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The Houston rapper says she had emergency surgery earlier this week after feeling a sharp pain in her lower abdomen.
Monaleo has officially canceled the rest of the “Who Did The Body” tour, after sharing earlier this week that she had a health scare.
The Houston rapper called the decision the hardest she’s had to make in her entire career in a statement on Friday (March 6).
“First I want to say thank you for all the support you’ve shown me over the last few days. It’s been so encouraging to see that my transparency had a positive impact and resonated with so many people,” Monaleo said in a statement posted on social media. “With that said, after talking with my doctors and my team, I’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the remaining dates on the Who Did The Body Tour.”
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The statement also acknowledged that the decision to cancel the rest of the tour instead of rescheduling dates was a “day-by-day process,” in which she ultimately concluded she was “not in a position to get back on stage the way you deserve.”
“I gave everything I had to every city, every crowd, every night. This tour has been such an incredible chapter in my life, and I hate that this is how it has to end for now. But my health has to and always will come first.”
On March 3, the “Putting Ya Dine” rapper opened up to fans about having to go to the hospital after feeling “a sharp pain” in her lower abdomen, which ended up being “an inflamed cyst the size of a softball” and resulted in her having emergency surgery.
At the time, Monaleo appeared to have been monitoring her health to see if she could continue touring, and she also took the opportunity to tell fans to “listen to your body” when something feels off.
“I’m not sure how long this healing process will take,” she said on Tuesday. “I do want to say this, though: listen to your body when things are off. As a person who hates ERs and never wants to go, this could’ve been a lot worse.”
Monaleo kicked off the “Who Did The Body Tour” on November 30 and was set to travel throughout the U.S. and Canada until 21. She now says she is taking the month to recover, and looks forward to “hitting the road harder than ever” when she’s back.
“Pimpcess down, but never out,” she said.
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Don Toliver is coming off another successful album, which raises the question of where he really lands within the rap game.
Don Toliver is coming off another successful album, which raises the question of where he really lands within the rap game.
The Houston artist dropped his fifth studio album, OCTANE, on January 30, starting 2026 off with new music for his fans. The project has been highly regarded by critics and listeners alike, with many calling it his best body of work to date.
That’s a heavy claim considering the run he’s been on. His debut studio album, Heaven or Hell, marked his first full-length release under Cactus Jack Records, Travis Scott’s label. With a futuristic sound mixed with strong H-Town elements, Donny stepped on the scene and immediately stood out.
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He followed that up a year later with Life Of A Don, which really sealed the deal. At that point, it was clear Donny was on a path toward stardom.
Now with OCTANE, he’s hit another milestone. Like all of his previous studio albums, the project landed on the Billboard 200, but this time it debuted at No. 1. On top of that, his track “Rosary” featuring Travis Scott climbed to No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
During a sitdown with Billboard, Donny pulled up in a custom Porsche Dakar, explaining how the album blends two of his biggest passions: music and motors.
“All of my favorite things collide on this album. It’s an extension of me being a motorhead and loving all of that sh*t. I love cars, boats, jets, all of it. It’s me fleshing out my passions and things I grew up loving and giving it to the world through my eyes.”
With OCTANE now sitting at the top of the charts, it’s starting to look like Don Toliver isn’t just rising in rap; he’s already shifting into a whole different gear.
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Catherine Opie’s Elijah, David, Elton and Zachary (2025) © Catherine Opie; courtesy of the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Thomas Dane Gallery
The Rocket Man—aka the legendary musician Elton John—has been captured in all his (domestic) glory by Catherine Opie ahead of a major retrospective dedicated to the LGBTQ+ trailblazing photographer opening this week at the National Portrait Gallery in London (Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, 5 March-31 May). In the new portrait, on show in Room 30 (Mary Weston Gallery), the Private Dancer singer is shown at home with his husband David Furnish and his sons Zachary Furnish-John and Elijah Furnish-John. 
