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{blackbabes} Serena withdraws in Stanford with injury

 

STANFORD, Calif. - World No. 1 Serena Williams has withdrawn from the upcoming Bank of the West Classic because of an elbow injury she says must get "back to 100 per cent."

The tournament announced her withdrawal Friday. It runs Aug. 3-9 at Stanford University.

Williams expressed her disappointment and noted, "The tournament is one of my favourites and the fans have always been so generous and supportive of me."

Williams recently won her sixth Wimbledon championship, 21st Grand Slam singles title overall and fourth consecutive major event — the "Serena Slam" — and she also won four Slam events in a row in 2002-03. She will now look to chase a fifth straight at the U.S. Open in August.

Williams is currently scheduled to play at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, which starts next week.

Fifth-ranked Caroline Wozniacki will make her Bank of the West Classic debut, and as the top seed.

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{blackbabes} Lianne La Havas experiments with her new album, 'Blood'

 

NEW YORK (AP) — It's hard to describe Lianne La Havas' music in a quick soundbite, and that's by design.

The British singer has a unique sound that transcends genres. Her music is not quite R&B, folk music or jazz, but a melding of all three. It's cool, yet simmering with passion, reserved at times, but bombastic and funky at others.

"I just kind of wanted to mix all the genres and mix all the things that I like together," La Havas said. "Everything comes from wanting to merge many styles together."

The singer-songwriter-guitarist is set to release her second album, "Blood," on Friday. Her sultry 2012 debut, "Is Your Love Big Enough," was a critical success; among its accolades was being crowned iTunes album of the year in the United Kingdom. It also won her high-profile fans, including Prince, who has raved about her. He featured her on his 2014 album, "Art Official Age," and enlisted her for performances, including on "Saturday Night Live."

Her new album comes with high expectations. For "Blood," La Havas pushed herself to sample new styles of writing.

"I am a little bit different now so, I think you will probably hear that in the music. There's lots of change," La Havas said.

The 25-year-old created "Blood" while on her first trip to Jamaica with her mother. La Havas, of Jamaican and Greek ancestry, said, "It just felt strangely appropriate to just be making music there."

La Havas said unlike her first album, she worked with many producers, including reggae and dancehall star Stephen McGregor (also known as Di Genius), to create songs like her booming, beat-driven single "Unstoppable."

"I was able to kind of just do what I wanted, and so there was no kind of limitations with the ideas and the songwriting," La Havas said.

La Havas will spend August touring Europe and then returns to the United States for a tour in the fall. She calls the spread of her music in the United States phenomenal.

"It's just amazing that anyone over here has heard the music and likes it," La Havas said. "To know that it has traveled is really exciting."

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{blackbabes} Mariah Carey dumps longtime agents

 

Mariah Carey has changed her management team once again.

The singer on Wednesday dumped longtime agents at CAA headed by Rob Light for UTA's music group headed by Light's protégé, Jbeau Lewis.

Lewis, who's repped acts including Katy Perry and Ariana Grande, had worked for CAA for 11 years before decamping in 2014 to head UTA's music division.

Carey is in the middle of a comeback after rejoining Sony/Epic Records and record producer LA Reid in March.

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{blackbabes} Serena says plenty of room to improve at US Open

 

Washington (AFP) - Top-ranked Serena Williams, coming off her fourth consecutive Grand Slam triumph at Wimbledon, said Thursday she has plenty of room to improve before chasing more history at the US Open.

Speaking on a teleconference to promote her first hardcourt tuneup event for the Flushing Meadows fortnight, the 33-year-old American praised her mental game but added that her best is yet to come.

"I'm playing some of my best mental tennis. My actual tennis I think I could play a lot better," Williams said. "That's really exciting going into 2016."

Before Williams takes a serious look at next year, she will focus on the next few weeks at the year's final Grand Slam event, where she could become only the fourth woman to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam and match Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 women's Grand Slam singles crowns.

"I'm not thinking about it much," Williams said of the history within her reach, instead taking pride in what she has already done -- win four Slams in a row for the second time in her career, the first such run concluded by a 2003 Australian Open victory.

