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The City Girls are back as a team now that J.T. has officially been released from jail after serving more than a year in prison on credit card fraud charges!
Quality Control (QC) Records celebrates J.T.’s release with a new City Girls track called “First Day Out”.
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Black men matter. Period. That is the message that Oprah Winfrey conveyed yesterday when she surprised Morehouse College with another huge donation.
Winfrey donated $13 million to the historically black all-male college on Monday (October 8) further contributing to her scholarship program at the institution that was founded more than 150 years ago to educate African American men.
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Another day, another made for tv lawsuit! This time it’s Evelyn Lozada of Basketball Wives who is utilizing the courts for publicity.
Lozada claims she’s lost several endorsement deals after one of her “Basketball Wives” costars labeled her a “racist” and now she’s filed a lawsuit for defamation.
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Tameka “Tiny” Harris is out of almost a million dollars in jewelry that she inadvertently left in her vehicle Sunday evening.
Tiny, who has been gifted several pricy trinkets over the years from her superstar husband T.I., claims that she was robbed of several rings, watches and earrings left in the center console of her Lamborghini SUV as she dined in a popular Buckhead eatery.
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Beyonce and Jay-Z were among the hundreds of guests invited to attend the grand opening gala for Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta this past weekend but they avoided the red carpet and arrived just in time for the festivities.
[READ: Tyler Perry Studio’s Star-Studded Grand Opening Gala (RED CARPET PHOTOS)]
The superstar recently shared a touching tribute to Perry as she reminisced about the star-studded gala, admitting that Perry’s major accomplishment, literally brought her to tears.
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Tyler Perry Studios welcomed guests to celebrate on the 330-acre lot, where sound stage dedications were made in honor of Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Sir Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and the late John Singleton, Diahann Carroll, and Della Reese.
Celebrities came out in droves to honor Perry’s accomplishment as nearly 800 people walked the red carpet prior to the event.
Guests included Beyonce and Jay-Z, President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Diddy, Ava DuVernay, Samuel L. Jackson, Viola Davis, John Lewis, Bernice King, Stacey Abrams, Maxine Waters, Tiffany Haddish, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, Jeezy, Ludacris, Usher, Tyrese, 2 Chainz, TI, Terrance Howard, Gladys Knight, Gayle King, Jenifer Lewis, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Patti LaBelle, Tina Knowles, Tamron Hall, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Storm Reid, and BeBe Winans, among several hundred others.
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