The comedian — whose latest special, ‘Good Grief,’ arrives on Prime Video on June 4 — credits lessons from his mom as his inspiration: "She taught me to take my broken heart and turn it into art"

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Grief has been Marlon Wayans' biggest motivator recently.

"That was my girl," he says of his mother Elvira, who died in 2020. As the youngest of 10 siblings, "I was her baby," he adds, opening up to PEOPLE in this wee...

The actor got support from his girlfriend Angie Gonzalez and their daughters on the red carpet

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Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Martin Lawrence's guest, girlfriend Angie Gonzalez, as his ex-wife Shamicka Gibbs.

Martin Lawrence stepped out with his family while launching the latest Bad Boys.

On May ...

The comedian — whose new standup special debuts June 4 on Amazon Prime — opens up about his parenting journey

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Marlon Wayans isn't the same dad he was a few years ago.

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SZA releases cover of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

Late Friday night, SZA delivered an impressive cover to an iconic record. This is to Eminem’s 2002 “Lose Yourself.” This song was initially released in 2002, as it appeared on the “8 Mile” soundtrack.

Furthermore, fans went on to applaud SZA’s cover to Lose Yourself. This comes comes amid the wait for her highly anticipated “Lana” album. In SZA’s Instagram post, she ex...

Chris Brown’s parents divorced when he was 7

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Chris Brown’s parents, Joyce Hawkins and Clinton Brown, have been by his side through his ups and downs over the years.

After being discovered at the age of 13 and releasing his debut self-titled album in 2005 at 16, Chris experienced a meteoric rise in the world of R&B. Since then, he’s released 10 more albums including 2011’s Grammy Award-winning F.A.M.E

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You might think that once you’re dead, you no longer have to worry about maps and directions (that’s one silver lining, at least).

Well, no such luck for the Ancient Egyptians, who were buried with detailed guides on how to navigate the underworld.

These so-called “Books of the Dead” were filled with spells and instructions, and considered a form of supernatural “travel insurance”, Sara Cole, an antiquities expert at the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA, told the New York Times.

Now, it’...

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Louis Gossett Jr, who has died aged 87, was the first black man to win an Oscar for best-supporting actor after putting naval aviation cadet Richard Gere through his paces in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); he was only the third black person to win any Oscar after Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939) and Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field (1963).

           

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Kali Reis does not take her identity for granted.

"I'm the first generation of my line who was actually able to grow up in the culture," said the True Detective: Night Country star of being from the Seaconke Wampanoag people. "My great-grandmother, grandmother, mother were taught, generation after generation, ‘You don't say you're Wamp.'"

The day before the Native women's brunch, which was held at the Four Seasons, Reis was at the Academy Museum for the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards...

When I started my side hustle, I didn't have a mentor, a big social media following, or any startup capital. I just had a drive to help people find great careers, and advice from some of my favorite books. 

In 2022, I quit my six-figure recruiting job at Amazon to grow my YouTube channel and launch my business, PayBump. I make videos about remote work and unique income streams, and create kits to help people make their resumes and cover letters shine.

Today, my business brings in $143,000 a mon...

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Black businesses are rich in history. From newspapers to banks to restaurants and more, Black-owned businesses are an integral part of American life.

Today, Black men and women own 2.6 million businesses across the United States, roughly 9.5 percent of businesses in the country.

But which ones have endured the longest? These are some of the oldest Black-owned businesses in America, with the very oldest listed last.

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Erick Sermon says he gets $240,000 every four months thanks to Metro Boomin’s “Creepin’” track featuring The Weeknd and 21 Savage.

In a recent interview with Bootleg Kev, the producer and EPMD member spoke about the importance of owning publishing, particularly in the current climate of streaming hits that are often short-lived.

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Radio host Charlamagne tha God pressed GOP presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley about systemic and structural racism in America on his radio show Wednesday.

“When you look at the inequalities in America, in education, you know, homeownership, employment and wealth, health care,” Charlamagne asked the former South Carolina governor during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club.” “Can you admit that Ameri...

