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Singer Ashlee Simpson and actor Evan Ross are gonna get hitched. Jessica Simpson’s younger sister and Diana Ross’ son made the announcement via Twitter on Monday “The love of my life said YES!!!!!!” Ross, 25, wrote, sharing a photo of the couple. Adds Simpson, 29, “My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!! Hallelujah Hawaii!!!” The…

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Going into the event, Hustle and 12 Years a Slave shared all the Oscar buzz by virtue of their having landed the most Golden Globe nominations (seven each). But 12 Years has definitely now lost momentum, despite prevailing in the coveted Best Picture (Drama) category only.

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Film critic Armond White has been expelled from the New York Film Critics Circle after allegedly heckling “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen at the group’s annual awards banquet. The critics convened Monday and voted the CityArts critic out of the group.

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On June 28, 2005, a team of Navy SEALs based in Afghanistan were issued orders in accordance with Operation Red Wings to locate and terminate a Taliban leader whose militia had been targeting coalition troops in the Kush Mountains of Kunar Province. The four were then dropped by helicopter line into rugged terrain outside the…

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NEW YORK — NBC’s comic institution “Saturday Night Live,” criticized recently for a lack of diversity, said on Monday that it was adding a black woman to its repertory cast when new episodes start again later this month. Sasheer Zamata, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 2008 and has worked with the New…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Best Director winner Steve McQueen attends the 79th Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards at the Edison Ballroom on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)   Eurweb.com   New York Film Critic Armand White is denying the allegations that he heckled Steve McQuee,n, director of the film…

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Gabrielle Union may have lost out to Kerry Washington for the chance to play “Scandal’s” Olivia Pope, but the recently engaged actress has found a character just as engaging via her new show “Being Mary Jane.” The hour-long series, BET’s first drama, centers on Mary Jane Paul (Union), a CNN-type anchor who juggles professional and…

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Flo Anthony is a syndicated celebrity radio host and columnist. The first African American woman to work in the sports, entertainment and the renowned Page Six departments of the New York Post, as well as the first African American to pen a column in the National Examiner, her work currently appears in the New York…

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MONTGOMERY, AL — Police in Alabama are investigating the killings of rapper Doe B. and another person in a shooting Saturday that also wounded six others inside a bar and grill. Police say the gunfire happened around 1 a.m. about a half-mile north of Alabama State University. Police identified those killed as 21-year-old Kimberle Johnson…

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Woefully underreported by major news outlets to date is the fact that this year, there are at least five feature documentaries directed by black women qualifying for Academy Award consideration, including Gideon’s Army by Dawn Porter; Free Angela and All Political Prisoners by Shola Lynch; Valentine Road by Marta Cunningham; The New Black by Yoruba…

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