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Study Finds Food Delivery Drivers Admit To Eating Food Meant For Customers

The study found that a whopping 28% of food delivery drivers admitted to stealing food. 497 Americans who have worked for delivery apps including UberEats, Grubhub, DoorDash and Postmates were surveyed.

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Kenya Moore’s Ex Matt Jordan Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting His Girlfriend

According to the document, the woman, Valerie Bell, claims Matt punched her in the face at a Denny’s parking lot in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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R. Kelly’s Girlfriends Looking To Break Into Hollywood

Clary and Savage reportedly plan to continue to support their man and build an empire in the meantime.

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TV Ancestry Series Is A Salve For Divided America, Host Says

The PBS series demonstrates that “we’re all descended from immigrants,” whether they came to America willingly or as slaves, and all share a common origin, Gates told a TV critics meeting Monday.

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Millennial Money: Why You Need A Midyear Budget Check-In

“You can kind of see where your money went, and that will start to give you a better idea of problem areas or focus areas,” says Renfro, who is also a financial planner.

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Civil Rights Panel: Disabled Students Of Color Punished More

“Discrimination based on race and disability in school discipline practices has plagued education across the United States for decades and can wreak significant harm on students and school communities,” said Catherine Lhamon, chairwoman of the commission, which also recommended more government funding for training and the hiring of school counselors.

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MTV Could Remove Michael Jackson’s Name From The Vanguard Award

A source tells Page Six, “There’s a lot of heated discussion at the network about how to handle the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award this year, and it’s getting ugly. There’s talk about if they should change the name, or get rid of it altogether. [There’s also talk] about who would present it and who would accept it. It’s a mess.”

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RHOA’s Cynthia Bailey Engaged To Fox Sportscaster Mike Hill

Bailey says, “Love can show up when you least expect it and in the unlikeliest of places.” She also says that when it happens, “run toward it.”

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Meghan Guest Edits UK Vogue, Focusing On Trailblazing Women

“She wanted, instead, to focus on the women she admires,” he said.

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Mary J. Blige To Star In First Of Several ‘Power’ Spinoffs

“I have been a fan of ‘Power’ forever,” said the singer, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress and original song for her work on the Netflix film “Mudbound.”

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Actresses Of Color Make Equal-Pay Quest A Group Effort

″‘Equal pay, that’s what we say!’” she exclaimed in one take, as recounted by Lennox at a gathering of female filmmakers last fall. “And I said, ‘She gets the message. She knows what this is about.’”

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‘Lion King’ Reigns Above Box Office For Second Week

Disney’s photorealistic remake of the Hamlet-themed tale of Mufasa, Simba and Nala, featuring the voices of Donald Glover and Beyoncé, brought in $75 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Its domestic total of $350 million makes it the year’s fourth highest-grossing film after just 10 days of release.

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‘Orange Is The New Black’ Gives Back

‘OITNB’ has received four People’s Choice Awards, a SAG Award, along with many other prestigious awards.

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Jay-Z Joins Forces With Netflix

The movie will be directed by Jeymes Samuel, who worked with Jay on The Great Gatsby soundtrack under the pseudonym The Bullits.

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Wendy Williams Biopic In The Works

“I’m executive producing my biopic,” she said. “The movie will be two hours and then the documentary will be two hours. It’s like a Wendy’s night on Lifetime!”

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Meek Mill’s Conviction Thrown Out, Granted New Trial

“The past 11 years have been mentally and emotionally challenging, but I’m ecstatic that justice prevailed,” Williams said in a statement. “Unfortunately, millions of people are dealing with similar issues in our country and don’t have the resources to fight back like I did. We need to continue supporting them.”

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Brian McKnight Gives Fans Love Album They’ve Been Waiting On

“It’s 60 minutes of love-making music,” the crooner said, with a smile, about the new release. “I don’t know what anybody else’s situation is, you might just need 7 minutes or 12 minutes or 20 minutes, but I’m giving you 60 so that you can just press play and let it flow, let it happen.”

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Meek Mill Launches New Record Label With Jay-Z’s Roc Nation

“Of course I had offers to do a lot of business with other people, but the relationship we’ve built from (Roc Nation) believing in me through my whole career, through my ups and downs and the morals they showed to me and my team when it wasn’t in their best interest to have showed it — I feel comfortable going through this right here at home,” Mill said. “We’re ready to work. We’re just starting the beginning of a new chapter, a new page.”

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White Man Denies Saying ‘Go Back Where You Came From’

In a tearful Facebook video posted Friday, Thomas said she was in the express line because she is nine months pregnant and cannot stand for long. Thomas’ video went viral as the hashtag #IStandwithErica trended on Twitter.

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Art Neville, Member Of Neville Brothers, Meters, Dies At 81

The cause of death was not immediately available but Neville had battled a number of health issues including complications from back surgery.

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Marvel’s Next Films Will Bring Diversity, Onscreen And Off

“It’s really interesting because when we were looking for a director, you start to see some of the systemic problems,” Johansson said. “Even looking for a female director who has had enough experience — who has had the opportunity to have the experience to sit at the helm of something huge like this, you know, choices are limited because of that. And it sucks.”

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‘Dear White People’ Season 3 Trailer Released

This season is going to give the viewers suspense, humor, and of course drama.

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Lil Nas X Ties Billboard Record Set By Mariah, ‘Despacito’

“Old Town Road” logs its 16th week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this week, matching the success that Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” achieved in 1995-1996. Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito” accomplished the feat in 2017.

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JAY-Z Becomes Chief Brand Strategist Of Cannabis Company

“Anything I do, I want to do correctly and at the highest level,”said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Kirk Franklin Biopic In Motion

Christian and Gospel singer, Kirk Franklin, life story will soon be portrayed on the big screen.