“Through this family portrait Opie celebrates queer and celebrity lives within the visual language of domesticity and belonging,” the gallery says. Opie chose to photograph the Furnish-John family with their pet Labradors Joseph and Jacob at their family home in Old Windsor. Opie says: “I arrived at Elton and David’s house three days before Christmas. I met the boys and the dogs and after a great lunch together I made this family portrait of them in their library. It is truly an honour to photograph Elton, David, Zachary, and Elijah. For me it represents the humanity of what family can be.” The commission is supported by the art foundation iArtis.
The new portrait will go on show in a Covid-delayed exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London
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The former NYC mayor says he has no plans to chase a movie deal, but if his life ever makes it to the big screen, he already has one actor in mind.
Former New York City mayor Eric Adams may be settling into life outside City Hall, but he already has casting ideas if Hollywood ever comes calling.
While passing through Los Angeles this week, Adams was asked a lighthearted question that has followed many political figures after leaving office: if his life were turned into a movie, who should play him?
His answer came easily.
“I’ll tell Denzel to do it,” Adams joked to TMZ.
The comment came during a quick conversation with reporters at LAX, where Adams reflected on what life has looked like since stepping away from one of the most demanding political jobs in the country. Though he joked about casting two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington, Adams made it clear he has no interest in chasing Hollywood himself.
“Nah. No,” he said when asked if he’d ever consider going into entertainment. “I’ve done enough public life.”
Instead, Adams says he’s been enjoying a different pace of life after years in politics, though his mornings look pretty familiar.
“I still get up early. I still do my meditation, my breathing, my exercise,” he explained. “I drink my green smoothie, and then I go through all the businesses.”
These days, Adams says he’s working with companies and advising cities, helping them modernize systems and apply lessons he learned while leading New York City.
“I’m dealing with a bunch of businesses now,” he said. “I’m really helping cities modernize what they’re doing, and it’s really a pleasure using that experience.”
The work has also taken him far beyond New York. Adams said he’s been traveling frequently since leaving office.
“Out of the two months I’ve been out of office, I’ve been in the city about 10 days,” he said.
Even as he embraces his new chapter, Adams still has thoughts about the job he left behind. When asked how current mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing, Adams offered a measured response that sounded a lot like advice from someone who has already walked that path.
“I say to him over and over every morning, idealism collides with realism,” Adams said. “The idealistic approach isn’t always the real approach. Government is real.”
Adams also briefly addressed rising tensions in the Middle East, warning that the U.S. should not underestimate Iran’s threats.
“I’m surprised that many people forgot what Iran has done,” he said. “Anyone who calls ‘death to America,’ you better get them first.”
Whether that movie about his life ever gets made is another question entirely. But if Adams has his way, the role already belongs to one of the most respected actors of a generation.
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“What a great debt we owe to him,” said America’s first Black president, who acknowledged how the civil rights leader paved the way for his historic presidency.
President Barack Obama delivered a rousing eulogy for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, praising the civil rights leader for paving the way for his historic presidency, while also rebuking the political climate under President Donald Trump.
“Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope, to step forward and say, ‘Send me.’ Wherever we have a chance to make an impact,” said Obama at Jackson’s funeral service on Friday, held at House of Hope Baptist Church in Chicago.
America’s first Black president continued, “Whether it’s in our school or our workplaces or our neighborhoods or our cities, not for fame, not for glory, or because success is guaranteed, but because it gives our life purpose, because it aligns with what our faith tells us God demands.”
Acknowledging Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns and how they laid the groundwork for his victorious path to the White House in 2008, the 44th president of the United States said Jackson “paved the road for so many others to follow.”
“Doug Wilder became the first elected Black governor. Carol Moseley Braun went to the U.S Senate because of Jesse. The Democratic Party changed its rules, ending the winner-take-all distribution of delegates during presidential primaries, which meant underdogs and outsiders like Bill Clinton or Bernie Sanders could stay competitive and build momentum instead of getting knocked out early,” explained Obama. “And it was because of that path that he had laid, because of his courage, his audacity, that two decades later, a young Black senator from Chicago’s South Side would even be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidential nomination.”