"I was really excited to achieve that Serena Slam," Williams said. "It was really important for me to do that. Just holding all four trophies at the same time, two times in one career, I'm not sure how many times that has been done. That really means a lot."

Williams, who was forced out of the Swedish Open with a right elbow injury earlier this month, says she and her game are fine now.

"I feel okay," Williams said. "I always have a little nerves and a little trepidation.

"I feel okay about my game. I'm always looking to improve. I'm never too comfortable. That's when I think you are susceptible to losing."

Williams will return to hardcourts at the WTA Rogers Cup in Toronto in two weeks. Williams won the Canadian crown in 2011 and 2013, the past two times it was staged in Toronto.

"I haven't played on the hardcourt in a while," Williams said. "It will be a good opportunity to get some matches under me before the US Open."

Asked if her success becomes more gratifying as she gets older, the woman who won her first Slam crown at age 17 at the 1999 US Open said it feels that way at any age.

"I've definitely gotten a little better," she said. "Is it more gratifying? I feel like it's gratifying at whatever age, 20, 18, 16, 6 or 80 or 20.

"I really don't feel I act my age."

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{blackbabes} Williams rolls into Toronto with Grand Slam close

 

TORONTO — Back to being the most dominant women's tennis player in the world, Serena Williams holds all four Grand Slam trophies at the same time, the second "Serena Slam" of her career.

Yet she has one more career achievement ahead of her. After already winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2015, Williams is another U.S. Open title away from being just the fourth woman to earn a calendar-year Grand Slam.

Before she gets to Flushing Meadows, though, Williams has a hard-court tune-up at the Rogers Cup in Toronto starting Aug. 10.

"This will be a good opportunity for me to get some matches under hard court and try to go forward with just winning some matches there and getting ready for the U.S. Open, which I'm defending that title, so hopefully I'll be able to do that," Williams said on a conference call Thursday.

Williams won the Rogers Cup each of the past two times it was held in Toronto, in 2013 and 2011, and called it one of her favourite places to play.

Now 33, Williams is again ranked No. 1 and is playing some of the best tennis of her life. But according to her, her game is just "OK."

"I'm just playing some of my best mental tennis," Williams said. "But I feel like my actual tennis I could play a lot better."

Her actual tennis appears to be just fine. Williams lost only two sets in winning Wimbledon and is primed to capture her seventh U.S. Open.

Trying not to be overconfident, she said being too comfortable makes players more "susceptible to losing." Along the same lines, Williams is attempting not to think about the history she's approaching.

Her focus was first on winning all four Grand Slams in a row, the so-called "Serena Slam" that she also completed in 2002-03.

"Once I felt like I could win four in a row, I felt like I would be fine," Williams said. "Just holding all four trophies at the same time, two times in one career, I'm not sure that's been done so often. For me, that is really pretty awesome."

Williams became the fifth woman to do that, joining Maureen Connolly Brinker, Margaret Court, Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. The calendar-year Grand Slam is even rarer, completed by Connolly Brinker in 1953, Court in 1970 and Graf in 1988.

At the Rogers Cup, Williams is part of a field that includes the other top 25 players in the world, including sister Venus and also Canada's Eugenie Bouchard, who's 26th. There's so much depth that Williams knows she can't underestimate any opponent.

"It's not easy," she said. "You've got to enjoy the challenge and get ready for it. I'm up for it, and I'm usually excited to see what happens."

With 21 Grand Slam titles, she's one shy of Graf's Open Era record and three short of Court's all-time mark. At Wimbledon, Williams became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam, and she's showing no signs of slowing down.

"I love to be able to do the best that I can and win," Williams said. "Whether I'm 20 or 18 or 6 or 30 or 80, for me it's going to be all the same. I feel like I appreciate it more, but I really don't feel and act my age, so I'm feeling pretty good."

Going into the summer season, Williams is nervous as always but focused. She thinks the best thing she's got going is feeling like there's nothing to lose.

"I just have to go there and maintain and do the best that I can do," Williams said. "That's a unique position to be in, and I'm really happy to be in that position."

