‘I’m Always Thinking About How Can I Use My Platform to Further Racial Equity’: Alicia Keys Announces She’s Starting $1 Billion Fund for Black Businesses - The New York Beacon
TheNFLkicked off their 2020 football season with social distancing protocols set in place due to continued risk caused by the coronavirus pandemic. As the league opened the season on Thursday, Sept. 10 with the Chiefs-Texans game, it partnered up with Grammy-winning artistAlicia Keysto sing
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Fans Say They Are Ready for a New Single After Toni Braxton Encourages Fans to Send Her a List of Their Favorite Artists
Toni Braxton is updating her playlist. The RB singer recently encouraged fans to give her a list of their favorite musical artists, but most people []
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Trinidad: Cops use taser on woman who bit off lip of 14-year-old boy - Stabroek News

(Trinidad Express) A 14-year-old boy is in serious

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Fibroids: When Your Pudge Just Won’t Budge! | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

You’re eating all the right things and you’ve even joined that new Zoom fitness class.  You’re giving

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Witnesses to Rayshard Brooks Shooting Called What They Saw Awful
They say they never expected to see a police killing.
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Megan Thee Stallion And Cardi B Release Tantalizing ‘WAP’ Video With Kylie Jenner
Special cameo appearances include Normani, Mulatto, Rubi Rose and more.
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Pregnant woman gunned down in drive-by shooting in King William’s Town | News24
A 35-year-old pregnant King William’s Town woman was shot and killed in her driveway by unknown gunmen.
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See Beyoncé Reimagined by One of the World’s Top Artists
She covers the new issue of Garage magazine.
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Jay-Z Launching School With Brooklyn's Long Island University - The New York Beacon

NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the incoming freshmen

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Toni Braxton Reveals A Vibrator Is A Major Part Of Her Skin Care Routine
The R&B vet reveals her interesting skin care hack.
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Rick Ross Featuring Finn Matthews - "Pinned to the Cross"
Hip-hop legend Rick Ross teams up with rising singer-songwriter Finn Matthews and takes aim at America's state of racial injustice in the music video for "Pinned to the Cross."
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DIVA DISH! ALICIA KEYS BEAUTY MOGUL? TITUS BURGESS' HOT NEW BOD! - DivaGalsDaily
Alicia Keys is entering the beauty business in 2021 through a partnership with E.L.F beauty. This makes us sad. Vanessa Bryant is having a very public fight with her mom. Titus Burgess reveals his tight and trimmed down Corona
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Kanye West Previews New Song About Mother ‘Donda’
"In loving memory of my incredible mother on her birthday."
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Spotlight on: Nomzamo Mbatha to host BET Awards International pre-show
South Africa's IT girl Nomzamo Mbatha will host this year's BET Awards International ‘Locked Lit’ pre-show on 29 June.
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Blueface Taps His California OG Snoop Dogg For ‘Respect My Cryppin’
The track is on Blueface’s ‘Famous Cryp Reloaded.’
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Trailer: Jennifer Hudson Stars As Aretha Franklin In ‘Respect’ Biopic [VIDEO]
The star-studded Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect, is set for a December release date. It’s slated to follow the story of the legendary singer’s rise to stardom from singing in her father’s church to becoming a global icon.
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Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first licensed woman
Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first licensed woman architect in the U.S. and the first African American woman to become a fellow in the American Institute of Architects, born.
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Apr
15
1928
Juelz Santana Reunites With Wife After Prison Release
Juelz Santana has been released from prison early, after serving 18 months behind bars. The rapper and "Love & Hip Hop" star was reunited with his wife Kimbella on August 4.
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Jamie Foxx: Says His Sister With Down's Syndrome Is The Real Star! | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect
Actor, musician, funnyman…there are only a few things that superstar Jamie Foxx can't do.  But if you ask him who's the real star of the family, he'll quickly point to his younger sister, DeOndra Dixon. DeOndra was born with Down's Syndrome, the genetic disorder typically associated with physical
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Whitney Houston Biopic Scores Black Director
The film is slated for a Thanksgiving 2022 release.
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Mary Frances Berry born
On this day Mary Frances Berry, who will become the first woman to serve as a chancellor of a major research university, is born in Nashville, Tenn.
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Feb
17
1938
Mario - "Mars"
Singer-songwriter Mario doesn't need a rocket or gravity to take his lover to "Mars" in the music video for his track directed by the artist and Sterling Hampton.
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BET Awards Performance: Alicia Keys - Perfect Way to Die
The artist performs her song about systemic racism.
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Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985).
Patricia Roberts Harris, lawyer and diplomat, was the first black woman ambassador appointed to an overseas post under President Lydon B. Johnson administration.
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Jan
0
1924
Debbie Allen Catered Raven-Symoné’s At Home Intimate Wedding
Raven-Symoné tied the knot to Miranda Pearman-Maday.
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Our Nig by Harriet Wilson, the first novel published in the U.S. by an African A
Our Nig by Harriet Wilson, the first novel published in the U.S. by an African American woman, is published. It was lost for years until reprinted with a critical essay by African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983.
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Sep
5
1859
Notorious B.I.G.’s Plastic Crown Sells For Almost $600K
The rapper was famously known as the "King of New York."
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Alicia Keys Says ‘If I Ain’t Got You’ Almost Went To Christina Aguilera
Keys wanted to give the Grammy-winning track to Aguilera initially.
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106&Park: Ceraadi Takes Fan Questions
The "twintuition" is real.
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Dr. Alexa Canady
Dr. Alexa Canady was the first black woman neurosurgeon in the United States.She was born Nov. 7 1950 in Lansing Michigan.
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0
1999

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