Obama also used his remarks to condemn the Trump administration and urged Americans to lean into Jackson’s lifelong message of hope to navigate what he called a “time when it can be hard to hope.”
“Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common decency. Every day, you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible,” said the former president. “Each day, we’re told by those in higher office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all.”
He added, “Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength, we see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards. Every single day we see that, and it’s hard to hope in those moments.”
The Chicago transplant and Hawaii native said that while it may be “tempting to get discouraged,” “give into cynicism,” or “compromise with power and grab what you can,” Jackson’s legacy calls others to take a different path.
“Because if we don’t step up, no one else will,” said Obama, adding, “How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.”

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Harmonie Wright had already lost her oldest son to gun violence. Now she must bury her youngest next to him.
A New York mother is pleading for the public to assist after her four-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver outside of a Brooklyn hospital earlier this week.
Harmonie Wright told police to “find” the driver who ran over Zachariah Padilla outside Brookdale University Hospital in Brownsville.
“God already sees you,” Wright said. “There’s no hiding place. There’s nowhere you can go if God is in charge.”
The young child’s sudden death has led to Wright noticing his absence and the silence of his voice. At her home, with her little boy no longer present, her house is empty. The tragedy is double for her as her eldest son, Elijah Jonathan Wright, was shot and killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2024. Now she will bury her youngest child next to him.
According to police, Zachariah was struck Thursday morning after breaking away from his mother on Rockaway Parkway near Linden Boulevard around 11 a.m. Per witnesses, a driver in a Ford vehicle kept going after striking the little boy, and authorities have been going over surveillance footage looking for leads.
The suspect currently remains at large.
The greater tragedy? Zacariah and Wright had just left the Brookdale Urgent Care Center on the opposite side of the hospital.
The child’s mother was nearly speechless, wondering how someone could hit her child and drive away.
“I lost everything,” Wright said. “He just f–king hit my kid and then ran him over. They messed with his brain, that’s how hard they hit him. Not only did he hit my child, he hit me too and I want justice for my child. He was my last child!”
A witness to the scene, a cab driver named Jules, saw Wright rush to her son after he was hit.
“He was lying there, bleeding all around. He was slumped on the ground,” the 70-year-old cabbie told the New York Daily News. “His mother grabbed him and lifted him up.”
“She was screaming,” Jules recalled. “He was gone, so young. I never saw anything like it.”

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Stand and deliver: Michelangelo’s study of a foot for the Sistine Chapel ceiling sold for $27.2m at Christie’s
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Diary of an art historian is a monthly blog by the British art historian, writer and broadcaster Bendor Grosvenor discussing the pressing issues facing the arts today
When does a foot cost an arm and a leg? When it’s by Michelangelo—and sells at auction for $27.2m. Sorry, there are so few jokes in art history that we must take them where we can. But the sale of Michelangelo’s newly discovered drawing of a foot at Christie’s in New York in February proved the Old Masters market has more than a leg to stand on. Whoops—another one.
As a perpetual Old Masters optimist, I was glad to see the latest round of New York sales deliver nothing but good news. The market is in excellent health. Across Sotheby’s and Christie’s, the total sales reached just over $185m. Christie’s paintings sale total of $54m was its strongest New York Old Masters result for more than a decade.
As a sign of strength in depth, Christie’s top lot was a Canaletto showing the Venetian Doge’s yacht, the Bucintoro, on Ascension Day, which made $30.5m. Just seven months earlier an almost identical scene by Canaletto was sold in London (again by Christie’s) for £31.9m. Sotheby’s, meanwhile, established a new record for a Rembrandt drawing when Young Lion Resting (sold by the collector Thomas Kaplan to benefit the wildlife charity Panthera) made $17.8m. To round off the week, Sotheby’s announced that another star lot, an Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina, had been acquired by the Italian state for $14.9m in a private transaction before the sale.