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{blackbabes} Lupita Nyong’o Sets New York Stage Debut In Public Theater’s ‘Eclipsed’

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The Oscar winning actress (12 Years A Slave) will play "The Girl" in the NYC premiere of Danai Gurira's drama, which "looks at the terrible conflicts in post-colonial Africa with an eye that is both incisive and deeply compassionate," according to a statement from Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis. "A feminist reading of the Liberian Civil War, a war that was ended by women, Eclipsed is both heart-breaking and profoundly life-affirming. We are delighted to welcome the extraordinary Lupita Nyong'o to The Public in this vitally important play."

Nyong'o will next be seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as the motion capture character "Maz Kanata." She just wrapped production in Uganda on Mira Nair's The Queen of Katwe opposite David Oyelowo and lends her voice to Jon Favreau's upcoming Jungle Book as "Raksha," set for release next April.

Zimbabwean-American playwright and actress Gurira is co-author of The Convert and In the Continuum and plays Michonne on AMC's The Walking Dead). She's at work on a pilot for HBO.

Eclipsed will be staged by Liesl Tommy (Kid Victory, Appropriate and the Public's The Good Negro), associate director of Berkeley Rep and a Sundance artist trustee. She staged the drama's 2009 world premiere at Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theater, and it was subsequently presented at the Yale Reportory Theater. Eclipsed will begin previews at the Public on September 29 and run through November 8, with an official press opening on October 14.

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{blackbabes} Viola Davis on Going Hungry as a Child: The School Lunch Was Often 'The Only Meal I Had'

 
Viola Davis knows what it's like to grow up hungry.

"Most of the time, the school lunch was the only meal I had," the
How to Get Away with Murder star, 49, says in the August issue of AARP The Magazine's August/September issue. "And I would befriend kids whose mothers cooked three meals a day and go to their homes when I could."

Growing up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, as the second youngest of six children, Davis admits she was caught shoplifting at the age of 9.

"The store owner screamed at me to get out, looking at me like I was nothing, and the shame of that forced me to stop," she says.


Often unable to even pay bus fare, Davis says her family was ridiculed because of their poverty: "People would throw things out of cars and call us the N-word. It was constant."

But now that she's found professional success and happiness with her
husband Julius Tennon and daughter Genesis, Davis says she is extremely grateful for what she has today.

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"When you grow up poor, you dream of just having a home, and a bed that's clean – that's a sanctuary," she says. "Having a really great husband, a child who's healthy and happy and brings me joy – all of that has been my dream."

And Davis is now paying her good fortune forward as the spokesperson for the Hunger Is campaign.

"I've been so focused on my child, my husband and my career that I never thought of the last step, which is giving back," says Davis, who says that her upcoming 50th birthday in August is a milestone that has made her reflect on the person she's become. "[It's] making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving. I'm able to almost accept the old me."

AARP The Magazine's August/September issue hits homes on Aug. 1.


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{blackbabes} 'Game Of Thrones' Star Nathalie Emmanuel -- Fan Drops $55k at Nightclub ... but Fails to Impress

 
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"Game Of Thrones" has a fan base as big as a White Walker army, and one of those fans just threw away a ton of dough at a failed attempt to impress Khaleesi's right hand girl, Nathalie Emmanuel.

Nathalie, who plays Missandei, was clubbing it up with her gal pals at London hotspot China White last Saturday ... when a wealthy mega fan at the club dropped $55k to party with her, with the help of 12 bottles of Dom and a 6 liter bottle of Belvedere, which he sent to her table.

The mid-40s fanboy also commissioned a personalized show in which he controlled club lights and a CO2/confetti cannon.

Problem is, Nathalie wasn't impressed and sent the booze back.

A true fan would have known, such tactics would have only worked on Cersei Lannister. 

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{blackbabes} Danai Gurira wants to give ‘The Walking Dead’ fans the ultimate walker experience

 

Danai Gurira in 'The Walking Dead'

Fans of "The Walking Dead" have the opportunity to experience a once-in-a-lifetime experience with Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne. All they have to do for a chance is donate to a worthy cause.

Gurira is hosting a charity raffle where a fan will win a trip for two to the "Walking Dead" Season 6 premiere at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Not only is flight and hotel covered in the prize, but Gurira will take the lucky fans backstage at the event.

