Casting herself as the Democratic Party’s best hope for unseating Republican incumbent Henry McMaster and rolling back decades of GOP control over state government, state Sen. Mia McLeod became the latest contender to jump into the 2022 race for South Carolina governor.
If elected, McLeod would be South Carolina’s first Black chief executive and the first Black woman to serve as a governor in U.S. history. The 52-year-old Columbia lawmaker was first elected to the S.C. House in 2010 befor
The fast food chain Chick-fil-A sent out an email to customers promoting National Sandwich Day – even though its restaurants are closed on that same day.
The annual day falls this year on November 3, which is this coming Sunday.
But Chick-fil-A is famous not just for its popular chicken sandwiches but also for its longstanding policy of closing on Sunday.
The Georgia-based company sent another email to customers apologizing for the confusion.
‘We recently sent an email that included a message
His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman and was immediately led away in handcuffs at age 81, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison.
The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall from grace for the comedian, former TV star and breaker of racial barriers.
“It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The t
Less than a month after he released his debut album Trap Holizay, Atlanta-based hit-maker Zaytoven returns with Let the Trap Say Amen, a full-length collaborative project with Lecrae.
“When you hear the term ‘trap music’ you most likely think of an ode to drugs, dealing, money, and mayhem. But truthfully, the production sets the scene first,” he wrote. “Dope boys want to rap over a particular soundscape. Zaytoven, Metro Boomin, and Murda Beatz, amongst others, provide that. There was a t
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday, July 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Declaring America in crisis, Donald Trump pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters Thursday night that as president he will restore the safety they fear they’re losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from Hillary Clinton’s record of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.”
Confidentl
For young Ed McCree, enslaved on a thousand-acre Georgia cotton plantation, Christmas and New Year’s Day 150 years ago were like none he’d ever known. After time off for Christmas and feasts with young pigs, cattle, and peaches (still summer-sweet because they were packed in wheat straw and cottonseed that kept them fresh), New Year’s Day typically meant that McCree would be again forced to carry buckets of water to the men and women working in the fields.
The difference that December 1864? Wi
Denzel Washington finds himself among Hollywood’s 10 most overpaid actors…according to numbers crunched by Forbes magazine.
The annual list exposes those whose movies bring in the lowest return on the studio’s investment.
Adam Sandler tops the list for the second year in a row, with Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller, Ryan Reynolds and Tom Hanks, right behind him.
Will Ferrell, Channing Tatum, Washington, Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck round out the top 10.
To come up with the list, Forbes uses data f
Solange Knowles will marry longtime boyfriend Alan Ferguson in New Orleans this Sunday
Solange Knowles is set to marry her longtime video director boyfriend Alan Ferguson on Sunday.
The 28-year-old DJ, who has managed to keep her relationship and engagement rather private – will be tying the knot in New Orleans, in the home she shares with Alan and her 10-year-old son Julez.
UsWeekly reports the younger sister of Beyonce will marry her beau in front of friends and family after a weekend of ce
Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots reacts during the second quarter against the Denver Broncos at Gillette Stadium on November 2, 2014 in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
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The chant began midway through the fourth quarter with the latest matchup between the all-time great quarterbacks long ago decided:
“Brady’s Better.”
On this day, Tom Brady and his New England Patriots certainly were the superior team, routing Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos 43-21 o
Rex Ryan has announced that Michael Vick will start at quarterback over Geno Smith in the New York Jets’ game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
Ryan says Monday that the decision “isn’t any long-term deal or whatever,” but adds that it is “the right decision for this time.”
Smith, in his second season, was benched in the first quarter of the Jets’ 43-23 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday after throwing interceptions on three consecutive possessions. Vick took over and provided a spar
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Tom Brady and the Patriots routed the Bengals and quieted the doubters.
The three-time Super Bowl winner finally looked like a quarterback who has thrown for 50,000 yards in his career as New England dominated the NFL’s last unbeaten team, beating Cincinnati 43-17 Sunday night.
Just six days earlier, the Patriots lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 41-14, unleashing criticism that Brady had regressed and lacked talented teammates to help him.
”It’s hard to be obliv
The Giants will take on the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Oct. 19.
The Texas city has been in the news of late because a man in Dallas has become the first person in the United States with a confirmed Ebola virus diagnosis.
TMZ caught up with Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, and in a video posted on the website on Thursday morning a reporter asked the executive if he’s concerned about Big Blue playing in Dallas.
“I think the Cowboys are going to get it first,” Tisch said jokingly. “S
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Update: The New York Times‘ public editor Margaret Sullivan has added an update to her original post about the paper’s apology:
Early Monday afternoon, I spoke to the culture editor, Danielle Mattoon. She told me that arts and culture editors are well aware of the response to the piece, and she offered words of regret, as well as an explanation and a resolution for the future. ” There was never any intent to offend anyone and I deeply regret that it did
LeBron James had some business to take care of before rejoining the Cleveland Cavaliers for training camp.
He was at Nike’s corporate headquarters Tuesday for the unveiling of his new shoe, the LeBron 12. It is his first new shoe with Nike since he returned this summer to the Cavs.
The rollout comes less than two weeks before the four-time league MVP reports to training camp. The Cavs open the season on Oct. 30 at home against the New York Knicks.
The shoe, his 12th since signing with Nike
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The #noangel in question here is Darren Wilson, not Michael Brown.
On the day of Michael Brown’s funeral, the New York Times picked the most inappropriate time to lambaste the slain teenager. In the piece chronicling Brown’s last weeks of life, before he was killed by Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson, New York Times writer John Eligon stated that Brown was “no angel” partly because of his love of rap lyrics, having “dabbled in” drugs and alcohol, and get
Robert Griffin III said he hopes to pick Tom Brady’s brain when the Redskins and Patriots hold joint practices this week.
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Robert Griffin III already has played against elite quarterbacks — ones with Super Bowls in their past and Hall of Fame speeches in their future.
Griffin hasn’t spent three days practicing against one, however, and that’s why he’s looking forward to the Washington Redskins’ workouts this week with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
The teams wi
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The following post contains details from the first and second seasons of Orange Is the New Black. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you.)
I love my Don Drapers and Walter Whites, but we were long overdue for a Piper Chapman. She’s the main character of Orange Is the New Black, a Brooklyn yuppie serving time for crimes committed in her adventurous youth (based on the real-life Piper Kerman, whose memoir inspired the show). Her story is not, at least after two seasons, a
The West View News ran this op-ed using an offensive word to describe President Obama (West View News)
A local paper is making national headlines thanks to a questionable word choice in one of its own news headlines.
The West View News, a monthly paper in New York’s West Village with a circulation of around 20,000, ran an op-ed from author James Lincoln Collier titled “N—-r in the White House.”
If the headline wasn’t strange and shocking enough, the New York Post reports that the op-ed is act
The Christian rap community immediately began buzzing when word hit the streets that Reach Records CEO Lecrae will be dropping a new project this year.
Anomaly, the seventh studio album from the lyricist is due out this August he revealed on Twitter. As new details leak, Turnt Up can confirm, via Rapzilla, the worship leader Kari Jobe will be one of the features on the project.
Anomaly, arguably the perfect title, means something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. And w