So perhaps we’ll hear less talk now of Old Masters being ‘out of fashion’. It was never true. If it were, museums such as the Louvre and London’s National Gallery would hardly be spending vast sums enlarging their entrances to cope with the crowds. Nor is it a coincidence, I suspect, that such strong prices came as financial markets were buffeted by a weakening dollar, collapsing crypto and a renewed flight to safe havens such as gold. The greatest art of the past is an enduring part of human culture, and people will always want to see it, understand it and, when they can, own it. Civilisational assets tend, by their nature, to be durable financial ones too.
That said, I still see examples of the Old Masters world not having confidence in itself. The latest is the National Gallery, which has decided to ask a citizens’ jury to ‘help shape its future’. The jury is 50 people chosen at random by a charity called Involve, and on the surface this seems like an interesting idea. The museum world is prone to speaking to itself and can easily lose touch with the people it’s supposed to serve. A citizens’ jury might deliver useful outside perspective.
Yet updates on the jury’s work so far suggest it is really just a way for the National Gallery to win points for ‘engagement’. Instead of leaving the jurors to get on with it and come up with their own radical ideas, it appears the gallery is interested in a more managed consultation.
An advisory group of 17 art-world grandees has been appointed to help guide proceedings, and the jurors receive extensive briefings to ‘deepen their understanding’ of how the gallery works. After three sessions so far (of five), the topics discussed include ‘what is the social value of art?’ I searched in vain for something challenging, such as ‘how could the National Gallery better share its collection across the nation?’
I suspect there will be pages of warm, vague words when the project ends, and congratulatory pats on the back for ‘inclusivity’. The price for all this? £250,000. And that, alas, is not a joke.
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In a new video message, the former president — looking effortlessly fly in a bomber jacket — invites the public to the South Side of Chicago as the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center prepares to open in June.
Former President Barack Obama delivered a hopeful message about the future this weekend — and he did it with a little extra style.
In a video shared by the Obama Foundation on Saturday (Mar. 7), Obama appeared on Chicago’s South Side wearing a sleek bomber jacket while announcing the official opening timeline for the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center.
“It is easy to look around right now and feel like the challenges we face are simply too big,” Obama said in the video. “But hope is not about ignoring the hard stuff. It is that thing inside us that insists something better awaits if we are willing to work for it.”
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The announcement revealed that the Obama Presidential Center will be dedicated on June 18, with the full campus opening to the public the following day on June 19.
The timing is notable: the public opening coincides with Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
Located on the South Side of Chicago, where Obama first built his career as a community organizer, the sprawling campus is designed to be more than a traditional presidential library. According to the Obama Foundation, the site will include a world-class museum, a new branch of the Chicago Public Library, public art installations, green spaces and recreational areas, including a basketball court.
Obama said the center is meant to serve as a place for inspiration and civic imagination — particularly for young people.
“This is a place where a child from next door or across the globe can sit behind the Resolute Desk and imagine how they could help create a better world,” he said.
While presidential libraries often function as historical archives or monuments, Obama framed the center differently — as a living hub for community engagement and civic participation.
“This is not a monument to the past,” he said. “It is a living destination for people who refuse to accept the status quo.”
The announcement marks a major milestone for a project that has been years in the making and closely watched by Chicago residents, civic leaders and supporters around the world.
If the energy of Obama’s message is any indication, the center is intended to be both a reflection of his legacy and a platform for the next generation of changemakers — all rooted in the South Side community that helped shape his journey.

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Allen Family Capital completed the acquisition on Thursday (Mar. 5), less than a year after Starz became an independent company.
Media mogul Byron Allen is making another massive splash.