Pharrell Williams is using Legos to tell his own story, with an eye toward inspiring others to their creative heights with animated biopic "Piece by Piece" via the Lego Group and Focus Features.

The "Happy" singer and producer has teamed with Oscar-winning "20 Feet From Stardom" documentarian Morgan Neville for the unconventional project due in theaters Oct. 11..

Williams, whose career spans hip-hop and R&B, films and fashion, was "uninterested in making a traditional film about his life," Focu...

‘The Underdoggs’ Director Is Extremely High on Snoop Dogg’s Performance: ‘He Did a Hell of a Job’ (Exclusive)

The new Prime Video sports comedy is inspired by the rapper's real-life role as a youth football coach and league founder

The Doggfather is now also The Underdoggs star.

Premiering Friday on Prime Video, the sports comedy takes inspiration from Snoop Dogg's admirable work as a coach and founder of the Snoop Youth Football League, which has served as the start for many future NF...

Sitting at the heart of Roc Nation’s music empire are two executives masterfully orchestrating a roster of distinct artists all united by one specific trait: authenticity. 

From Rihanna to J.Cole to Maeta, each individual artist signed under the Roc Nation label is strategically positioned to unleash the next major music sensation, guided by the expertise of co-presidents Shari Br...

If you or someone you know needs mental health resources and support, please call, text, or chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or visit 988lifeline.org for 24/7 access to free and confidential services.

A historically Black college and university is mourning the death of one of its former administrators, and some alumni say racism was at play and the institution’s president is to blame.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elmore Nickelberry, a civil rights icon who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight for higher pay and better working conditions for sanitation workers, has died at the age of 92, according to his family.

According to Nickelberry’s son, Terrence Nickleberry, his father’s cancer returned, and he went into the hospital around Thanksgiving with fluid on his lungs. Soon after, he was placed in hospice.

Nickelberry served the City of Memphis as a sanitation worker...

Outside her fictional kitchen garbs, the 28-year-old star has been pulling off look after look with zero hesitation. A Thom Browne muse...

Injuries can undoubtedly have a devastating impact on a player's career. With an already limited time to pursue their passion, being unable to compete due to injuries can go beyond physical pain; it sometimes also takes a toll on their mental well-being.

However, when you compare sports injuries to injuries other people struggle with, it may not seem as devastating. This change in perspective is something Julius Erving notably realized and expressed in the latter stages of his illustrious care...

When it comes to era-defining soirées, few rival Diddy's lavish White Parties. For more than a decade, from 1998 to 2009, the annual extravaganza over the Labor Day holiday was pop culture's hottest ticket, with an unmatched guest list delivering indelible fashion moments. 

"I remember the first party he threw in the Hamptons," Paris Hilton recalled to The Hollywood Reporter in 2008. "It was iconic and everyone was there."

In the early aughts, an invite to the exclusive bash solidified one's A...

•  Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, went through a name change and image transformation in 2001, accompanied by his personal assistant Fonzworth Bentley, who became a media sensation overnight.
•  Fonzworth Bentley worked for Diddy as a personal assistant and valet.
•  Bentley found success as an author, TV personality, and musician.

Irv Gotti appears to not be a believer in giving artists their masters recordings.

During an interview with “Drink Champs,” the Murder Inc. founder broke down his reasoning for why he is against it. 

“When people talk about the masters…and they’re like, ‘Oh you should give your artists their masters.’ No, because that’s how I make my money,” Gotti said. “Like Ja, Ashanti, millions of dollars they make every year [from their shows]. I don’t get a dime of that. I don’t get...

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Rapper Magoo, Timbaland's ex-rap partner, passes away aged 50

Arising rapper was among three people who died after their car crashed into a duplex in Miami early morning Wednesday, police say. 

The car was going westbound on 82nd Street when the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a residence in the area, the Miami Police Department told local outlet WSVN. 

