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ABOVE PHOTO: (Steve Sanchez Photos / shutterstock) “And this is How Social Media Kills Black Folks…”  By Kayla Taylor When you’re a Black kid from the hood, you’ll see beer stores on almost every corner, maybe a crackhead or two, sometimes even a tree branch with some teddy bears and balloons. Sometimes police sirens wake…

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By Andrew Dalton LOS ANGELES — Gabrielle Union and NBC said Tuesday that they have settled their differences in their dispute over her firing as a judge on “America’s Got Talent,” which she said was retaliation for her complaints that the show tolerated racism on the set. “We’ve reached an amicable resolution,” Union and the…

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By Jonathan Landrum Jr. ASSOCIATED PRESS  LOS ANGELES — Having his daytime talk show canceled by NBC last year hasn’t stopped Steve Harvey. While he waited for a new opportunity, the comedian continued to make his presence regularly felt on TV as the host of “Family Feud” and as an emcee for multiple recurring jobs,…

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NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to her media company and arts collective ARRAY. The award is named for the co-founder of MacDowell, the century-old artist residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and…

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By Jake Coyle ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — The Walt Disney Co. will make a follow-up to the 2019 live-action “The Lion King,” with Barry Jenkins, the director of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and the James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk,” set to direct. Disney announced plans Tuesday for a kind of prequel to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Vivica A. Fox (Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock) By Florence Anthony Exclusive! After being forced to sit out her hosting gig of the E! News virtual Emmys pre-show on September 20, because she tested positive for coronavirus, Vivica A. Fox decided to get a second opinion and take another test. The results of that…

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By Barry J. Jacobs Fred’s argument with his 85-year-old mother, Sarah, about her safety and security was always the same — and he always lost. He lived two states away and wanted her to move from her three-story home of 50 years to a one-floor senior apartment near him where she’d be less likely to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Carson Wentz (Photo: Webster Riddick) The tie between the Philadelphia Eagles and Cincinnati Bengals portends a long season for Philadelphia sports fans. By Chris Murray  For the Philadelphia Sunday SUN On one level, Philadelphia Eagles fans can take some solace in the fact the Birds 23-23 overtime tie with the Cincinnati Bengals last…

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All Signs: This is not an ordinary year. The last time Saturn and Pluto lined up in Capricorn was 500 years ago in 1518. The last time Pluto was in Capricorn was during the American Revolution. The last time Mars was retrograde in Aries was 32 years ago in 1988. Currently, retrograde Mars is sowing…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this September 2, 2020 file photo, preschool teacher Mikki Laugier wears a protective mask as she guides students in a lesson at P.S.15 in the Red Hook neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) By Shawn Marsh ASSOCIATED PRESS  Placing an order at a deli counter while…

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