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NEW YORK (AP) — Three Black writers, including novelist Colson Whitehead for “The Underground Railroad,” have taken home Pulitzer Prizes this year. Whitehead’s celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah Winfrey […]
According to ABC News, Janet Jackson’s rep has confirmed that she and her billionaire husband Wissam Al Mana are separating three months after having their son early this year. According to Page Six, one source said the split is amicable and the couple will co-parent their son, but others said trouble “had been brewing” for awhile. A […]
On Saturday, former Apprentice contestant and avid Trump supporter Omarosa Manigault married her pastor fiancé Dr. John Allen Newman. Not surprisingly, #45 did not attend the nuptials because he was at hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. However, Manigault’s wedding was hosted at the Trump Tower in Washington D.C. According to USA TODAY, Manigault tweeted […]
A set of quadruplet brothers, who go to high school outside Cincinnati, have been accepted by Harvard and Yale, among other top schools. And because the Wade quads, from Lakota East High School, all wrote about being part of a multiple birth, they may have helped themselves get into the Ivies. https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/849592329728131072 According to the New York […]
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Sadly, this week another sibling member of a well-known group has died. Brenda Jones, 62, of the Jones Girls was killed when she was struck by several cars while on the way to visit her daughter in Wilmington, Delaware. Ebony.com reports: According to her sister, Shirley Jones, the singer was struck on Monday, April 3, […]
R&B vocalist and reality TV star Keke Wyatt has a big family already. But she’s just announced that she and her husband, Michael Ford, are expecting a child, which will be Keke’s ninth. The couple have five children together and Keke has three from a previous relationship. Willie Moore, Jr. talked to Wyatt about her […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Model and Kardashian clan member Kendall Jenner’s turn as a Pepsi-wielding protester has some on social media decrying the imagery as appropriation of the Black Lives Matter movement. The “Live for Now Moments” video released Tuesday has Jenner in a platinum wig on a photo shoot when protesters amble by. She […]
Contrary to what the Huffington Post says, Bishop T.D. Jakes is not a supporter of same-sex marriage. BET.com reports the religious leader took to social media to set the record straight on comments he made to the publication last week that seemed to indicate his support of same-sex marriage. According to Jakes, his remarks were […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department late Monday asked a federal judge for more time to “review and assess” a proposed agreement to overhaul the Baltimore Police Department, saying it needed to determine how it might interfere with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new focus on fighting violent crime. The request for a 90-day continuance came […]