The car then flipped over and burst into flames, according to Local10 and NBC Miami. 

House Intelligence subcommittee Tuesday is holding the first congressional hearing on UFOs in 50 years, as building evidence on the sightings raises more questions than answers. 

"There are a lot of unexplained aerial phenomena. We don't know what they are, and they can't be easily rationalized as weather phenomenon or balloons or anything else. So it's quite a mystery," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said of the hearing. 

"We're going to press them on some very se...

Celebrity chef Mario Batali’s pandemic-delayed trial on sexual misconduct allegations opens Monday in Boston.

Batali pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecent assault and battery in 2019, stemming from accusations that he forcibly kissed and groped a woman after taking a selfie with her at a Boston restaurant in 2017. The woman says Batali noticed her photographing him and invited her to take one together, then touched and kissed her repeatedly without her consent.

Elon Musk wants to hire thousands of new employees at Twitter while shedding some existing staffers, create a secretive new product known as "X," and more than quadruple the size of the social media platf...

Fred Savage has been removed as director and executive producer of "The Wonder Years" following an investigation into his alleged inappropriate conduct.

A spokesman for 20th Television confirmed the news in a statement provided to USA TODAY Friday. 

"Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched," reads the statement. "Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive p...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 25-year-old man reported missing last month was found dead in Grays Ferry this week. But his death may have come just after he won a million dollars on a lottery ticket.

Philadelphia police said a couple of kids found the body of 25-year-old Francis Decero in some bushes on Douglas Street on Wednesday. He had been missing since April 26, and authorities said his body bore signs of trauma.

Friends of Decero told our partners at NBC10 that he was a great, genuin...

 screams could be heard as loved ones learned that aspiring rapper Brandon Slater was shot and killed right outside his mother's home Saturday -- just one day ahead of Mother's Day. 

Family members say the 26-year-old had just picked up a cake for Mother's Day. His mother, Diane Archer, was at a Mother's Day brunch, where people were praying for her after losing her other son in December.

"I am so tired of this nonsense," she said. "Something has to be done." 

The shooting took place in the 1160...

OLSOM (CBS13) — California State Prison officials are investigating the death of inmate Camilo Banoslopez after he was killed by several other incarcerated persons, said the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Albert Calvillo, Irvin Rodriguez, Osbaldo Velasquez, and Jose Avila, all incarcerated, attacked Banoslopez in a recreation yard shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Friday, May 6.

Banoslopez was transferred to an on-site medical facility for treatment of his injuries from the attack, b...

An Alabama sheriff said Wednesday that a jail official visited a murder suspect in prison before helping him escape last week and that her actions suggest their plan had been in the works for some time.

“We have confirmed that there were visits and that there was communication between the two of them when he was in prison and she was still working here,” Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said.

He said the prison visits indicate the the two had some type of a relationship for possibly...

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Agile methodologies have become the default mode for innovation. But are they always the best choice for launching human-centered customer experiences?

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”

Somehow, somewhere, we fell too deeply in love with process instead of purpose. As innovators and visionaries, we forgot about our fundamental mission: to create new services, ...

Donny Davis' cause of death has been revealed.

The comedian and impersonator died of fentanyl and alcohol intoxication, the Clark County Coroner's office tells PEOPLE.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that the case is still open, and no arrests have been made, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Davis was found in a room at the Resorts World hotel and casino in February, Las Vegas' 
8 News Now reported. ...

A reputed federal informant and whistleblower who went missing after he was reported to have turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank was found dead at a Los Angeles school this week, a police official said Wednesday.

The body of Valentin Broeksmit, 46, was found Monday at Woodrow Wilson High School shortly before 7 a.m., Sgt. Rudy Perez of the Los Angeles School Police Department said in an email.

Records of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner do not list a cause of ...

China’s launch marks the first public demonstration of the “YJ-21” or “Eagle Strike 21” hypersonic anti-ship missile, said to be designed to target aircraft carriers, in what seems to be a show of china’s naval capabilities in warning to the US Navy.