The investment arm of Allen, Allen Family Capital, has acquired a 10.7 percent stake in Starz Entertainment for $25 million. The deal was a private transaction with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s Liberty 77 Capital.
On Thursday (Mar. 5), AFC announced it acquired more than 1.8 million common shares of Starz at a purchase price of $13.86 per common share.
Starz, which is home to shows like “P-Valley” and 50 Cent’s “Power” universe, was previously under Lionsgate. Last May, the company split from Starz, allowing the premium cable network and streaming business to trade separately.
Allen acquired the stake in Starz “for investment purposes and intends to review such investment on a continuing basis. As such, Allen may, depending on Starz’s performance and other market conditions, increase or decrease the investment position,” Allen Family Capital said in its announcement.
“Allen may, from time to time, make additional acquisitions of Common Shares or other securities of Starz either in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, including transactions directly with Starz,” Allen Family Capital said. Such decisions will be based on its “evaluation of Starz’s business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations, the market for the Common Shares or other securities, other opportunities available to Allen, general economic conditions, stock market conditions and other factors.”
The move is the latest investment in television for Allen, who put up some of his local TV stations up for sale, with Gray Media acquiring a few of them. In the wake of Stephen Colbert‘s exit from CBS late-night, Allen is looking to add his “Comics Unleashed” series to air at 12:30 a.m., and then, hopefully, at 11:30 p.m.
Allen Media Group, which Allen founded in 1993, owns and/or operates 27 ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 different U.S. markets and features 10 television networks that serve nearly 300 million subscribers, including the Weather Channel, theGrio and HBCU Go.

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The 400-year-old Golestan Palace reportedly sustained damage from a nearby missile blast
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.
As the war against Iran instigated last week by Israel and the United States continues to spread through the Middle East, we explore how it affects tourism in the Persian Gulf, of which art and culture more generally have been a cornerstone. One of The Art Newspaper’s Middle East correspondents, Melissa Gronlund, joins Ben Luke to discuss the latest news.
The 82nd biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opens this weekend and our editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, and Elena Goukassian, our senior editor of museums and heritage, tell us what they thought of it.
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And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) by Rembrandt. Researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have demonstrated that the painting, which had previously been documented as a copy of a lost original, is in fact an authentic work by the Dutch master. We speak to Jonathan Bikker, the Rijksmuseum’s curator of 17th-century Dutch paintings, who was part of the team that secured the attribution to Rembrandt. The picture is now on view to the public at the Rijksmuseum.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633)
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Plus, an analysis of our museum visitor figures survey and a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
We speak to the artist behind the extraordinary Wheatfield work and visit two new shows in the Netherlands. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Ben Luke hears about ‘Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art’ at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C, discusses the cultural impact of a brutal crackdown in Iran and takes a look at a landmark 1958 installation by Louise Nevelson

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During the GLAAD awards, Don Lemon celebrates Kristi Noem’s firing and speaks out after Paramount announces it’s buying Warner Bros.
After Paramount Global acquired Warner Bros. Discovery through its parent company Skydance Media in a landmark $110 billion deal, Don Lemon is sharing his thoughts.
On Thursday, March 5, while on the red carpet for the 37th annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, the 60-year-old veteran journalist said the new deal was “not good for journalism at all.”
“It appears that [Paramount is] trying to take an organization, especially CBS News, that’s built on journalism and move it in a certain direction politically, and that’s not what journalism is about,” he told USA Today. “Journalism is about the truth, and the truth has no right or no left, it’s just what is.”
He added that the deal, which would mean Paramount Skydance now owns his former employer, CNN, was not his “favorite,” and said he worries about what it means for journalism when a major mainstream news platform is controlled by a single corporate entity.
“It’s not good for journalism at all,” he continued. “My advice to them would be, let the journalists be journalists. Take your hands off of the newsroom.”
