Are they for real? Get ready to go to church -- down south! Oxygen is expanding its hit Preachers of… franchise with Preachers of Atlanta. The series follows five pastors with drastically different approaches to their ministries -- there’s everything from a rapping minister to a tutu-wearing pastor. And the new show promises to explore hot-button, polarizing issues in America.
Preachers of Atlanta features a young, vibrant group of pastors who are pushing the envelope and tackling real-world issues in their communities, creating thought-provoking dialogue,” Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development at Oxygen Media Rod Aissa said in a statement to ET.
“The series showcases a new generation of preachers who, through their nontraditional approaches, are unapologetic in their ministry and unafraid to break down boundaries in an effort to drive positive change,” Aissa continued. Check out the trailer :
Lathan, the star of the movie “The Perfect Guy,” was touched by the strength she witnessed in many of the foster care teen girls that she has worked with over the past seven years. “I was moved by these girls’ hope for a better future,” she said. It is that optimism for a brighter day that led Lathan to create a bridge for foster care girls around the country. She has started the Sanaa Lathan Foundation.
“My foundation will support foundations that help foster care girls,” Lathan said. “We will also create scholarships for them. The youth is the future and they need us. This is so dear to my heart.”
According to the Alliance For Children Rights website: • 28,000 children are in foster care in Los Angeles County. • 1,400 foster children are awaiting adoptive families. • Nearly one half of foster care children have learning disabilities or developmental delays. Sanaa says her own privileged life is what led her to what to help others. “When I look back on my teen years, I am grateful my mother and father were extremely supportive of me. I want to provide some measure of that same support to the youth who have aged out of foster care.” Should you want to assist Sanaa in her noble cause, you can click here to donate to her not-for-profit foundation.
If you need a little more Tamar and Vince in your life you’re in luck. The fourth season of the couple’s hit reality series, aptly titled Tamar & Vince, is set to return to your TV screens next month, December 10th. WeTV has just released a super-trailer for the new season that seems to deal with a lot of the pressure Tamar must be feeling having to balance both her personal and professional life. Juggling life as a wife, mother, star of two reality shows and a talk show can’t be easy, which I guess is why things eventually come to a head in the clip below.
Tamar has been hospitalized several times this year for exhaustion and other ailments, including recently when she was diagnosed with blood clots in both lungs. Related: Tamar Braxton Drops Out of Dancing with the Stars So, will any of this cause Tamar to finally slow down? You’ll have to tune in to see. The show is reportedly still shooting and has been on hand to catch much of the drama from Tamar’s stint on this season’s Dancing with the Stars.
The most famous HIV positive athlete in the world reached out to the most famous HIV positive actor in the world. NBA icon Earvin “Magic”Johnson, 56, showed his support for Charlie Sheen on Twitter.com after the 50-year-old actor announced his HIV status on the “Today” show on Tuesday.
“In @CharlieSheen breaking his silence, I hope he joins me in educating the world about HIV/AIDs,” Magic tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “I wish @CharlieSheen and his family the best. With the advancement in treatments and medicine he can fight this disease and live a long life.”
Sheen did not respond to Magic on Twitter.com. In a shocking announcement in 1991, Johnson told the world he was infected with the virus that causes AIDS. There was no social media on the Internet back then, but word spread quickly about Johnson’s HIV status in the hours before he held the press conference. Johnson retired from the Los Angeles Lakers NBA team shortly after his announcement. In the early 90s, Johnson began taking antiretroviral drugs that were still in the experimental stage. The drugs suppressed the virus in his blood and kept it from multiplying. Through Johnson’s efforts, the HIV drug cocktail was soon made available to everyone who was diagnosed with HIV, regardless of their ability to pay.
Truly the pot calling the kettle black! NeNe Leakes sat down with The View this morning to promote her stint as Mama Morton in Chicago on Broadway and ended up slamming the hosts for being mean girls…
In a Tweet that has since been deleted NeNe writes,
Just sat with a bunch of mean girls turning up their noses, looking u up & down as if u don't belong! The HATE was so real & SAD
Check out the full interview below to see what set NeNe off
Actor Charlie Sheen admits he has known that he is HIV positive for four years. This morning Charlie Sheen sat down with Matt Lauer on the Today Show and revealed his HIV status and admits he was being blackmailed by several people including a prostitute who took pictures of his viral load medicine and threatened to expose him. The National Enquirer was the first to report that Sheen is HIV positive, a story they have worked on for 18 months, and two hours after they released their story People confirmed the news with crisis manager Howard Bragman.
I have paid those people. Not that many, but enough,' he said. 'I don’t want to guess wrong, but enough to bring into the millions. What people forget: that’s money they’re taking from my children; I’ve got five kids and a granddaughter.
'For some reason I trusted them, they were deep in my inner circle. I thought they could be helpful and instead, my trust turned to their treason.' When asked if he was still paying anyone for their silence, Sheen said; 'Not after today I'm not.' He then said; 'I think I release myself from this prison today.'
Sheen had reportedly spent $5million to keep the news that he had HIV 'silent,' but despite this it has now become an 'open secret' to many in Hollywood. He also said it was 'impossible' that he had transmitted the virus to anyone else.
Charlie insists he was open about his status to his partners and admits having unprotected sex with at least two people who were fully aware of his illness and that both of them were under the care of his doctor.
Charlie Sheen's doctor also sat down with Matt Lauer and explained that Charlie does not have AIDs and undetectable viral loads which makes it extremely rare to transmit the disease during safe sex.
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