The display of naval power came ahead of the Chinese navy’s 73rd anniversary, which was last weekend.

In a video clip of the apparent launch, the YJ-21 is launched from a Type 055 vessel, a guided-missile destroyer said to be the larg...

Kid Cudi announced on Twitter that a track on Pusha T’s upcoming album that features him and Ye will be their last song together.

“Hey! So I know some of you heard about the song I got [with] Pusha,” Cudi tweeted on Tuesday. “I did this song a year ago when I was still cool [with] Kanye. I am not cool [with] that man. He’s not my friend and I only cleared the song for Pusha [because] that’s my guy. This is the last song you will hear me on [with] Kanye.”

Cudi and Ye had a public f...

Vanessa Amos, also known as Ezra, was found dead on March 31 near Bathurst Street and Bloor Street West after a fall from the roof of a construction site.

Toronto Police say they are investigating after a young, Hamilton-based housing advocate was found dead near a Toronto construction site last week.

The mother of 22-year-old Vanessa Amos, who also goes by Ezra,...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called the South Korean defense minister a “scum-like guy” for talking about preemptive strikes on the North, warning Sunday that the South may face “a serious threat.”

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Virginian-Pilot newspaper reporter and former CNN news assistant Sierra Jenkins was among the individuals shot and killed in an early Saturday morning shooting that left one more person dead and three others injured, Norfolk, Virginia, police said.

She was 25.

Jenkins was leaving a downtown Norfolk restaurant, Chicho's Pizza Backstage, when an argument started outside the establishment, followed by gunfire.

Officers responded to the scene around 2 a.m. and found Jenkins and two men with life-thr...

St. Louis rapper Chingy found himself embroiled in the center of controversy with ousted Estée Lauder executive John Demsey who posted a racist meme on social media referencing the rapper.

The meme portrayed a fake book cover with Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus with a racial epithet in the title joking about the coronavirus pandemic, as Blavity previously reported.

Demsey issued an apology for sharing the meme, and Chingy decided to step into the fray and address the s...

© Jeff Kravitz - Getty ImagesPete Davidson has reportedly reached his limit with drama between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West—more details on how he feels about their messy split here.

Pete Davidson has apparently reached his breaking point when it comes to Kanye West's public comments—which you may have noticed when Davidson's friend recently published the SNL star's private texts to Kanye.

“Pete stepped in because he couldn’t take seeing Kanye continue to throw Kim under the bus anymo...

Aptos, a team helmed by former Facebook coders, announced a $200 million funding round Tuesday, confirming an earlier CoinDesk scoop.

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The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with Multicoin Capital, 3 Arrows Capital, Tiger Global, FTX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and more also signing checks.

Aptos is among a handful of teams looking to bring the Diem (formerly Libra) blockchain to life outside of the watchful eye of Meta (formerl...

Police are searching for a California man after the body of a child was found in his Central Valley home, authorities said Saturday.

The body was found Thursday in Dhante Jackson's residence in Merced, police from the cities of Merced and Hayward said in separate statements.

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Jackson is the boyfriend of a woman whose 8-year-old daughter, Sophia Mason, was reported missing Tuesday.

Two separate probes have been launched into Sop...

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has put a spotlight on alleged racism. The concern: immigrants from Africa and other people of color who call Ukraine home.

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As millions flee Ukraine, there are accusations of discrimination toward these refugees. 

In the United States, the issue has gotten the attention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League, which signed a letter t...

© Provided by Business InsiderWorkers load packages of Israeli humanitarian aid to assist people caught up in the fighting in Ukraine. Tsafrir Abayov/AP

At least 14 private jets from Russia have landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, per a rep...

ALas Vegas man faces murder charges in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was found in a freezer after his older sister gave her elementary school teacher an ominous note from their mom, officials said.

Brandon Toseland, 53, was arrested Tuesday after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department found the preschooler’s body in a freezer in his mother’s garage. He’s been charged with open murder and two counts of kidnapping.

