Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO: Oprah Winfrey (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) By Taryn Finley Oprah Winfrey is selling a majority interest in her network OWN to Discovery Communications for $70 million, the Los Angeles Times reports. OWN had been a 50-50 joint venture between Winfrey and Discovery until the deal, which was announced Monday. The cable giant is acquiring an…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Malia Obama  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) By Zeke Miller associated press NEW YORK — Present and former First daughters Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton have condemned recent tabloid coverage of President Barack Obama’s eldest daughter Malia, saying the college student deserves privacy and ought to be “OFF limits.” The president’s daughter tweeted: “Malia…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Matt Lauer  (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)   By David Bauder associated press NEW YORK — NBC News fired “Today” show host Matt Lauer for what it said Wednesday was “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a colleague, making him perhaps the most familiar figure in America brought down so far by the misconduct allegations that have…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Russell Simmons  (Photo: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com)   By Lindsey Bahr ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES— Model Keri Claussen Khalighi came forward to accuse Def Jam Records mogul Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct in 1991 when she was 17 years old. In a report last Sunday in the Los Angeles Times, Khalighi says that…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Prince Harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle attend a wheelchair tennis event at the Invictus Games in Toronto, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)   By Gregory Katz associated press LONDON — Prince Harry, fifth in line to the British throne, will marry American actress Meghan Markle in the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Dante James   Dayton, OHIO — Emmy award-winning independent filmmaker, Dante James is pleased to announce that his company Black Pearl Media Works, LLC (BPMW) is moving forward with the production of “God of the Oppressed,” an independent feature documentary.  “It has taken six months and incredible support from Union Theological Seminary and…

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Review by Kam Williams Sheed Smith (Cory Hardrict) is a drug dealer roaming Detroit’s mean streets in a bloody turf war being waged in the “hood” where he was raised. Meanwhile, his doppelganger, Rasheed Smith (also Cory Hardrict), is an idealistic architect overseeing an urban renewal project designed to revitalize the same ghetto. However, the…

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By Kharisma McIlwaine ‘Neverland’ as a concept has been woven into the fabric of our culture. Neverland… a place where time is frozen, where children remain children forever, where fairies, pirates, mermaids, and crocodiles announced by ticking clocks are a reality. The concept of Neverland and Peter Pan —the boy who never wanted to grow…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Russell Simmons  (Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com)   By Lindsey Bahr ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES— Model Keri Claussen Khalighi has come forward to accuse Def Jam Records mogul Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct in 1991 when she was 17 years old. In a report Sunday in the Los Angeles Times, Khalighi says…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Della Reese  (Editorial credit:  / Shutterstock.com)   associated press LOS ANGELES — Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama “Touched by an Angel,” has died at age 86. Reese’s co-star on the series, Roma Downey,…

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