As if that weren't enough, the winner also gets a trip for two to Atlanta, Ga. to visit the show's set. While there the fans will have lunch with Gurira, go through a weapons training session — which includes crossbow lessons — and get made up like a zombie for photos. Gurira will also prepare them for an actual zombie apocalypse by throwing in a "go bag" loaded with survival gear for the winner.

To enter, fans need to donate a minimum of $10 to Gurira's Crowd Rise fundraiser, which is collecting money to support the Almasi Arts Alliance. The goal of the group, which Gurira co-founded, is to enrich the dramatic arts industry in Zimbabwe.

Even if you don't win the raffle, there are still opportunities for prizes. There are a variety of donation levels that come with different perks, including signed photos, shirts and even videos from Gurira.

The raffle ends Sept. 24.

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{blackbabes} Rapper Azealia Banks denounces 'terrible' Australia crowds

 
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Outspoken New York rapper Azealia Banks has declared herself fed up with playing in Australia, condemning the audiences as belligerent.

Her denunciation of the country came after her feud with white Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, whom Banks accused of cultural exploitation by affecting an African American accent.

Banks performed Saturday at Splendour in the Grass, an annual festival in the Australian winter held in the eastern beach town of Byron Bay.

Banks did not take it lightly when an Australian radio host, Paul "Browny" Brown, sarcastically congratulated her for completing a full performance in the country.

In 2013, she walked off stage at a Melbourne festival when she was hit by a can of beer.

"You guys are terrible crowds to play for. You're violent and belligerent and I simply will not put my safety at risk," Banks wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

"I would've walked off stage had someone thrown something," she wrote. "Plus you guys are too far away and honestly, the show guarantees are never really worth the trip."

Banks has enjoyed critical acclaim for tracks such as the racially and sexually charged "212" but has been known in popular media more for her blunt views.

Iggy Azalea -- mocked by Banks as "Igloo Australia" -- has steered clear of the latest episode. Earlier this year Azalea said she was taking time away from Twitter following a number of heated exchanges.

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{blackbabes} Mariah Carey to receive star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

 

Mariah Carey will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next week.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that Carey will get the 2,556th star on Aug. 5. Guest speakers will include directors Lee Daniels and Brett Ratner, as well as Epic Records CEO and longtime Carey collaborator L.A. Reid.

Carey is one of the most successful acts in music. She has 18 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold millions of albums and won a number of awards, including five Grammys.

She recently launched a residency in Las Vegas where she performs her No. 1 hits, including "Vision of Love," "Hero" and "We Belong Together."

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{blackbabes} Taraji P. Henson Debuts Beyoncé-Like Blond Curls: “Felt Like a Change… Again!”

 
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Taraji P. Henson's hair maxim: Lion's Lyons' mane!

After a brief stint with purple and gray tresses, the Empire star is opting for another drastic hair color swap. And this time, the 44-year-old is embracing a bright blond hue with darker roots, using her hair's enviable natural volume to showcase the flirty new color combo.

"Felt like a change… AGAIN," Taraji captioned her Instagram snapshot this morning her gorgeous Beyoncé-esque hairdo.

Big change indeed, and suffice to say, we bet Taraji's onscreen alter ego, Cookie Lyon, would approve of the voluminous lioness makeover. From her out-to-thee lashes to her perfectly arched brows and sexy gold chocker, the Emmy-nominated star looks every bit as fierce as her Empire character.

Back on set filming season two of her hit Fox show, the Empire star has been posting quite a few snaps to Instagram between takes. She's offered up several sneak peeks of Cookie's hair and makeup looks for the season, as well as a few candids with her co-stars. And speaking of her fellow stars, we're more excited than ever (if that was even possible?) for the upcoming season now that Ludacris, Marisa Tomei, Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitiz and more stars are all set to make guest appearances. Can it just be Sept. 23 already?

As for Taraji's new do, we could totally see Cookie rocking it on season two. It's ferocious, untamed and wildly sexy, ergo perfect for her character.

