The Wiz Live!

NBC is rolling out a big event for the holiday. The reboot of the famed Broadway show is coming back to the screens with an all-star African American cast. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, it will premiere on the network.

Will it be a hit or a flop?

The cast includes Shanice Williams, Ne-Yo, Amber Riley, Elijah Kelley, Common, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, David Alan Grier and Uzo Aduba.

It will premiere on the network on December 3rd.

It's been 40 years since The Wiz. The 1975 Broadway production won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical was an early example of Broadway's mainstream acceptance of works with an all-black cast.

The Broadway show is an urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of modern African-American culture.

Stephanie Mills, who once played Dorothy in The Wiz will make a guest star role as Aunt Em.

The musical inspired a motion picture film that featured Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne and Michael Jackson. It was viewed as a flop but remains a cult classic among the fans.

People's "Sexist White Man" Alive!

David Beckham snags the People's cover.

For the umpteenth time, People Magazine releases its "Sexist Man Alive" issue. Thus proving me and S. Baldwin's point about the magazine's deliberate attempts to ignore men of color.

The now retired English soccer star David Beckham graces its annual cover.

"I never feel that I'm an attractive, sexy person," said Beckham. "I mean I like to wear nice clothes and nice suits and look and feel good, but I don't ever think of myself that way."

Beckham joins the list of many men who graced the "Sexist Man Alive" cover.

And once again People faces a backlash. Because this has been over 20 years since a person of color ever graced that cover for the "Sexist Man Alive."

David is married to reality star/designer/former pop singer Victoria Beckham (nee Adams) and has four children.

Beckham is one of the highest paid soccer players in the United States. He is one of FIFA's best footballers ever.

While we don't hate on the fact that Beckham earned the title of "Sexist Man Alive", you notice that People chooses the candidates selectively.

I mean there hasn't been a man of color on that magazine since Denzel Washington.

Although Idris Elba, Jussie Smollet, Michael B. Jordan, Drake and Ki Hong Lee were in the featured in the list of "Sexist Men". They never graced the cover of People.

The celebrity agitating magazine has often face harsh criticism for this.

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Rachel Dolezal: We're All Children Of Africa!

I'm proud to be...me! Rachel Dolezal comes out of hiding to tell the public that she's pregnant. By the way, she's White.

The former NAACP president who brought her "faux pas" to the junk food media announced she is pregnant. Oh, by the way, she admits that she is a White woman. She's also admits she's bisexual.

This woman is a hot mess.

Rachel Dolezal became a lightening rod for the agitators in the media. Despite all the good she's done for the civil rights organization, she hid the fact that she was a White woman portraying herself as a Black woman.

Dolezal's own parents "outed" her as a White woman. They told the junk food media that she was born in Montana. She wasn't adopted. She does volunteer work for the community. She was infatuated with Black culture. She lied to get into Howard University. She married a Black man. She adopted two Black teen boys. She even tries to talk "Black".

The junk food media sought interviews with her and wanted to know why did she fake the funk!

Dolezal refuses to be called a White woman. She says that she's a product of African roots.

The Real got an opportunity to talk to her.

She also addresses her feud with her family.

The Real co-hosts Tamar Braxton and Loni Love asked Dolezal about the matter sans pretense.

“It was hurtful to a lot of Black women,” said Love. “There were some people who felt that you never identified yourself as white so when you went to Howard University. Some people felt like they never knew you were Black, and so maybe the scholarship, you know when you got admitted to Howard, that took an opportunity from a Black woman.”

Rachel Dolezal talks about her ordeal and her pregnancy. She gets a grilling from Loni Love and Tamar Braxton. 

“Right, and that’s why I said, I acknowledge that I was biologically born white to white parents, but I identify as Black,” Dolezal responded.

Whether or not her admitting to being born white was enough, Braxton pushed the issue further and asked what ethnicity Dolezal lists herself as in official forms and documentation. Say, if she were to fill out a job application. Dolezal’s response?

“The form in particular usually defines things,” she said, before adding: “I check white and black, because we all have human origins in the continent of Africa.”

Dolezal did receive a standing ovation from the crowd for admitting her white heritage, as well as for her supposedly being honest while answering the co-hosts’ questions.

