Members of a Georgia church are taking action against the pastor who banned a 103-year-old woman by ordering him to step down, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Genora H. Biggs‘ story gained national attention in August when she was kicked out of Mount Grove Baptist Church, a place she attended regularly for 92 years. After voicing […]

  GEAUGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – On the two-year anniversary of the deadly shooting at Chardon High School, the father of one of the victims was found dead. Russell King, Sr. was found dead at his home around 5 a.m. Thursday by a family member. No word on a cause of death at this time. Foul play […]

  Sasheer Zamata, who has worked tirelessly in social media, has won approval from a diverse set of comedic performers everywhere.   “Saturday Night Live” will add Sasheer Zamata to its cast this month, according to a spokesperson for the show. Deadline first broke the news that Zamata will join the cast after months of […]

  *Deadline.com has posted a list of African American women finalists who will compete next week in New York for a gig on “Saturday Night Live.” “No one is talking,” writes Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, “but I have compiled the names of nine young performers rumored to potentially take the ‘SNL’ stage on Monday to vie […]

  *Civil rights group ColorofChange.org is asking “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels to address the show’s lack of black female cast members and has penned a letter to Michaels and the NBC show’s producers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Since Maya Rudolph’s departure in 2007, SNL has failed to cast even one black woman […]

Herb Reed (pictured), the founding and very last surviving original member of the hottest pop vocal group of the 1950′s The Platters, died Sunday at age 83, after a period of declining health, reports the Boston Business Journal. Reed, who was a Kansas City, Missouri, native and born in to abject poverty, lost his parents when he […]