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{blackbabes} Mariah Carey -- My Billionaire BF Spent $500K to Make My Chest Sparkle

 

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Mariah Carey's boyfriend James Packer knows the way to her heart is putting half a mil worth of rocks on her chest.

Packer gave Mariah the hookup Wednesday night -- it's an 18 karat yellow heart-shaped diamond. We're told he gave to her right before she went on stage for her Vegas show at Caesars Palace -- which explains the shout out she gave him.

Carey thanked JP for "a new heart" ... right before she sang "Hero" that night.

Guess James is cool with people not looking Mariah in the eyes when they talk to her, 'cause ... damn!

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{blackbabes} Janet Jackson drops music video for 'No Sleeep' featuring J. Cole

{blackbabes} ‘American Horror Story: Hotel': Naomi Campbell will face off with Lady Gaga

 
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"American Horror Story"
is returning in the fall with its fifth season, subtitled "Hotel." If you were a fan of Seasons 1 and 2, "Hotel" might be right up your alley, since it returns the focus to being on a place rather than a group of people.

Naomi Campbell is the latest victim to join the FX series. TVLine reports she'll go "toe-to-toe" with Lady Gaga as a fashion editor who "pays the ultimate price for her critiques." Campbell reportedly also will have scenes with Angela Bassett during her multi-episode arc.

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{blackbabes} Mariah Carey Credits Boyfriend James Packer for Giving Her a ''New Heart,'' Announces First-Ever Israel Concert

 
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Aw, Mariah Carey and James Packer are too cute.

It might be "too soon" for these two to entertain the idea of walking down the aisle together, but that doesn't mean they're going to shy away from expressing their love for one another.

Carey gave a sweet shout-out to her man and even dedicated her song "Hero" to her boyfriend during her "#1 to Infinity" Las Vegas show at Caesars Palace on Wednesday. Before the singer launched into the romantic and very popular '90s ballad, she told the crowd, "I got a new heart tonight. James is in the house. Thank you for my heart. I dedicate this next song to you."

She also dedicated the song to her fans and everyone who has told her that song got them through tough times in their life.

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The heartwarming gesture comes at the same time as Mariah announcing that she'll have a concert in Israel for the first time ever!

Just weeks after her June visit, the singer revealed an August 18 performance in the Rishon Lezion Live Park Amphitheater. "Shalom Israel, I will be coming to see you live on August 18, so come to see me! Shalom," Carey said in a recording shown at a Tel Aviv press conference.

Packer took his ladylove to the Holy Land last month, which proved to be a very important trip for the both of them.

"They are very happy together. It was important to James that he took Mariah to the Western Wall for the first time. She has been all over the world but never to Israel," an insider told E! News at the time.

"They are incredibly happy and it was a very romantic moment for the two of them. Her children are also there and you can tell by the way he was looking at her that this relationship is meaningful and that their relationship is going to the next level."

The source continued, "There is only one place at the Western Wall where men and woman can stand together and it was meaningful for him to take her there so that they could share this very intimate moment as a couple."

A second insider close to the twosome added, "It was more a spiritual journey then anything. He is aware Carey has the world at her fingertips but he likes to find things that she has never experienced."

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{blackbabes} Photo: Beyoncé runs out of her New York recording studio on Wednesday.

{blackbabes} Rihanna Channels Marilyn Monroe in Pink Gloves & Pearls For Her New RiRi Fragrance—See the First Ad!

 
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Seems like diamonds pearls are RiRi's best friend—at least in her new perfume ad!

Rihanna took to Twitter on July 21 with the first ad for her latest fragrance, RiRi by Rihanna, and it's, well, RiRi like we've never seen her before. The singer stuns in the campaign image (naturally), looking almost doll-like with insanely smooth waves, sky-high lashes and petal pink lips.

"Ladies!!! It's about that time!!! Brand new fragrance coming.... "RiRi" #ThisisRiRi," the star wrote alongside the perfume peek. This is, by the way, her fifth fragrance, following Reb'l Fleur, Rebelle, Nude and Rogue.

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We also got a distinct Gentlemen Prefer Blondes vibe: From her voluminous pink gloves to the swath of pearls on her wrist, Rihanna seemingly reimagines the scene that made Marilyn Monroe an icon.