Halle Berry Is Back On The Market!

It's a wrap for Halle and Oliver. The celebrity couple announce separation.

Halle Berry has the worst luck in relationships. It seems like her third marriage is a wrap.

Berry has a temper. She is bipolar and can be volatile when she's under the influence of alcohol.

I guess it's taken its toll on the two year marriage.

She and her husband, actor Oliver Martinez announced they're splitting up.

The couple met in 2010 and wed in 2013; they had a son together that same year. 

They released a joint statement to celebrity agitator People Magazine. 

"It is with a heavy heart that we have come to the decision to divorce," the couple says in a statement to People. "We move forward with love and respect for one another and the shared focus of what is best for our son. We wish each other nothing but happiness in life and we hope that you respect our and, most importantly, our children's privacy as we go through this difficult period." Berry, who has a 7-year-old daughter with aforementioned brawler Gabriel Aubry, has been divorced twice before.

However, while Berry asks for no spousal support for either party, and for the costs of raising their child to be shared as per terms of their prenup, Martinez asks for issues of spousal support to be sorted out at a later date. The actress states that all of her earnings and assets are her property per their prenup. 

Both are seeking joint custody of their 2-year-old son, Maceo-Robert, but Berry's filing has an attached form about visitation, saying they will "share custody as is in the best interest of the child" but that Martinez should provide transportation to and from visits and need permission to take Maceo out of California. 

Berry had planned to raise her two children (she has a daughter, Nahla, from Gabriel Aubry) in Europe, but was never able to make the move because of ongoing custody issues with Nahla's father, Gabriel Aubry. Meanwhile, Martinez "never loved living in L.A. full time," according to a source. "[He] just isn't happy in L.A." 

Martinez's temper also allegedly played a role in the split. "He has a violent temper," the source told People this summer. Martinez got into a Thanksgiving brawl with Aubry in 2012, and was caught shoving an LAX employee with a baby seat earlier this year. The employee is now suing the couple for $5 million. 

Ultimately, a source tells People that the relationship between the two "fiery personalities" had "run its course," adding: "They are keeping it amicable now. She is okay." 

This is Martinez first divorce, and the third for Berry, who wed baseball player David Justice in 1993 and singer Eric Benét in 2001.

She got some more bad news handed to her. CBS had canceled the hit drama Extent.

Berry had returned to television after 10 years. The series was produced by Amblin Entertainment and CBS Television Studios.

Bobbi Kristina Brown In Dire Straights!

Celebrity agitator Bobbi Kristina Brown is in hospice. 

It's the dire straights for celebrity agitator Bobbi Kristina Brown. The only daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston was found unconscious in her suburban Atlanta home.

They rushed her to a hospital where they tried to revive her. The doctors placed her in a medically induced coma and tried to see if the swelling in her brain would calm. The medication didn't help her and apparently the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into her injuries. Nick Gordon who lived with Brown is being criticized for being negligent and abusive.

She's permanently brain damaged. The doctors exhausted all their hope for her.

Now the family has confirmed that she's in a hospice. The family now can confirm that everything done couldn't help her out of the coma.

Now they're preparing for the eventual demise of the daughter of a legendary singer who met her fate in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub in 2012.

Pray for Krissy.

Some memorable moments from her official Twitter page.

Hiworld :)(: yes I am a night owl, this is when my creative side come's out. ALLTHETIME! I need2be in the studio RITENOW! #SOONverySOON! 😊☺️

— Bobbi Kristina H.G. (@REALbkBrown) January 26, 2015

" When the power of love takes over the love of power that's when things will change !" #JimiHendrix. #GreatsOfMYWomderYears! #OLDsoul❤️

— Bobbi Kristina H.G. (@REALbkBrown) January 19, 2015

" No weak heart shall prosper." -#BobMarley. You lived through turmoil but within #YourUtopia, life was SOsweet & love was SOnatural.✌️❤️

— Bobbi Kristina H.G. (@REALbkBrown) January 10, 2015

My life, my life, keep living , keep pushing . Gods way is the only way.. :)(; #GodBless u all & goodnight xxo

— Bobbi Kristina H.G. (@REALbkBrown) January 8, 2015

A young life gone too soon....

