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We are so, sooo happy about the update we’ve heard from  Devon Still regarding his four-year-old daughter  Leah ‘s on-going battle with (a rare) pediatric cancer (also called “neuroblastoma”). Via his personal Instagram account , Still shared that Leah’s latest prognosis revealed her to be almost cancer-free! On the post he wrote: “We got Leah’s MIBG Scans back tonight and the doctors told us they didn’t see any active disease in her body!!!” MUST READ:  #LeahStill: Devon Still’s Daughter Walks In Fashion Week & We’ve Got All Thug Tears Still noted that they have a few more procedures and tests to go, like a MRI, to fully ensure the cancer is out of her system , but the road ahead is looking bright in a full recovery! From that same IG post, the Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackler celebrated the uplifting news with a photo and him and the apple of his eye and their smiles are everything! After what was a somber New Year’s in which Leah experien...

<img class="wp-image-2996628" src="https://ionetheurbandaily.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/102476966-e1427555574778.jpg?w=630&h=411" alt="37th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards - Arrivals" width="630" height="411" /> Source: Frazer Harrison / Getty Less than 24 hours after former “Family Matters” actor Darius McCrary was arrested in Oakland County, Michigan for failing to pay child support, his ex wife is retracting claims that McCrary abused his son. TMZ reports: “ Karrine ‘Superhead’ Steffans filed legal docs — obtained by TMZ — admitting she perjured herself when she joined forces with Darius’ baby mama in a child support war over their young son. Karrine claimed she saw her ex beat the boy with a spoon.” Steffans could face perjury charges for lying under oath in a court of law. The author and former video vixen gained fame by giving detailed accounts of bedding dozens of high...

OWN Oprah and OWN are determined to dominate the ratings this year. Now that the network has pinpointed exactly what it is viewers want to see, they’re on a roll. This September the network is sticking to the formula and reuniting with Jay Williams. For those who don’t remember, Williams is the man with 34 children by 17 different women . Iyanla sat down with him and several mothers of his children for one of her “Fix My Life” shows. According to Variety , this time around Jay, of Atlanta, will have his own show where he will try to mend the relationships with his family, children and mothers of his children. Iyanla will be helping to guide him along the way. While Jay certainly needs to “do the work,” to borrow a phrase from Iyanla, I do wonder if all of this fame and recognition is going to his head. At the same time, with his track record, full of irresponsibility,  it’s doubtful that Jay would attempt to repair these relationships without the camera...

Alex Wong/Getty Images “This is one of those issues, like the civil rights movement of the 1960s, where it should pull all Americans together to say enough is enough,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told  Vox . The Senator is baffled by the fact that both groups, Black and White, use and sell marijuana at the same rate, but African Americans are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for it. In New Jersey, Booker said, African Americans make up just 14.7 percent of the population but account for 61 percent of the prison population. “You go to college campuses and you’ll get white drug dealers. I know this from my own experience of growing up and going to college myself,” Booker told Vox.  “Fraternity houses are not being raided by police at the level you see with communities in inner cities.” Booker is also rattled by the overwhelming number of prisoners incarcerated for drug-related crimes. Meanwhile, prisoners who are arrested for violent, more sev...

Here's what we're talking about over our coffee and bagels this morning: Living Single stars Ericka Alexander and Kim Coles are bringing their real-life friendship to YouTube in a new web series. The BFF chronicles will follow Alexander and Coles, who played Max and Sinclair on Living Single , as they share their crazy lives as best friends. The pair have been teasing the show on social media but there's no word yet on when we can tune in. [ Hello Beautiful ]

Model students—as in, the ones who pay attention and do well in school—aren't generally too hard to come by. But what about a model teacher ? Upon noticing that his math lecturer was really ridiculously good looking, University College London co-ed Arief Azli decided to do a little Google searching (though surely, he waited until after class). What he found was beyond the bomb digs: The teacher, Pietro Boselli, also had another job as a super fit, world-class male model. Azli Facebooked his findings—comparing a semi-creepy in-class shot of Boselli to a shirtless modeling pic—revealing his teacher's secret Derek Zoolander double life to the Interwebs. Follow Arief Azli with Keltoum Lazraq Works at International Youth Leadership Network January 30, 2014  That moment when you realised your maths lecturer is one of the top designer model ‪#‎ OnlyatUCL‬ ‪#‎ UCLengineering‬ ‪#‎ MechanicalEngineers‬ ‪#‎ ModellingandA...

Actress Taraji P. Henson has apologized to the Glendale Police Department after accusing an officer of racially profiling her son. GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- Actress Taraji P. Henson has apologized to the Glendale Police Department after accusing an officer of racially profiling her son. Henson, who plays the no-nonsense music matriarch on the hit TV show "Empire," posted a statement on Instagram Friday afternoon. "A mother's job is not easy and neither is a police officer's," Henson wrote on Instagram . "Sometimes as humans WE over react without gathering all of the facts. As a mother in this case I over reacted and for that I apologize. "Thank you to that officer for being kind to my son," Henson wrote. Henson told Uptown Magazine that her 20-year-old son, Marcell Johnson, was racially profiled in Glendale, where she alleged police pulled him over and illegally searched his car. "It was bogus b...