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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
“I am not cognitively impaired. No. But I feel like I’m in prison," said former talk show host Wendy Williams to Power 105.1 NYC's "The Breakfast Club." Williams was able to publicly open up, for the first time, about the guardianship she is under, during an interview with co-hosts Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy, and Jess Hilarious, as well as guest host Loren LoRosa Boyd on Jan. 16, 2025.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
uptownmagazine.com | Annika Harris
"Last night @kimmelscomedyclub, it was difficult to get on stage and bring laughter in such a dark time," Kym Whitley captioned an Instagram reel posted on Jan. 13, 2025. "We laughed together. We cried together and we talked about what is next. Met a lot of people on (their) way to help #losangeles."January 12 marked the second week of "KYM WHITLEY LIVE IN VEGAS," the comedian's aptly named Las Vegas residency, at Jimmy Kimmel Comedy Club.