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And when it comes to RiRi in pink, we can't forget, of course, her head-turning Giambattista Valli couture confection (we still think those tiers look deliciously cupcake-like), which she wore to the 2015 Grammys.

Pink may just be her power color, y'all.

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{blackbabes} Photo: Beyoncé goes nude — in color, that is — in New York on Tuesday.

{blackbabes} Misty Copeland on Growing Up an African-American Ballerina: 'I Felt Like I Didn't Belong'

 
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There's no stopping this ballerina!

Misty Copeland, who was just named the first black female principal ballerina in the American Ballet Theater, spoke about her struggle to find success at the Soledad O'Brien and Brad Raymond Starfish Foundation's 2015 PowHERful Summit in New York City on Saturday.

"I was the only black woman in a company of 80 plus dancers for a decade. I felt like I didn't belong," Copeland, 32, said, according to
a video of the summit. "I heard I wasn't right for the company. I wasn't right for ballet. My skin was too dark. I was too muscular. My bust was too big."

Copeland, who grew up in Los Angeles, acknowledges that it was her single mother who empowered her with the values and tools that she possesses to this day.


"Watching my mother fight and sacrifice to give us as much as she could definitely, I feel like, gave me those tools to apply to my life," Copeland said.

The ballerina continued, "She never gave up. I'm sure she heard 'No' a lot."

It was when Copeland made the move to New York City at just 17 years old that she heard those negative words regarding her race and body type for the first time.

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"It wasn't something that I ever thought about," Copeland admitted. "When I was in the studio, I was so focused and so in love and I finally had something that was mine and it gave me a voice. So, the color of my skin never crossed my mind. It was never brought to my attention."

Because the dancer started her active career at such a young age, her puberty was stunted until the age of 19, she said at the summit. It was then that Copeland began noticing the changes in her body that caused others to criticize her.

"I heard a lot of 'You're fat. Pretty much you need to lose weight. You're not right for this,' " Copeland said.

"Before, everything came so natural to me and I was considered a prodigy and it was the first time where I was like, 'If I really want this, I'm going to have to make some really big changes in how I view myself,' " Copeland said.

Despite the never-ending road blocks, she found a way to persevere.

"I had to reassess my diet and how I took care of my body. I think it was the first time I realized that my body is my instrument," Copeland admitted. "It's up to me. I have the control and the power to make it whatever I want it to be. That was a huge thing for me. It was powerful thing too."

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{blackbabes} La La Anthony Signs On To Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq'; ‘Sleight’ Sets Four

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La La Anthony has joined Spike Lee's Amazon Studios film Chi-Raq. Anthony will play Hecuba, a very strong outspoken feisty woman who is part of a female crew/gang. Chi-Raq is set against the violence in inner city Chicago. Chi-Raq touts a top-billed cast that includes Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. Anthony is a series regular on A&E's Unforgettable and starred in the Think Like a Man franchise. She is repped by UTA and Untitled Entertainment.

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JD Dillard's Sleight from Diablo Entertainment has inked four actresses: Stacey Dash (Clueless), Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live), Carmen Esposito (Maron) and Syechelle Gabriel (Falling Skies). Sleight is an urban magic thriller about a young Los Angeles street magician who is left to take care of his little sister after his mother's passing. He turns to drug dealing to keep a roof over their heads. After he has a run-in with his supplier and his sister is kidnapped, the magician has but no choice but to rely on his exceptional talents. The film stars Dulé Hill, Jacob Latimore and hip hop artist Tyga. Production begins this month. CAA is repping the film's domestic rights. Dash is repped by Silver Fox Managment, Zamata is a client of Gersh and Avalon and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman, L.L.P; Gabriel is repped by Stein Entertainment and WME; while Esposito is repped by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman, L.L.P.

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{blackbabes} Venus loses in straight sets at Istanbul Cup

 

ISTANBUL — Top-seeded Venus Williams was eliminated from the first round of the Istanbul Cup in a 6-4, 7-6 (4) upset by Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna Bondarenko on Tuesday.