The merger, announced and signed on Feb. 27, combines Paramount’s existing holdings — including CBS, Paramount Pictures, and Paramount+ — with Warner Bros. Discovery’s portfolio, which includes CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. film studios and Discovery’s cable networks.
Speaking further, Lemon added that all these major mergers and the billionaires they’re making richer aren’t going to “save democracy.”
“The journalists will save our democracy,” he added. “It’s not going to be money, it’s not going to be moving people to the right politically. That’s not going to help anything; that’s only going to make America worse.”
While on stage during the awards show, Lemon also addressed the firing of the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after his high-profile arrest in January while covering an ICE protest inside a church in Minneapolis.
“I’m not going to say much, I’m not going to go off script much. I’m just going to say two words, and you guys can cheer if you want. Kristi Noem,” Lemon said, drawing chants and applause from the audience.
“Karma is a you know what,” he added. “Let’s hope that it gets more people than just her.”
The 37th annual GLAAD Awards will air on Hulu on Saturday, March 21, 2026.
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“We were built for moments like these,” the Maryland governor tells theGrio, as advocates fret about modern-day threats to equal access to the ballot.
As Rev. Jesse Jackson is laid to rest in Chicago and thousands gather in Alabama this weekend to commemorate the anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, also known as Bloody Sunday, Governor Wes Moore is holding on to optimism, even as the state of civil rights for Black Americans is seeing rollbacks or points of contention.
“I think that they are serving as motivation as to why we can’t stop fighting,” Moore told theGrio during a recent phone interview a day before he traveled to Chicago to pay tribute to Rev. Jackson at his funeral service, which summoned three living United States presidents (Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden), a former U.S. vice president (Kamala Harris), and Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton).
As America’s only Black governor and only the third elected in U.S. history, Moore said of Jackson, “I know that my path is not possible without him.”
“There are many shoulders that I know I can see higher because I’m standing on their shoulders…amongst the broadest is Reverend Jesse Jackson,” the Maryland governor said of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder and 1984 and 1988 presidential candidate.
Rev. Jackson, he said, believed America politically needed to be held to a “higher height.” It was something “revolutionary,” Moore explained. “It was something that was unusual, but so many campaigns that came after his, to include mine…started to become real because the people of this country started to imagine that they could be real.”
Moore himself remains a rumored contender for the presidency in 2028, though he consistently insists, “I’m not running.” Instead, the governor is focused on re-election this November.
This weekend, Moore will join several leaders in Selma for the annual festivities honoring Bloody Sunday, where on March 7, 1965, civil rights leaders John Lewis, Hosea Williams, and hundreds of other demonstrators were brutally beaten by police officers as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to protest the injustices Black Americans faced in not being able to exercise their right to vote.
“They didn’t do it because they thought it would be an easy victory. They did it because it was just,” said Moore, who, in addition to the commemorative walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, will deliver the keynote address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Annual Jubilee on Saturday.
While the brutality of that historical day ultimately led to the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act later that year, today, many are grappling with modern-day actions that advocates and leaders say will turn back the clock on equal access to voting rights.
Congress is currently contemplating the Republican-led SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID and documentation of citizenship in order to vote. Experts and critics say that, if passed, the legislation would suppress access to the ballot for millions of Black Americans, and others, including working and low-income people and married women who change their last names, who do not have documents like passports or birth certificates, or are too financially burdened to obtain one.
Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a case that could result in the striking down of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, thereby completely gutting the landmark law. And most recently, President Donald Trump ordered his FBI to seize the 2020 election ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, in an apparent attempt to bolster his conspiracy lies that the year’s presidential election was rigged against him.
Given the perceived assaults on voting rights, it could feel like the progress achieved more than 60 years ago was all for naught. However, Governor Moore tells theGrio that now is the time to draw from the strength and fearlessness of the 1960s freedom fighters.
“We were built for moments like these,” he said. “The history of this country has never been even, and the promise of this country has never been promised. It takes fighters, and it took people who were willing to stand on principle, stand on values, and stand on strength to be able to ensure that we can actually one day be the country that we hoped to be.”