Your thoughts on this!

Washington State NAACP President Facing Heat Over Her "Blackness!"

Civil rights leader told tales of Blackness. In reality she's a white woman. Her family outed her in this bitter family feud.

I think I've talked about this before. But if I haven't, let's get down to business. The oldest civil rights group is facing a controversy. One of its chapter presidents is under fire for being a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Before I go into it, let's first get this out the way.

Yes, there are White people in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Yes, the NAACP is progressive on issues such as civil rights, gay rights and gun control.

Yes, the NAACP has been controversial in some of its past commentary. This issue is considered a controversy in the eyes of agitators. It's not big but the junk food media will make it big.

The Republican Party and conservatives want to claim they founded the NAACP back in them days. But in the same breath they now call it a "racist" organization because of its progressive stances on social issues.

All the good she's done and they still want her out.

It's not a solely Black group. The NAACP is a group devoted to the equal rights for all Americans.

Enter Rachel Dolezal, the president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. She's under fire because she falsely claimed that's she Black. She's dodging the cameras and closing her social media off.

It's a big topic in the city of Spokane and the junk food media is invested in outing the fake.

CNN reports the mother of Rachel Dolezal made the claim that she is white  Her mother said Friday that her daughter "has not explained to us why she is doing what she's doing and being dishonest and deceptive with her identity."

Her mother told the local junk food media that their daughter has never been black, biracial or non-white. She even showed hundreds of pictures of her in her "natural look".

Ruthanne Dolezal said her daughter Rachel gradually began referring to herself as black around 2007 and that "she has never claimed to be biracial or African-American in our presence."

She married a Black man and became a step-mom to his family.  Her parents probably disapproved of it. 

The parents last talked to their daughter "some years ago," with Ruthanne Dolezal saying "Rachel has not wanted to have contact with us."

The NAACP issued a statement Friday on Rachel Dolezal's "enduring a legal issue with her family," saying, "We respect her privacy in this matter."

"One's racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard for NAACP leadership," the group said. "The NAACP Alaska-Oregon-Washington State Conference stands behind Ms. Dolezal's advocacy record."

For one thing, why discredit the good that's been done by Dolezal?

So what you're saying is that she's a phony!

She lied Black to become the president of region's NAACP.

Nice tan.

So you're telling the public that because she's born White (or refused to be labeled as such), you want her out?

So if she acts, talk like and slept with Black, she shouldn't be a part the NAACP.

Nice. So I guess she's going to be fired out the cannon for being White.

Hate to tell you folks, that White people are welcomed into the NAACP.

The NAACP also was founded by three White people.

This comes in the wake of death threats being sent to the NAACP.

They are trying to discredit her as a legitimate civil rights leader. The agitators are trying to say she staged the death threats that were sent to the Spokane NAACP.

Black women: Do you believe that Dolezal's actions merit her being fired from the NAACP?

Black America: Dolezal is working for the good of all Americans as a part of the NAACP. Is the fact that she doesn't want to be labeled by race an issue for you?

Me and S. Baldwin will follow this controversy.

I've Cut The Face.....!

It's about time for me to put an end to my social media fixation. I am taking a long break from Facebook.

It's time to end my reign on the world's most popular social media website.

I am not canceling my account for now. But I will eventually. I am getting tired of viewing everyone and anyone. I admit that I am jealous. I am jealous of everyone and everything.

I wanted to be with the "IT" crowd. I wanted to be "friends" with anyone and anybody!

My family, friends, ex-girlfriends, co-workers, and even my boss were friends on Facebook. I kept in touch with them through birthdays, anniversaries, new children, deaths and celebrations. I've posted on their walls about my life and how I'm doing! The more friends I've gotten, the better I felt. It's was one of the greatest feelings to be wanted.

Then I realized that I wasn't moving as fast as my friends and family. They're celebrating weddings, births, and new achievements. I haven't experienced any in the past four years. So I seen myself at a peak of jealous and depression.

Longing for the days of success, I seen myself as a failure!

Facebook can cause couples to break up.

