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Don Cornelius

Soul Train is sometimes compared to American Bandstand, a similar long-running show hosted by Dick Clark… Don Cornelius was married twice: to a childhood sweetheart, Delores Harrison, and later to Russian model Viktoria Chapman (from 2001 until their divorce in 2009). With Delores Harrison he had two sons, Anthony and Raymond.

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Shaw, Anna Howard

Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847–1919, American woman-suffrage leader, b. England. She emigrated (1851) to the United States in early childhood and grew up on a farm in Michigan. She received a degree in theology (1878) and one in medicine (1885) from Boston Univ. Although the Methodist Episcopal Church

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China ready to pounce as Tullow Oil bows out

The Covid-19 pandemic has come as the last nail on the coffin of Kenya’s oil export dream as currently structured after British oil major Tullow Oil served the government with a force majeure notice, which means that it can no longer deliver its part of the

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'Ugh Nope': Fans Are Not Here for Lyrica Anderson and A1 Bentley Discussing Marital Woes on Reality TV

Lyrica Anderson and her estranged husband A1 Bentley are attempting to salvage their marriage one last

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PBS Celebrates Pride Month with PRIDELAND, a Short-Form Digital Series and New One-Hour Special with Host and Actor Dyllón Burnside, Exploring LGBTQ+ Identity in the U.S. South

Digital episodes premiered May 26 on PBS Voices, a new documentary-focused YouTube channel from PBS Digital Studios; one-hour broadcast special premieres Friday, June 12 at 9:00 pm ET on PBS

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Audit pokes hole in Tullow's Sh15bn pay out claim

"This represents less than eight per cent of the gross expenditure – reasonable by industry standards," Tullow Oil Kenya Managing Director Martin Mbogo said in

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Black Fact of the Day: June 18, 2020- Brought to you by Black365

Black Fact of the Day: June 18, 2020- Brought to you by Black365 T.V. host, actor, former defensive tackle, Anthony “Spice” Adams was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 18, 1980. Brought to you by the Black365 Calendar.

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Chiwenga wins children’s custody

THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, Mary

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'Not Feeling the Hair': Fans Spill Mixed Opinions About Tamar Braxton's New Style

Tamar, the host of the VH1 reality show “To Catch a Beautician,” sat down with her co-host celebrity hairstylist Johnny White and retired hairstylist Mecca to discuss ways beauticians can help their clients’ hair

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'People Don't Have Manners': Quad Webb Seemingly Claps Back at Pregnancy Rumors

Quad Webb recently took a moment to seemingly address some idle speculation that she is

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'When Ray J Come Home?': Princess Love's Fruit Snack Challenge with Melody Derails When Ray J Pops Up

Celebrity parents, including actress Gabrielle Union, reality star and entrepreneur Kylie Jenner, and now “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” reality stars Princess Love and Ray J Norwood, are among the many participating in the Fruit Snack

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Will Smith Opens Up About Divorce From First Wife, Sheree Fletcher

In the Father’s Day episode of Red Table Talk, Will Smith is getting up close and personal about his divorce from his first wife, Sheree

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The Carr Report: Avoid shackles if you’re shacking up

Common reasons our younger generation is opting for cohabitation in lieu of

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PROTEST VIDEO: Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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Paige, Roderick Raynor (1933- )

Roderick Raynor Paige, the first African American and the first school superintendent to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Education, was born on June 17, 1933 in Monticello, Mississippi. The eldest of five children, Paige was born to his mother Sophie, a librarian, and father, Raynor

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What I Just Learned About Black People In Early American History Blew My Mind

A friend just sent me a video that changed my view on American

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Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Remove Rebel Emblem from Flag

By Emily Wagster Pettus

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'RJ Junior!': Princess Love's Darling Photo of Her 5-Month-Old Son Has Fans Calling Him Ray J's Twin

Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new

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More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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Kenya Barris Calls Off His Divorce To Dr. Raina Edwards-Barris

Baby, Kenya Barris and his wife Dr. Raina “Rainbow” Barris are on a love

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DR NJENGA: Why do people stay in abusive unions?

Yours is a rather heavy question full of emotion and it is possible that you ask the question because you have lived in one such “cruel and hopeless

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'Beans Is Literally You': Tamar Braxton Reveals Her Son's Birthday Demands, Laughing Fans Say He Acts Like the Singer

Tamar Braxton had to be breaking out in a sweat on Thursday, May 14, because she recently admitted that her 6-year-old son, Logan Vincent Herbert, was putting her to

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See Inside Deelishis and Raymond Santana Jr.'s Glamorous Quarantine Wedding

On Saturday, June 6th, Raymond Santana Jr., famously known as one of the exonerated “Central Park Five” men and Flavor of Love star Deelishis said “I Do” at their gorgeous outdoor wedding in Duluth, Georgia, just six months after getting

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Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19 | Afro

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean

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Legendary Soul Train Dancer Tyrone “The Bone” Proctor Passes Away

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Tiffany Haddish reveals she was raped by a police cadet when she was 17

Tiffany Haddish at the Comic and Hollywood Communities Coming Together to Mark Juneteenth Anniversary of Freedom celebration in Los

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Mississippi Surrenders Confederate Symbol From State Flag

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil

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Exclusive: MAFS’ Shawniece And Jephte On Their Critics, Not Wearing Wedding Rings, And How Having A Baby Changed Their Marriage

Of all the couples who have been featured on Married at First Sight, there haven’t been many who have been more intriguing to follow than Shawniece Jackson and Jephte

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Breaking myths about black fatherhood this Father’s Day

Too many sermons on Father’s Day seem to focus on the black father’s need to engage his children because he’s shirked

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