Moore rebuked the Trump administration for its actions that many see as undermining the civil rights infrastructure that so many organized, protested, and died to assemble.
“The administration is trying to remind us about how tough they are. I think that people have to remind the administration about how tough we are,” he told theGrio. “We know that the assault is real. It’s this creative and aggressive assault…we know what it looks like, because we’ve seen it before.”
Drawing on the grit and fearlessness of leaders like Rev. Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and countless others, the Maryland governor said, “Freedoms aren’t things that are just given to you. They’re treasures that, if you’re lucky, you were born into them, but then while you’re here, it’s your collective responsibility to protect them for whoever is coming next.”
He added, “We cannot be lazy or blindsided when it comes to our protection of a lot of basic freedoms that, in many cases, we take for granted.”

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The rapper, born on the city’s west side, looks to add to a revitalized area of the city which just added a mixed-use development with apartments, townhomes, carriage homes, condos and more.
Consider Tee Grizzley among the latest to invest back into their communities.
The rapper announced he would invest in a $12 million multi-use housing development in Detroit‘s Brush Park neighborhood. The development, which will include 37 apartments, will total about 30,000 square feet and designate 20 percent of the homes as affordable housing.
The proposed development, if approved, could see construction beginning this summer.
“Detroit raised me — I’m a west side kid, and I’m passionate about bringing mixed-income housing to my city,” Tee Grizzley said in a statement. “The 205 Watson project is about building safe, quality housing for everybody; that respects longtime residents and welcomes new neighbors — building opportunity without pushing people out.”
According to the Detroit News, the multi-use development would be called Wallace Estates and was the winning bid in a City of Detroit request for proposals to use the site at 205 Watson St.
“It’s an infill site that’s bringing high-quality housing, both for affordable and market-rate renters,” Nevan Shokar, principal of Shokar Group and the day-to-day development lead, said. “And I think it complements the neighborhood nicely with the brick aesthetic, as well as the brass inlays in the windows.”
Brush Park has seen massive revitalization in recent years, capped by the completion of City Modern, a mixed-use development featuring apartments, townhomes, carriage homes, condominiums, common spaces, and 31,000 square feet of retail space.
Regarding the units in the development, Shokar believes the majority will be studio and one-bedroom apartments.
“The highest demand that you have within this neighborhood and across the city as a whole, is to produce more studio and one-bedroom units,” Shokar said. “The two-bedroom units sometimes and larger sometimes have a hard time filling up, leasing up within buildings, and that’s why you typically see units generally smaller in size.”
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“Y’all, this is not a bad thing. I’m going to miss everyone, but I need to go find a beach,” producer Shawna Thomas says of her CBS News exit.
On the heels of Gayle King inking her new contract with CBS, ending months of speculation, “CBS Mornings” producer Shawna Thomas is bowing out. This week, the CBS News executive producer announced that she will be leaving the show in a memo to her colleagues. 
This isn’t THE GREAT GOODBYE NOTE,” Thomas wrote, per The Wrap.  “But you should know I’ve been thinking about this for a while and, frankly, I’m tired y’all.” 
She continued: “Today is not my last day at CBS Mornings, but it begins a countdown to my alarm going off a little bit later […] For five years, I’ve tried to make this show something she and everybody on this team want to be a part of. Want to watch. Want to learn from. And in return, this team has made me more thoughtful, empathetic, and expanded my personal definition of storytelling. I’ve had the privilege of helping to make 10 (now 12!) hours of television each week that goes out free to people everywhere.  I’ve taken that responsibility of trying to inform, educate, entertain, and make people care about the world around them very seriously, and I know the people here do, too.”
Thomas’ departure reflects the wave of changes at CBS News since Bari Weiss’ appointment as Editor-in-Chief, and signals at the larger wave of Black women voluntarily (but most times involuntarily) being pushed out of traditional media. However, for the former CBS producer her upcoming departure is not a bad thing. 