Police say they obtained a search warrant for the Saddle Brook Par...

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.

But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her into mental health and addiction services. Instead, she was released over the pleas of loved ones and a tribal police c...

A man reported missing in Houston in 2021 has been found dead in a car trunk in Dallas.

The body of Taylour Young, 25, was discovered in the trunk of his vehicle in an impound lot on January 19.

Young's body was in a state of decomposition when it was found, according to the Houston Police Department.

In a tweet, they said an investigation was ongoing and the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause of death.

In the pre-pandemic days, the idea of the government — whether at the federal, state, or local level — offering someone a basic income guarantee, in the form of checks over an extended period of time, was not a mainstream sort of policy idea. Today, though, state and local governments around the US have undertaken a slew of these basic income experiments, offering what amounts to free money to broad swaths of their populations.

These payments are distinct from last year’s stimulus checks...

Guinea worm, formally called Dracunculus medinensis, is a type of nematode that’s long been a t...

The actress and director said her "family is devastated at the deepest level" in a statement to USA TODAY confirming her 26-year-old son's death. 

"He is such a bright light who cared so deeply about the happiness of others. Our family asks for respectful consideration during this private time. Thank you," King said. 

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Seems like the Kardashians aren’t the only ones unamused by Kanye West’s recent behavior, as Pete Davidson has now been forced to take extra measures to guarantee his safety following the release of Ye’s latest track. If you’ll recall, the 44-year-old rapper released his new single, “My Life Was Never Eazy” on Friday, January 14th, and in the song, he literally references the 28-year-old Saturday Night Live star by name and threatens to beat him. Ye raps:  “God saved me from tha...

hislaine Maxwell will no longer fight to keep the names of eight 'John Does' secret and will leave it to the court to decide whether the names should be unsealed, according to a January 12 letter to federal Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York.

The documents containing the names are connected to a 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and that Maxwell aided in the abuse. The case was settled ...

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olice say Georgia mom was killed and her three daughters were injured during a shooting at a Christmas Eve dinner, according to multiple reports.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, citing police, reports the shooting took place at about 4:30 p.m. Friday after Lashanda Allison, 41, and her partner, 51-year-old Stephanie Agee, got into an argument. Agee allegedly opened fire while Allison was cooking.

Responding Alpharetta Police Department arrived to find four people had been shot: Allison, her ...

Aprofessional boxer in Maryland was shot dead in front of his children on Friday in what police are investigating as a potential road rage incident.

Officers responded just before 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve and found the man, Danny Kelly Jr., of Clinton, Maryland, unresponsive in the driver's seat of an SUV. Kelly was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.

A preliminary investigation found that Kelly, 30, was driving with his girlfriend and three children at the time of the incident.

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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Police are looking for a group of thieves who they said chased down a man in the Bronx on Christmas Eve night before robbing him at gunpoint.

The incident began around 9:15 p.m. when one man approached the 27-year-old victim and asked him for $20 in front of a bodega on East 170th Street in the Claremont neighborhood.

The victim refused and fled the scene when he saw two other men approaching from behind, police said.

Three people were sentenced this week in connection to a 2017 attempted robbery that turned lethal and left Richard LaBar, a 58-year-old Domino's Pizza delivery driver, dead the day after the shooting.

On December 11, 2017, Israel Berrios, then 17, Carolina Carmona, his then girlfriend, and her brother Salvador Roberts Jr. ordered one pepperoni pizza and cinnamon sticks to an East Stroudsburg (Pennsylvania) University building, according to the Pocono Record.

Carmona admitted to placing the ord...

AChicago high school drug dealer was given just three years probation and 100 hours community service after pleading guilty to the 2020 murder of a 15-year-old boy during a drug sale gone wrong. 

Glenbrook South High School sophomore Elias Valdez was found dead on August 5, 2020, with multiple stab wounds to his chest after police said he took marijuana from a 17-year-old senior without paying. 