The whole situation with that woman Jessica has finally woke me up to the ugly reality of life.

I am angry with myself over this. I put so much into a huge waste of time. I felt that looking at others being happy kind of makes me sad. So I don't want to be sad. I will admit this. This social media can make me jealous.

So therefore, I am on a hiatus.

I want to thank my friends, family, co-workers and formers. I wish them well.

I am taking a long (and I mean long) break from Facebook.

I am too damn nice and willing to accept or take anything. I am not mad at her for lying and deceiving me during our time, I am too embarrassed to the tell someone how I feel about it.

I don't want to share my business with everyone on social media anymore.

Maybe here on this blog. But I have to generate enough people to view it.

Anyway, I have posted some time ago about the Facebook decline. The social media titian has over 1.4 billion subscribers.

The social network was founded by four Harvard students who wanted to keep in touch with classmates at the prestigious university. Who would of thought that this little experiment would become the world's most popular way to connect to people.

Now it's over 10 years and the social media website is still reigning on top. But it's on the downslide. Predicted in less than 5 years, the social media website will lose over 80%  of active users.

Are you addicted to Facebook?

Do you get jealous of people when they share their relationships, new achievements and successes?

Share your comments with us here at World News Today!

Nichelle Nichols Suffered A Stroke!

Nichelle Nichols suffered a stroke.

Famed Star Trek actress who played Lt. Nyota Uhura suffered a mild stroke according to her publicist.

Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols) is an American actress, singer and voice artist. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her most famous role is that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular Star Trek television series (1966–1969), as well as the succeeding motion pictures, where her character was eventually promoted in Starfleet to the rank of commander. Multiple novel series have stated that she rose to at least Captain.

Nichols' Star Trek character, one of the first African American female characters on American television not portrayed as a servant, was groundbreaking in U.S society at the time. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. personally praised her work on the show and asked her to remain when she was considering leaving the series.

Official StatementLast night while at her home in LA, Nichelle Nichols suffered from a mild stroke. She is currently...
Posted by Nichelle Nichols on Thursday, June 4, 2015

The 82-year old actress is undergoing testing after suffering the stroke at her home in Los Angeles.

This happened a few months since breakout star Leonard Nimoy passed away.

George Takei went to the social media to send his regards to his friend and remind his followers to wish her well.

We understand #NichelleNichols has been rushed to the hospital. We don't have any diagnosis on her condition but our thoughts are with her.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 4, 2015

No word from jackass William Shatner....

Shatner was slammed by Star Trek fans for not attending the funeral of Nimoy.

World News Today send our prayers to the family of Nichelle Nichols. We wish her well on her recovery. We will keep you informed on her status.

Viola Davis: I'm Natural So Why Would They Want Me To Wear A Wig?

Annalise Keating showing the natural side.

How To Get Away With Murder is co-produced by Peter Nowalk and Shonda Rhimes and it features Broadway's famed Viola Davis. The ABC drama is a go for second season.

HTGAWM for short is one highly praised drama. I'm a fan of the series.

Viola plays the role of Annalise Keating as a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with four of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot.

One of the most famous scenes was Annalise taking off her wig, her eyelashes and wiping off the makeup and showing the natural side of her. It was ad lib and it was Viola's idea.

Kerry Washington, Viola Davis and Ellen Pompeo.

She wanted to do this as a reminder to women that beauty is inner deep.

There was something for me that I didn’t buy about Annalise in private. It felt like who she was in private had to be diametrically opposed to who she was in public. And so in order to do that, I felt like I had to physically take the wig off. I mean, I have no eyebrows. I have eyelashes that I put on, and there was something extremely vulnerable about that act -- and I know it seems like a very simple act at the end of the day -- but for me, that simple act really surmounted to something very powerful in the end, because what it was was someone being very, very private in public, which is absolutely the cornerstone of what we do as artists.

That episode was epic.

Rhimes have gotten fans talking about controversial seasons of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.

She promises fans that they will be even better.

A lot of talk coming from the killing of Meredith Grey's husband Derrick Shepard (played by Patrick Dempsey). Fans weren't happy about the decision to write off Dempsey's character.