“Y’all this is not a bad thing. I’m going to miss everyone but I need to go find a beach. Stat,” she captioned an Instagram post thanking people for the outpouring of love in light of the news. 
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Just as Thomas is ready to lean into the power of rest, Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of The Highland Project and Meet Me at The Highland—two platforms rooted in the belief that rest is revolutionary —emphasized the power behind the former producer’s decision to step back. 
“There is power in a Black woman saying ‘I’m tired’ and then making a different choice,” Wyatt told theGrio. “For too long we’ve been expected to lead at the speed of urgency, without space to pause or breathe. But rest is not weakness. It is power. Stillness is not the opposite of leadership. It is what sustains it.”
“That belief is the foundation of Meet Me at The Highland Presents: The Legacy Studio, where slowing down is not a luxury. It is the work,” she continued. 
So while Thomas will reportedly be stepping away from the broadcast at the end of this month, she will hopefully be stepping into a season rooted in rest, alignment and some time in the sun.
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Stefon Diggs‘ mother, Stephanie Diggs, was excited to post about attending Cardi B’s concert—despite reports the rapper broke up with her son.
Megan Thee Stallion wasn’t the only special guest at Cardi’s Little Miss Drama Tour stop in Houston. On Wednesday, March 4, Stephanie Diggs had an NFL mom’s night out with DeAndre Hopkins’ mother, Sabrina Greenlee, attending Cardi’s sold out show at the Toyota Center.
Taking notes from Cardi’s schoolgirl theme, Diggs wore matching red-plaid hat, white collar shirt, and skirt combo while posing alongside Sabrina—who was also on theme for the night out. Alongside the photo dump she posted on Instagram, Stephanie wrote, “Ready to party.”
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Sabrina shared the same few flicks from inside the venue, writing on her own Instagram post, “Cardi B Little Miss Drama Tour China Doll & British Star Class in Session.”
Stephanie excitedly attending Cardi’s concert comes amid speculation that Cardi and Stefon ended their relationship a few days before the Super Bowl. Neither Cardi nor Diggs—who was released from the New England Patriots on March 4—have spoken out about the status of their relationship, but the rapper has thrown a few subs onstage.
As BOSSIP previously reported, during her tour stop in San Francisco on Feb. 27, the Bronx native seemingly sent a message to the New England Patriots player, insinuating that he didn’t respect her during their relationship.
“It’s called the principle. You can’t be out here playing with a b***h like me. There’s n****s out here praying for a b**h like me. You hear me?” she declared onstage, as seen in a video shared online. “I’m too sexy to be lonely and too grown to be played with.”
The rapper continued, “You ain’t never had a bad b****h like this, n****. Never in your mother****in’ life! None of them b****es ain’t f**in’ with me!”
However, after that rant went viral, Cardi took to X to set the record straight, claiming the intros she gives onstage don’t necessarily have a connection to her personal life.
“Dear blogs, when I perform a song I always introduce the song with a lil razzle dazzle,” Cardi wrote in a post on March 2. “Not everything is a shot or personal. I’m actually repeating lyrics from the songs…Relax.”
Still, reports claim Cardi broke things off with Diggs “a few days” before his team, the New England Patriots, were defeated by the Seattle Seahawks in the 2026 Super Bowl. The Grammy winner reportedly broke up with the athlete because he had allegedly “betrayed her so many times,” per Us Weekly.
“Her friends have been trying to show her that he is not right for her and that she deserved better,” a source told the mag last month. They added that Cardi is now “single and putting herself out there again. She feels free.”
Now that Diggs’ mother is cozying up to Cardi, though, it seems like their split might not be as contentious as fans previously thought.
The post He Broke, I’m Up: Stefon Diggs’ Mom Attends Cardi B Concert Despite Reports The Rapper Dumped Her Son appeared first on Bossip.
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