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Mahershala Ali has officially walked away from Marvel's Blade reboot, pivoting to an original action thriller with director Bassam Tariq.

North West has pulled the plug on two of her upcoming tour dates, days before she was scheduled to hit the stage. North was set to perform on August 5 with rapper Molly Santana in Dallas, Texas, but the show is now canceled along with their August 17 concert in Toronto, Canada. The official website promoting the Kimokawaii tour has been scrubbed from the Internet.

Singer Duffy has returned to the stage after a 15-year hiatus from performing. On July 5, the Welsh singer performed at Hoxton Hall in London in a secret, intimate gig that was her first full concert since 2011. Attendees had to enter a lottery to get tickets and sign NDAs.

The Clark Sisters and Fred Hammond are headed to the Las Vegas Strip as part of a new gospel music residency. Nearly every story calls it historic or a milestone, as though the Holy Spirit had won something by landing in a casino district built to separate tourists from their money. Jesus spent much of His time warning people about confusing God with money. This residency is only the latest example of how Christianity in general, and the Black Church in particular, have twisted the Gospel. If there was one thing Jesus made crystal clear, it was that faith wasn't supposed to be a hustle. Today, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between Christianity and Cash Money Records. Christians have drunk the world's Kool-Aid and started believing that if the market validates it, God must have too.

Nicki Minaj has a grim view of Dr. Fauci's future, saying he'll be eating from feeding tubes and losing the ability to speak. On Friday, the rapper posted a lengthy message on X with her bleak assessment of Fauci while also blaming the scientist for the pain and suffering that she believes he caused during the pandemic.