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Bill Cosby’s Mental Health Is Reportedly Declining, Asking for His Late Daughter

“It leads to an awkward silence, then his memory clears-and he reels over her death all over again,” says an insider to Radar Online.

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The New 007 Is A Woman, And She’s Black!

James Bond franchise is being remixed with Black British actress, Lashana Lynch.

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‘RHOP’ Star Ashley Darby’s Reacts To Husband’s Sexual Assault Accusation

“I knew if I got sad and I broke down, Michael would feel bad or guilty, so I wanted to be strong for him. So when I saw everybody, I put on my smiling face,’ Ashley said in the episode. “I don’t want people to see me wallowing and see me sad or crying and think that I’m weak or don’t believe in my husband,” she continued.

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K. Michelle Announces Fifth Studio Album

“We create our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about our ourselves. I could say I hate you, but I’ll just say you made a monster out of me,” she said.

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$3.2M Award, Cut Costs May Not Save Baltimore Symphony

The Baltimore Sun reports the SC&H Group audit released Tuesday says both methods would only temporarily help BSO unless additional revenues streams are established. It says it’s unclear if the orchestra will survive the year.

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R. Kelly Doesn’t Have Freedom, Money For Legal Battle

“You are almost better off asking what’s not different for him, the situation is like night and day,” said Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago. “R. Kelly is now facing an array of challenges that he wasn’t facing years ago and the resources the federal government can bring to bear far exceed anything he faced in state court.”

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Angie Stone Releases New Album, Full Circle

Neo-soul songstress Angie Stone is back on the scene with her eighth studio album, Full Circle.

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2019 Emmy Nominations: Full List

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will air Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. ET at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

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CBS News Takes Some Chances With New Anchor, Norah O’Donnell

“Why not try something that could distinguish us and have the ability to bring us closer to the people who make decisions that are in the news?” said Zirinsky, who enjoyed nearly 20 years working in CBS’ Washington bureau. “That’s not constricting. That’s liberating. That opens channels for us.”

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Jennifer Lopez Makes Up Concert Interrupted By Power Outage

Lopez’s show was cut short on Saturday night when problems at a substation left parts of Manhattan without electricity. The Garden, Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts were all evacuated.

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Diddy’s ‘Making the Band’ Officially Coming Back To TV

The global casting call for the show begins Monday across social media platforms.

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Meek Mill Seeks New Trial, Judge After Decade-Long Probation

Prosecutors under District Attorney Larry Krasner have filed a motion supporting his bid to toss the conviction and be retried under a new judge.

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R. Kelly Expected To Appear For Court Hearing Tuesday

A judge is expected to rule on whether Kelly can be released on bond in the Chicago indictment before facing the New York charges. Prosecutors want Kelly to remain in federal custody, where he’s been since his arrest Thursday, because they say he’s dangerous and a flight risk.

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Kenya Moore Returns To ‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’

“It broke my heart, but with all the stress I went through with this baby, I don’t know how I could have done it,” Kenya said. “Even now, breastfeeding every three hours, changing diapers, being up at all hours. I just don’t think I could have been present.”

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Review: ‘Lion King’ Returns But It’s Harder To Feel The Love

It’s easy to greet these remakes both cynically and a little eagerly. In the case of “The Lion King,” the songs are still good, the Shakespearean story still solid. And, well, Beyonce’s in it.

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Jerry Lawson, Leader Of A Cappella Persuasions, Dies At 75

“After working together at the Hurricane Katrina Benefit Concert, I admired the undeniable depth in Jerry’s big voice,” Stewart said in a statement. “A true soul singer.”

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Feds Bring New Sex Crime Charges Against R. Kelly

He was arrested after the indictment was handed down earlier Thursday in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Chicago federal court on Tuesday afternoon.

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August Alsina Hospitalized After Losing His Ability To Walk

“We’re doing a bunch of tests and they’re saying I have some nerve damage going on throughout my body,” August explains. “It’s like my immune system went on vacation. So, I’m just waiting on it to come back and we can get together and it can do what it do, man.”

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Singer Monica Says ‘The Other Woman’ Isn’t To Blame

Monica and Shannon secretly got married in L.A. of November 2010 and kept their marriage under wraps. In January 2011, they went public with their marriage and had a second ceremony for family and friends in July 2011.

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Jada Pinkett Smith And Will Smith Launch Media Venture

In a statement, the couple said Westbrook’s mission is “to spread positive ideas, art and products that entertain and empower the greatest number of lives.”

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‘Orange Is The New Black’ Leaves Legacy For Women Of Color

The award-winning Netflix series also became a showcase for actresses of color, thanks to nuanced story lines with depth that have often proved elusive.

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Chris Brown’s ‘INDIGO’ Album Moonwalks To No. 1

Chris Brown’s latest album, “INDIGO”, is the number one album in the country this week.

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Serena Williams Opens Up About Seeking Therapy After 2018 US Open Controversy

“I still couldn’t find peace. I started seeing a therapist. I was searching for answers, and although I felt like I was making progress, I still wasn’t ready to pick up a racket. “

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Beyoncé Drops New Original Song From ‘The Lion King’

The tune comes at a pivotal moment for Nala, the character voiced by Beyoncé, in the film that comes out July 18. She also co-wrote the song.

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California Becomes 1st State To Ban Hairstyle Discrimination

“We are changing the course of history, hopefully, across this country by acknowledging that what has been defined as professional hair styles and attire in the work place has historically been based on a Euro-centric model — based on straight hair,” Mitchell said.

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