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Byron Allen has been on a media-buying shopping spree that shows no signs of slowing down, investing this year alone in small- and medium-sized TV station markets around the U.S. to the tune of almost half a billion dollars. The CEO of Entertainment Studios and Allen Media, Allen announced this …

Michelle Obama is opening up about her fitness regimen. On Sunday, the former First Lady shared a photo of herself on Instagram lifting an exercise ball while squatting at the gym. “It doesn’t always feel good in the moment,” Obama, 55, wrote. “But after the fact, I’m always glad I …

Reckless driving caused the California crash last month that injured actor and comedian Kevin Hart and two other people, the state highway patrol said in a report released Thursday.Jared Black, 28, was behind the wheel of Hart’s 1970 Plymouth Barracuda in the early hours of 1 September when he lost …

Oprah Winfrey shocked a ballroom full of people this weekend during a fundraiser event in Charlotte, North Carolina when she announced she would personally add over $1 million to a fund meant to help local students attend historically African-American colleges. The fundraiser, launched by the United Negro College Fund, had …

A 14-year-old Georgia girl will be the youngest student to attend Spelman College after excelling academically from a young age. Sydney Wilson was solving algebraic equations in the first grade and began taking high-school level classes at The Wilson Academy when she was ten. The Wilson Academy is a year-round …

A passenger on one of the final Thomas Cook flights caught an emotional moment on camera, as a cabin crew member broke down in tears during his landing announcement. Andrew Whitmore, 48, filmed the moving speech made by Alex, who worked for Thomas Cook, on the flight from Cancun, Mexico …

In recent time, Nigeria has been seen as home to many talented people in the world as her citizens have proven themselves in almost every field in the world. Silas Adekunle is a top robotics engineer in the world. He built a gaming machine that became a worldwide sensation and …

Kalisa Villafana, originally from Trinidad & Tobago, currently works as a process engineer at Intel Corporation in Chandler, Arizona. A month ago, she made history to become Florida State University’s first African-American woman recipient of a doctoral degree in nuclear physics. Villafana put on her graduation regalia on Friday Aug. …

Serena Williams is considered by many to be the greatest female tennis player of all time. Some might even argue she’s the greatest female athlete this world has ever seen. But despite her undeniable achievements, Williams has had to endure multiple instances of discrimination throughout her career, which often tap …

Sherry Galloway could always keep track of her daughter, Sarah, by the sound of her voice. Sarah, 38, has Down syndrome, and loves to talk out loud to herself — usually pretend conversations with friends or commentary about events at her day program for adults with disabilities. But on March …