The drug dealer chased after the boy, and as they fought, he stabbed Valdez multiple times with a ut...

NEW JERSEY — Five more correctional officers, including the highest-ranking Department of Corrections official at New Jersey's Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, were charged for their roles where women inmates were severely beaten on Jan. 12, Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck announced Wednesday.

© Courtesy of Office of AttorneyPictured: DOC Associate Administrator Sean St. Paul (center); Ryan Valentin, 44, of Bloomfield (top left); Desiree Lewis, 33, of Elizabeth (top right); Bran...

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Kanye West has revealed why he expects to be “homeless in a year”.

In a new interview, the rapper, who recently changed his name to Ye, said that he believes society is being killed by “capitalist rule”, adding: “It’s time to change that.”

Inspired by this, he said he is “going to be homeless in a year” as he’s “going to turn all the homes I own into churches”.

“We’re making this orphanage, and it will be a place where anyone can go,” he...

Kim Kardashian officially filed for divorce from Kanye West back in February, and as of last week she has filed to become “legally single,” shutting down her ex-husband’s pleas for reunion. West has made it clear that he’s hoping to make things right with Kardashian after publicly declaring his lasting love for her over the past several months, but the 41-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star is evidently having none of it.

© Provided by SheFindsKim Kardashian officially filed...

The police in Edwardsville, Ill., said there were at least two “confirmed fatalities” at an Amazon warehouse after a direct hit from a tornado caused a major portion of the building to collapse on Friday night, leaving “catastrophic damage to a significant portion” of the building.

Three people were rescued from the building, and one of them was taken to a hospital, said Mark Mayfield, a captain with the Edwardsville Fire Department. He did not know the person’s status on Saturday mo...

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The former guard said that Atallah used to touch her while she worked in the security prisoner’s ward. The woman added that not only did her commanders know about the harassment a...

Public health officials are investigating an influenza outbreak at a Michigan university that has resulted in more than 500 cases, as several schools have also seen surges in flu activity.

The University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus in Washtenaw County has reported over 525 cases among students since Oct. 6 -- about three-quarters of them among people unvaccinated against the flu, school offici...

Actor Terrence Jenkins was allegedly the victim of an attempted follow-home robbery where his car was shot at as he escaped from perpetrators.  

Fox LA reports Terrence, aka Terrence J, was returning to his Sherman Oaks at 3am on Wednesday when an SUV with masked men blocked him in, according to FOX LA, citing the police.

Police say one of the alleged perpetrators ordered Jenkins, 39, out of the vehicle at gunpoint, however he ended up being able to flee in his car.

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More than 70 people killed in spiralling unrest triggered by the jailing of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma.

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Protesters clashed with security forces in several areas of South Africa and looters ransacked shopping malls on Tuesday as frustrations over poverty and inequality boiled over in to the c...

© Provided by Essence RHOA’s Falynn Guobadia Issues Statement On Ex-Husband’s Engagement To Porsha Williams, Says She’s ‘Healing’@falynnguobadia/Instagram

It’s been a whirlwind 24 hours to 48 hours for Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams. Since sharing images of herself with an engagement ring on while cozied up to Simon Guobadia, she has confirmed that they’re in love and engaged, and so has he, after a whirlwind mon...

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Han Solo didn't dominate.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second spin-off based in the Star Wars universe. Unlike the first film, Rogue One, that was mainly based on characters most people never heard of, Solo had the enormous task presenting a younger version of Han Solo. Han is one of the most beloved characters in the Star Wars universe, and Alden Ehrenreich does a good job of channeling his inner Harrison Ford in the film. Donald Glover also shines as Lando, but if you want to check out our...

Mr. Saipov drove a semi-truck for a living, logging tens of th...

The Love and Hip Hop Atlanta cast has more juicy rumors that may keep the audiences interested in the upcoming episodes.

