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Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas was on the verge of losing her family home until her mother was able to drop thousands of dollars in back mortgage payments, saving the home from being sold in a foreclosure auction. Natalie Hawkins, Gabby’s mom, filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy back in 2012. According to the bankruptcy petition, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — “Too proper for the black kids, too black for the Mexicans,” Miguel sings on the song, “what’s normal anyway.” The R&B star, who is black and Mexican, explores his racial identity and more on the track, which he calls “the spine” of his new album, “Wildheart.” “It was a challenge for […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The rapper and actor known as 50 Cent has filed for federal bankruptcy protection, days after a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. Curtis Jackson III, who owns a home in Farmington, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Monday. […]
LONDON (AP) — After winning titles again on Wimbledon’s grass, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams showed they can cut a rug, too. Reviving a bygone tradition, Djokovic and Williams busted a move at the Grand Slam tournament’s annual champions’ dinner, dancing together to “Night Fever,” the Bee Gees’ disco hit from the 1977 movie “Saturday […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Like her classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee novel coming out Tuesday is a coming of age story. And not just for Scout Finch. “Go Set a Watchman” is set in the famous fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s, 20 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird” takes […]
Reports of Jay Z and Beyoncé buying the rights to the Confederate flag were greatly exaggerated. So much so that all the talk turned out be false, according to The Washington Post, which cited NewsWatch33, a bogus website, as the source of the fake report. According to the report, a lawyer for Jay Z and Beyoncé […]
Tom Joyner may be the hardest working man in show business but he’d concede the crown to Frankie Beverly as the hardest working man in the music business. Bolstered by their showmanship and the classic Black party song “Before I Let Go,” Frankie Beverly and Maze have been working, touring and making music for four […]
50 Cent has had more than his fair share of self-imposed drama throughout the course of his career and now one of his most infamous…
Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg proved a while ago that she was an expert on cultural appropriation. So it made sense that she had the right put down for Kylie…
After years of being marginalized by the professional makeup artists–and the fashion industry at large–Sudanese model Nykhor Paul let the Internet know how she really feels. When it’s your job to have a fully stocked makeup kit, there is no excuse for any makeup artist to ask their darker customers to bring in their own […]
Sean Kingston is doing damage control after a post on his Facebook page appeared to have him making fun of a teen with Asperger’s Syndrome. The post contained a link to an article about the bullied teen along with the caption: Tip of the day: If you start a fight, You better know how to […]
