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Former Nickelodeon star Kianna Underwood killed in hit-and-run incident

Kianna Underwood, a talented actress who appeared on Nickelodeon’s “All That” as a child and toured on the hit musical “Hairspray,” has died following a hit-and-run accident in New York. She was 33. Multiple news outlets, including TMZ, Variety and People confirmed Underwood’s death. The actress was crossing the street around 6:50 a.m. in

Tina Knowles attends Vanderbilt’s course on Beyoncé

A Vanderbilt course focused on Beyoncé recently welcomed one special guest: the icon’s mother, Tina Knowles. On Wednesday (Jan. 14), the 72-year-old matriarch virtually joined the class “Beyoncé: Epic Artist, Feminist Icon,” taught by Professors Michael Eric Dyson and Gilman Whiting, The Tennessean reported. According to Whiting and Dyson, the

We can’t help but remember how big the year 2016 was for Black culture

Rihanna’s “Anti” is bumping — or maybe it’s Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen.” Obama is still in office. Issa Rae is on our screens. And while lots of the ladies are donning either shiny wigs or rocking curly manes that smell like shea butter, the fellas are stepping out in ripped

Arkansas to set a first-of-its-kind ban on all outside books from prisons

Arkansas is poised to impose what advocates say is the most extreme restriction in the nation on access to reading material behind bars: a total ban on sending books, magazines or newspapers into state prisons from any outside source. The policy, adopted by the Arkansas Board of Corrections on Dec.

Former Nickelodeon star Kianna Underwood killed in hit-and-run incident

Kianna Underwood, a talented actress who appeared on Nickelodeon’s “All That” as a child and toured on the hit musical “Hairspray,” has died following a hit-and-run accident in New York. She was 33. Multiple news outlets, including TMZ, Variety and People confirmed Underwood’s death. The actress was crossing the street around 6:50 a.m. in

Tina Knowles attends Vanderbilt’s course on Beyoncé

A Vanderbilt course focused on Beyoncé recently welcomed one special guest: the icon’s mother, Tina Knowles. On Wednesday (Jan. 14), the 72-year-old matriarch virtually joined the class “Beyoncé: Epic Artist, Feminist Icon,” taught by Professors Michael Eric Dyson and Gilman Whiting, The Tennessean reported. According to Whiting and Dyson, the

We can’t help but remember how big the year 2016 was for Black culture

Rihanna’s “Anti” is bumping — or maybe it’s Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen.” Obama is still in office. Issa Rae is on our screens. And while lots of the ladies are donning either shiny wigs or rocking curly manes that smell like shea butter, the fellas are stepping out in ripped

Arkansas to set a first-of-its-kind ban on all outside books from prisons

Arkansas is poised to impose what advocates say is the most extreme restriction in the nation on access to reading material behind bars: a total ban on sending books, magazines or newspapers into state prisons from any outside source. The policy, adopted by the Arkansas Board of Corrections on Dec.