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Actress Issa Rae dripping melanin as she covers Ebony Magazine’s September 2018 Fashion Issue (Photos)

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Issa Rae is the epitome black beauty on the cover of Ebony Magazine‘s September 2018 issue.  The 33-year-old actress and producer talks to the magazine about empowering a new generation of creatives using stories of black experience, sisterhood, and racial issues. See her editorial spread from the shoot of the Fashion Issue below. Read more about the issue here.

Actor Richard Gere, 69, 'set to become a father again with new wife Alejandra Silva'

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Hollywood actor Richard Gere is reportedly set to become a dad again. The screen icon-turned humanitarian activist is expecting his first child with new wife Alejandra Silva, Spanish daily ABC has claimed. The Madrid-based newspaper broke the news of Gere’s wedding to the pretty Spaniard, 33 years his junior, earlier this year. The Pretty Woman star tied the knot with Alejandra after four years together at a civil ceremony in Spain in April before celebrating the occasion with friends and family at the actor’s home near New York the following month. ABC said it was not yet clear if the child would be born in Spain or the States, where Alejandra is now believed to be based most of the time. The pair both have children of their own. Richard Gere, who will celebrate his 69th birthday at the end of this month, has an 18-year-old son called Homer with former wife Carey Lowell. Alejandra, who met her current husband while divorcing her first husband Govind Friedland, has a five-year

Brad Pitt says he's paid Angelina Jolie over $9m since split as hits back at her claims he's a deadbeat dad

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Brad Pitt has fired back at estrange wife, Angelina Jolie's claims that he failed to pay enough child support to the her amid their bitter split. Attorneys for the actress alleged on Tuesday that the actor hasn't paid 'meaningful' child support for 18 months, according to court documents by dailymail 'As of present, [Pitt] has paid no meaningful child support since separation,' Jolie's attorney, Samantha Bley DeJean wrote. The actress-turned-director alleged her third husband has not been meeting his financial obligations and has demanded the court force him to pay up.  'Given the informal arrangements around the payment of the children's expenses have not been regularly sustained by [Pitt] for over a year and a half, [Jolie] intends to file an RFO for the establishment of a retroactive child support order,' the filing says.

I was a broke boy sleeping in studios... Skales

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After E.M.E I was a broke boy, I was homeless, sleeping from one studio to the other but I had a car. I wasn’t a friend of Olamide but he just liked me since when I was in E.M.E. I never told anybody that I didn’t have anywhere to stay. One day I went to Timaya’s house and it got late at night. I didn’t have anywhere to go. I was sleeping in the car outside Timaya’s house and the gateman told him “Skales is outside sleeping in the car.” Timaya came and asked me what’s going on? He looked at the back of the car and saw my bags which means practically I was living in a mobile house. Timaya asked me to move into his house and gave me his pent house which was really big. And that was where I recorded ‘Shake Body.’ When I released ‘Shake Body,’ I didn’t have money for promo. I just had one manager (Osagie) that believed in me. The song was everywhere but I didn’t have money to shoot the video and I wasn’t getting shows. People didn’t really know it was me that sang the song. One day, Olam

Couple charged with murder after 10-month Old daughter dies of malnutrition due to religious beliefs

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An American couple have been charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse for allegedly allowing their 10-month-old daughter die after refusing to seek medical help for religious reasons. Child Protective Services filed a neglect lawsuit against Tatiana Fusari and Seth Welch on Monday and if convicted, they are getting life sentence without parole. Daily Mail UK  reports that 10-month-old Mary was found on Thursday by first responders with sunken eyes and cheeks and confirmed dead in her crib. A Friday autopsy revealed she died of malnutrition and dehydration due to neglect by her parents. The parents admitted noticing their daughter was skinny and underweight as early as a month before her death but did not seek medical attention for her “for fear of having Child Protective Services called, lack of faith and trust in medical services and religious reasons,” court documents reveal. The report also confirms that before Mary’s death, Seth had constantly express

Carl Ikeme discusses beating Cancer in new Interview

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Retired Super Eagles and Wolverhampton goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, is in full remission after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia 13 months ago and says he feels grateful to savour simple pleasures again The footballer has in an interview with  Guardian discussed how he felt when he was diagnosed with the cancer. He’s always been a positive person, he said, but the diagnosis left him devastated. It was the doctor at Wolves. I remember him talking about Stiliyan Petrov and Geoff Thomas, and I knew what it was. I was devastated. He said that at first, he thought, “Why me?” But then he realized he’s had a blessed life, had lived his dream, so why not him. The first day or two maybe, you do think: ‘Why me? I’m not a bad person.’ But then afterwards, I thought: ‘I’ve been overly blessed in so many ways that other people haven’t. I had a baby daughter, another one coming, I got to live my dream by playing football for a living, so why not me?’ His children, though, were all the mo