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2 weeks ago | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
A married couple who were content creators are dead after rival takes YouTube beef to the Las Vegas Strip. While most people spend hours upon hours of their day online, we still don't know who may be behind the screen watching, lurking, or stalking. It could be an unhinged person whose online life fatally spreads to the real world.
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2 weeks ago | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
"I deal with a lot of very serious health conditions–lupus being one of them with organ involvement–and so I don't think people understand when I go on that stage I'm literally putting my life on the line and giving it my all with one functioning lung, so to have that help to have that support so that I could soar over the top of it and then sometimes it's a good day and my lungs what to behave like today and I'll be able to really give y’all some notes." – Muni Long discusses the impact her...
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2 months ago | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
I am a lifelong reality TV watcher. I remember watching Cops with my mom, aunt, and cousins on Fox 5 New York on Saturday nights. (Hey, it was the 1980s and we didn't have cable.) The Real World was appointment viewing from my preteen years to my early twenties, basically the first season in New York City to the 12th one in Las Vegas.
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2 months ago | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
For the past several months, I've really gotten into watching thriller films. My requirements are that they either have a comedic theme and/or a suspension of beliefs element to them, like M3GAN and Abigail, or are cerebral, macabre, or gory, such as The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster and Speak No Evil. So after watching the trailer for A24's Opus, I knew it would be the perfect movie to stream this upcoming stormy weekend in the Bronx.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
Dove and RISE.365 have joined forces on a campaign to make the emoji library more conducive to visibility, self-expression, and digital inclusivity. On March 26, they formally called on Unicode Consortium to add four emojis that accurately represent the texture, buoyancy, and flavor of Black hairstyles.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
Conjugal visits, like so many practices and institutions in the so-called land of the free United States, have a racist history behind their inception. The phrase "conjugal visit" has recently been on the minds of many true crime followers, not just prisoners, since news broke of David Brinson, 54, allegedly strangling his wife Stephanie Dowells, 62, in November of 2024 at Mule Creek State Prison in Northern California, during one of the controversial visits.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
"It’s not something I thought about very much. I’m a bit of a racehorse; I focus intensely on what’s in front of me and then I go back to the stable and go to sleep."– Regé-Jean Page revealed to Entertainment Tonight that he is too focused on his current projects to think about whether he'll take on the role of James Bond in the future.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
Dawn Robinson, former singer for En Vogue, Lucy Pearl, and The Firm, revealed on her YouTube channel on March 11, 2025 that she has been unhoused and living in her car for nearly three years. So how does a performer who helped a dynamic and iconic girl group reportedly sell over 20 million records get in this situation? Robinson explains in a video titled, "Your New Life is in the Scary 🫣," that she, like millions of other Americans, experienced hard times during the pandemic.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
Karen Huger was taken into police custody, once again, after officially being sentenced today in a Montgomery County Circuit Court to two years in prison, with one year suspended, for her drunk driving case. The "Grand Dame" of The Real Housewives of Potomac will also have to serve five years probation for the single vehicle crash into a street sign in March 2024. Body camera footage from her arrest at the scene and her interrogation showed Huger visibly intoxicated and slurring her words.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
On February 5, multi-hyphenate entertainer Keke "BIG BOSS" Palmer celebrated her new role as the first-ever chief brand officer of Creme of Nature during an intimate dinner at Kokomo (65 Kent Ave.) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition to serving as an on-camera model and spokesperson, the Emmy Award-winner will "help shape (Creme of Nature) product lines, consult behind-the-scenes on product innovation, advise on packaging evolution, and share product demos" according to a release.