Since the show’s inception, the artists on the show have provided a lot of drama for its audiences to enjoy. From baby daddies to music albums, the hip hop reality show provided a full spectrum of life that people would be interested in.

One of the biggest dramas to hit the show was the identity of Joselin...

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Somewhere in America, there is hope because of brilliant, fearless girls like this.

In an amazing, seriously, AMAZING performance on The Queen Latifah Show that is called “Somewhere in America”. These fearless girls; Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin, and Zariya Allen get real about the issues America has their generations facing. 

They are part of the non-profit organization Get Lit. The organization is the leading  non-profit...

A day after an improvised explosive was detonated outside the Colorado Springs, Colo., NAACP office, local leaders condemned what some believe is a possible hate crime.

“This certainly raises questions of a potential hate crime,” said Sondra Young, president of the Denver chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. “But at this point we’re still gathering information. It’s a very sad situation, but we’re happy our people in Colorado Springs are safe...

After Lil Wayne went honey baked ham on his longtime mentor Birdman yesterday, calling out the Cash Money CEO for delaying the release of his upcoming project, Tha Carter 5, many have been anticipating what Baby's response to being blasted by his most successful artist would be. While Pusha T, Trinidad James, Tyga and several fans were quick to share their opinions, the man in question remained silent. Well, he hasn't officially addressed the situation or made any kind of public state...

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•originally published 10/02/2014 AT 01:25 PM EDT

A third American hostage held by ISIS has been identified as a 26-year-old American woman who was kidnapped a year ago while doing humanitarian relief work in Syria. The terror group is demanding $6.6 million and the release of U.S. prisoners for the life of the young woman, whom a representative for the family requested not be identified.

She is the third of at least four Americans who were known to be held by ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. American journalist James Foley...

The rap mogul is now recovering. Two other people were also wounded.

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Death Row co-founder Suge Knight has undergone surgery and is recovering in an I.C.U. after being shot at Chris Brown’s pre-party for the MTV Video Music Awards. TMZ first reported that Knight was shot at between two to six times outside the 1OAK club on LA’s Sunset Boulevard, but the details on the shooting are still murky. His ...

Arianna Huffington

Human beings sometimes have a troubling inability to hold two thoughts in mind at the same time. This is true not only when the two thoughts contradict each other but even when they simply appear to be in conflict with each other but actually aren't. And nowhere is there a greater need for us to get past this tendency than when discussing the ongoing war on drugs and the growing movement for the decriminalization of marijuana. It should be po...

DAKAR- Amadou Ali and family came under fire in town of Kolofata, with militants taking his wife, in group's third attack this week

Common responds to Lord Jamar's comments that white rappers are "guests" in hip-hop.

While speaking with Vlad TV about the upcoming season of AMC's "Hell On Wheels," Common took a moment to address issues of race in hip-hop culture, going as far to directly address Jamar's comments that white rappers are "guests" in the genre.

“I don’t agree with that…Obviously it’s a culture that started with black...

The Five Percent Nation medallion worn by hip hop moguls such as Jay Z and Jay Electronica tends to raise a bit of controversy. We unravel the history behind this piece and what it exactly means to be a part of this Five Percent Nation.

Last week, at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, Jay Electronica gave fans a set to remember as he brought out labelmate Jay Z, ...

Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. It often takes the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently.^[1][2][3]

Some consider any assumption ...

Chicago rap veteran Rhymefest recently talked about his close-knit relationship with longtime pal Kanye West and killed the notion he should make endless contributions to what goes down in their hometown. #GetItRight

In Fest's perspective, too much emphasis on what celebrities like Yeezy have done for their former neighborhoods has sparked misconceptions.

"Let's get it right, Kanye didn't becom...

The number of deaths attributed to an epidemic of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stood at 467 by Monday, out of 759 known cases in total, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

The outbreak of the deadly disease is already the largest and deadliest ever, according to the WHO, which previously put the death toll at 399 as of June 23, out of 635 cases.

The 17 percent rise in deaths and 20 percent...