Bondarenko managed three service breaks in the opening set and took a 5-2 lead in the second before Williams rallied, winning four consecutive games and serving at 6-5 for the set.

But the momentum swung back Bondarenko's way as the Ukrainian won 11 of the last 15 points to seal the victory.

In other matches, Urszula Radwanska of Poland upset third-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 and fourth-seeded Alize Cornet of France beat Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-3, 7-5.

Francesca Schiavone and Camila Giorgi of Italy advanced, along with Alexandra Panova of Russia, Kurumi Nara of Japan and Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia.

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{blackbabes} Top-ranked Serena pulls out of World TeamTennis

 

WASHINGTON — With the Grand Slam in sight, Serena Williams is not going to risk playing World TeamTennis.

Williams originally was slated to play for the Washington Kastles on Monday and Tuesday.

But in a news release Monday, the Kastles announced that Williams would miss those matches.

The No. 1-ranked Williams withdrew from the Swedish Open last week, citing an injured right elbow.

The 33-year-old American won Wimbledon this month for her fourth consecutive major title, including all three in 2015. If she wins the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 31, she will be the first tennis player with a calendar-year Grand Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988.

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{blackbabes} Nicole Ari Parker To Recur On ‘Rosewood’

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Soul Food alumna Nicole Ari Parker has been cast in a recurring role on Fox's new fall drama series Rosewood, starring Morris Chestnut as famous Miami private pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. Parker will play Rosewood's attractive and successful new girlfriend Kat Crawford, a highly sought-after psychologist specializing in PTSD who often counsels police, soldiers and others who regularly encounter violence.

Parker currently toplines alongside her husband, actor Boris Kodjoe, syndicated daytime talker The Boris & Nicole Show, which is getting a summer test run on Fox stations. The actress, repped by Gersh and LINK Entertainment, recently recurred on TNT's Murder In The First.

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{blackbabes} A feminine Bond: Meet the women of 'Spectre'

 

They're girls no more.

The women inhabiting the 24th James Bond movie are just as complex as the guy holding the license to kill in director Sam Mendes' Spectre (in theaters Nov. 6). USA TODAY gets a sneak peek at the dossiers for the international female quartet who will complement Daniel Craig's 007:

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LÉA SEYDOUX

Hometown: Paris

Age: 30

Also known as: Madeleine Swann

Her brush with Bond: The doctor daughter of an assassin, Swann comes into contact with Bond at her Austrian clinic, and while there is a spark between them, their first meeting is abrupt, to say the least. "He comes to find her," Seydoux says, "and she doesn't want anything to do with him."

Where you've seen her before: Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011), Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

MONICA BELLUCCI

Hometown: Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy

Age: 50

Also known as: Lucia Sciarra

Her brush with Bond: Bond arrives in Italy looking for information from the widow, whose Mafioso husband has been murdered — a fate that might be waiting for her as well. "She comes from a man's world," Bellucci says. "But when the attraction between them takes place and she realizes her feminine power on him, then she trusts him to save her."

Where you've seen her before: The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

NAOMIE HARRIS

Hometown: London

Age: 38

Also known as: Eve Moneypenny

Her brush with Bond: Moneypenny was a young and very green MI6 agent in 2012's Skyfall, and the events of the film — in which she nearly killed our favorite British superspy by accidentally shooting him — "made her reassess what she was doing as a profession and what she wanted to do with the rest of her life," Harris says. In Spectre, "she wants to support in a different way. There's a maturity in that decision and a groundedness you see with her."

Where you've seen her before: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013), Southpaw (in theaters Friday)

STEPHANIE SIGMAN

Hometown: Obregon, Sonora, Mexico

Age: 28

Also known as: Estrella

Her brush with Bond: Sigman would love to say, but she's sworn to secrecy about pretty much everything involving her character, including her last name. But when it comes to Estrella's personality, "there's a lot of Stephanie in her. She's a lot like me," the Hollywood newcomer says. "We like to have fun and we're joyful people. I found her really easy to play and go with the flow and just be me."

Where you've seen her before: Miss Bala (2011), Pioneer (2013), TV's The Bridge (2013-2014)

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