Monique Coleman.Photo: Courtesy Everett CollectionMonique Colemansays her signature headband look inHigh School Musicalwas the solution to a bigger issue – inexperienced styling of a Black actor’s hair.The actress, 40, who played the role of Taylor McKessie in the Disney Channel films, toldInsiderthat her character always wore statement headbands because stylists did her hair “very poorly.“A rep for Disney Channel did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.“We’ve grown a lot in this industry and we’ve grown a lot in representation and we’ve grown a lot in terms of understanding the needs of an African American actress,” Coleman said....

Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images It’s been a long road for Monique Heart. TheRupaul’s Drag Raceseason 10 star, who will return to the reality competition stage forAll Stars 4on Dec. 14, suffered years of inner turmoil before reconciling her faith and her sexuality through a drag persona. Born Kevin Richardson to a religious family in Long Island, New York, Heart was raised to believe that all sexual decisions could have dire consequences....

Mindy Mebane Kassotis.Photo: Georgia Bureau of Investigation/Facebook An ex-Navy JAG officer is accused of murdering his writer wife, whose dismembered body was found in the woods of a hunting club in Georgia in December, say authorities. On Friday, Nicholas Kassotis, 40, was arrested in Lancaster, Pa., in connection with the death of Mindi Mebane Kassotis, 40,the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Friday. Mindi was a writer and business owner who earned a master’s degree in public and international affairs at Virginia Tech....

Photo: Morgan Stewart/instagram (2) The host of E! News’Nightly Popalso re-posted the photo on her own Instagram Stories. Morgan Stewart/Instagram Story “The happiest month I’ve ever had,” shecaptionedthe picture of her holding up her newborn. Stewart and her husband McGraw announced the birth of their daughter on Instagram on Feb. 17. “Row Renggli McGraw just wanted me to quickly update you guys that after 30 hours, 27 apple juices, & 16 pushes later she decided to join our party!...

Photo:Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty The mother of the6-year-old boy who shot his teacherat a Virginia elementary school, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for felony offenses. The ruling — theAssociated Press,CNNandNew York Timesreported — comes after Deja Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty in June for illegally possessing a firearm while using marijuana and making a false statement about using the drug on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) form to buy the firearm....

Queen Elizabeth’s 25-mile-long funeral procession route from Westminster Abbey to Windsor Castle has inspired mourners to toss flowers toward the Queen’s hearse. But those who did so were asked to follow a certain set of instructions. Officials from theLondon Borough of Hounslowshared to the borough’s website that while it’s expected that residents will want to throw flowers, some of which wound up on the hood of the hearse, they must only throw single flowers with any wrapping removed....

An MSNBC anchor’s misdiagnosis meant what started as a common cold could have been fatal. Yasmin Vossoughian told viewers on the air that she had been absent from the show because she was “dealing with a little bit of a health scare.” “I wasn’t sure what to make of it but as it continued to get worse I started to think something was actually wrong,” she said. “I didn’t really buy it,” she confessed....

Muni Long performs in Sacramento in August 2023.Photo:Tim Mosenfelder/WireImageSingerMuni Longisn’t resting on her laurels. These days she’s not resting at all.Earlier this year Long, 35, won the Grammy for best R&B song, for her sexyviral hit “Hrs & Hrs”. “From the outside looking in you may say, ‘Well, now you’ve accomplished some amazing things you can take a back seat and let your business run',” she says of life after the major accomplishment....

Photo: Janelle Stecklein, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. via AP For more than 23 years, Richard Glossip has been sitting on death row in an Oklahoma prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. In fact, dozens of state lawmakers — many of them of Republicans who support the death penalty — agree with him. “Over 40 Republican state legislators have written to the governor and other people, saying that while they are in favor of the death penalty, not this time, that this guy is innocent,” says Jason Flom, a music executive who advocates for the innocent on his podcastWrongful Conviction....

Photo: Go Fund Me A family in North Carolina is mourning the loss of a mother and praying for her son after a drunk college student allegedly collided with the pair’s car Saturday, PEOPLE confirms. “Robin was beautiful inside and out she was intelligent and such a hard worker,” friend Ashley Philpottwrote on a GoFundMe page started to help the family. “She was compassionate, loved her job and what she did working with Veterans,” Philpott continued....

Emily Montgomery.Photo: Facebook A young North Carolina mom has been missing since Thanksgiving — and now a man she had dated is accused of killing her, say police. Emily Montgomery, a 26-year-old single mother, was last seen on Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, at about 10 p.m. at her home in Apex, near Raleigh, according to a release from the Apex Police Department. Her worried family reported her missing on Nov....

Photo: GoFundMeA 33-year-old nurse whose toddler children died a little more than two years ago is now facing two counts of manslaughter in New York.An NYPD source confirms to PEOPLE that Jade Spencer, who now lives in New Jersey, was living in the Bronx on July 10, 2017 — the day her two children, Olivia Gee, 2, and Micha Gee, 3, died under suspicious circumstances.Spencer was at home with her children and her boyfriend when the two toddlers started having trouble breathing....

Photo: TLCC Natalie Mordovtsevais giving fans an update about her family and friends as the war in her native country of Ukraine rages on. “My mom is safe from today morning, she made it to Europe with some other families,” the90 Day Fiancéstar, 37, wrote in an Instagram Story posted on Monday, about her mother who also appeared on the reality show. Natalie Mordovtseva/INSTAGRAM Mordovtseva, who viewers were first introduced to on season 7 of the long-running TLC show, is one of the latest Ukrainian celebs to give followers an update on the devastating invasion of their home country....