*Actor Forest Whitaker is set to receive the Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film at the eighth annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The star of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” will be feted at the event in California on Dec. 15. Announcing this year’s recipient, movie veteran Kirk Douglas said, “Forest Whitaker is […]
Users and those who get the EBT card will start seeing some changes, and not in a good way. (RNN/CNN) – Millions of Americans who rely on food stamps will soon see a change in benefits. Starting Friday, on Nov. 1, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – also known as food stamps – will […]
Reverend Joseph “Run” Simmons (pictured left) and wife Justine Simmons (pictured right) will be hosting their own daytime talk show , according to Always A-List. RELATED: Rev. Run Is Going To Be A Grandfather! The couple filmed a pilot for the show before an ABC studio audience in August on the “Live With Kelly and Michael” set […]
CLEVELAND – The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is seeking additional workers to serve as poll workers during the Nov. 5 general election. Poll workers earn $172.10 for their service. Duties include successfully completing a poll worker training class, attending a 6 p.m. meeting the night before the election and working Election Day from […]
Whoa, this is BIG. NBC, according to Deadline, has plans to bring back “Murder She Wrote,” one of the most watched shows in television history. And they’re going to do it with Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) succeeding Angela Lansbury in the lead role of an astute amateur detective. The new hour-long project, […]
*Less than 24 hours after the news that Barneys and the New York Police Department are being sued for discrimination by 19-year-old college student Trayon Christian, a second African American shopper has come forward with the same allegations. Kayla Phillips, a 21-year-old nursing student from Brooklyn, told the New York Daily News that she […]
The number of power outages is at about 40,000 with a drop in Cuyahoga County but a sharp jump in Geauga County, according to the FirstEnergy outage map. There are more than 15,000 people in Geauga County without power, which is up from 13,636 earlier. The number of outages in Cuyahoga County dropped from […]
CLEVELAND – As you head to the malls to do your holiday shopping, be careful. There’s a lot of damage to be done, and not just to your wallet. Consumer Reports tells us about the dangerous temptations lurking in the food court. Take a Cinnabon Classic. It’s loaded with 880 calories-that’s roughly half of […]
This morning on “NewsOne Now,” Roland Martin talked with Kelly Price about her reality TV experience while on “R&B Dvas: LA.” Some would say the “Friend of Mine” singer was the villain of the cast, but Price doesn’t think her experiences on the show were in vain: “I don’t ever want to do that again, but I won’t […]
Welp anyone who watched the TLC biopic (which was a story about the rise of the girl group TLC as told by TLC group members T-Boz and Chilli) will not be shocked to hear what AllHipHop.com is reporting today about the fallout from the movie. It seems that Miss Pebbles is beyond upset about […]
Well okay then…according to TMZ, Evelyn Lozada is T-I-R-E-D of speaking about her relationship and subsequent break up with Chad Johnson and since she knew that was going to be the main focus of the Basketball Wives Reunion Special she decided to pull out of the show completely. This move left VH1 with a […]
Sheila Stewart, a Radio One personality in Washington D.C., was killed in a car accident in Atlanta, Ga., this morning, NBC Washington reports. Details behind the cause of the accident are not known at this time. Stewart, who has more than 20 years in the radio business, was staying with her sister and working […]