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BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Kevin Gates has been sentenced to 180 days in jail after being convicted of kicking a female fan at a Florida concert last year. News outlets report a Polk County jury found Gates, who was sentenced Wednesday, guilty of battery after he was captured on cellphone video kicking 19-year-old Miranda […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers national anthem singer Sevyn Streeter said she was told by the team she could not perform because of her “We Matter” jersey. She was scheduled to sing before the Sixers’ season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder, but said in an interview with The Associated Press late Wednesday she was […]

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Bryson Tiller changed the game with the release of his 2015 album T R A P S O U L, and fans have been yearning for more ever since.

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Reports that Adrienne Bailon’s fiancé Israel Houghton was being sued by the Texas State Attorney General for back and current child support for his two love children are not true, says his rep. Sources close to the situation say that he always goes “above and beyond” to take care of his children, and that the lawsuit […]

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On Wednesday, October 26, The Real debates if “imitation is the highest form of flattery” when discussing the backlash comedian Amy Schumer has received from her “Formation” parody. Co-host Loni Love emotionally explains how the tribute to Beyoncé celebrates women, but on the other hand, is still inappropriate.   Plus, The Real continues The Real […]

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Disney Studios is teaming up with Ice Cube and Tommy Kail, the Tony-winning director of Hamilton, for a modern, musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Twist tells the story of an orphan boy who moves from a life as an exploited child laborer to being under the wings of Fagin, a leader of a […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A one-night-only benefit performance of the play “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” seems to really suit Rosie O’Donnell, Carol Kane, Tracee Ellis Ross, Lucy DeVito and Natasha Lyonne. The five actresses have signed up to help the 92nd Street Y on Feb. 5 by performing the play by Nora Ephron […]

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The Lifetime movie, “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge, and Michel’le” is still all the rage. And in an interview last week with BlogTalkRadio host Paul Gant from the “Go For It” sports talk show, ex-athlete and now actor Curtis Hamilton, who played Dr. Dre in the movie, had some interesting things to say about the flick […]

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NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (AP) — A backup dancer from New Jersey who has performed with Beyonce, Rihanna and Missy Elliott was found Tuesday after she went missing on Saturday, police said. North Bergen police Officer Alex Vazquez said Tuesday that Shirlene Quigley had been found and her family was en route to see her at […]

  10-time Grammy award winner Cece Winans is releasing her first album in almost ten years! The long awaited album, Let Them Fall In Love won’t hit the shelves until 2017, but her new single Never Have To Be Alone, definitely comes at the right time! Check out a clip below. She talks to the Tom Joyner […]

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Now even Justin Timberlake has been forced to deal with the question of whether a ballot selfie is legal. Timberlake flew from California to Tennessee to vote early this week, but his posting of an image of himself at the voting booth on Instagram on Monday drew questions about whether he was breaking the law. […]

  Dr. Spinks-Franklin is a developmental behavioral pediatrician in the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics for Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Spinks-Franklin is associate fellowship director for the developmental-behavioral pediatric fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. In addition to evaluating children with developmental and behavioral […]