groupies, fast money and a lavish lifestyle. Boy, has he fallen short of that. Now a woman named Tiffany has filed a…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 11, 2015
  • Kelly Rowland Channels Diana Ross, Sade and Other Divas in Hair Cover Shoot

    Kelly Rowland got her hair (well, weave, but whatever) blown out, curled, braided, slicked back, straightened and bumped to achieve a few of the signature hair looks donned by pop-culture icons Diana Ross, Sade, Bianca Jagger and Farida Khelfa Goude.  In a photo shoot with Mane Addicts, Rowland described her hair journey from the cute,…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 11, 2015
  • Calif. Students Described as Future ‘Trash Collators’ in School Yearbook Say It Was Racist

    Seniors at Berkeley High School in California were shocked and insulted when they got their yearbooks and saw that students in the AMPS program—the Academy of Medicine and Public Service—were described as future “trash collators.” The word “innovators” had been replaced, NBC Bay Area reports. Robael Gizachew, a senior at the school, said he definitely thinks…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 10, 2015
  • The ‘Pool-Party Cop’ Was Sued in 2008 for Racial Profiling and Using Excessive Force

    This isn’t David Eric Casebolt’s first rodeo with regard to accusations of harboring racial biases and exerting excessive force with African Americans.  Casebolt—the McKinney, Texas, police corporal who was initially suspended, and then resigned, after a video went viral showing him violently shoving a teenage girl to the ground after a pool party—was sued back in…

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    Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele






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    June 10, 2015
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