Marie Johnson: Last News

Charna Flam Kristin Bjorklund, co-executive producer of “Family Feud” for 40 years died on March 5. She was 67. Bjorklund was on the kidney transplant list for years, and following her surgery on March 2, she developed an aggressive infection from the incision. After attending Dartmouth, Bjorklund started her career at Goodson-Todman Productions. By 1982, Bjorklund joined “Family Feud,” making the game show her home for 40 years. In 2019, and after producing well over 2,000 episodes, the producer won an Emmy Award for her work on the series. “Family Feud” co-executive producer, Brian Hawley wrote “Kristin Bjorklund was my coworker, my buddy, my sister from another mister. She could be feisty, strong-willed and oh-so-anal, but she had a fun, raunchy sense of humor and there was nothing better than hearing her laugh” Hawley added, “When my life was a mess or my house was falling apart, I called Kristin. Without Kristin’s friendship, my first few years working in Atlanta wouldn’t have been tolerable.”

Misty Copeland, who started a petition to add more inclusive shades of color to the traditional pink Apple ballet shoe emoji.Copeland, 41, the first black woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, posted about the initiative to her 1.8 million Instagram followers on Sept. 21, explaining that ballet started in 15th century Italy for the white elite and its shoes are pink to match fair skin color.

Kim Kardashian flashed her toned midriff in a sheer two-piece as she arrived at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Tuesday. Kim, who earlier attended a Lakers basketball game alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, is no stranger when it comes to standout outfits from some of the biggest designers.

Kim Kardashian opened up about her efforts working with then-President Donald Trump on her criminal justice reform efforts, saying she initially felt underprepared when she went in on behalf of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who received a life sentence in 1996 over nonviolent drug charges.  Speaking on the Angie Martinez IRL Podcast podcast Monday, Kardashian - who has been studying to receive a law degree in recent years - said she kept in close touch with her lawyer amid her first visit to the nation's capital in 2018.'I hated how I felt when I went into the White House for the first time and I didn’t know half of anything that they were saying - like all of the clemency talk, and all the attorney lingo and everything that they were talking about,' she said. 'I literally was sitting there, like texting my attorney that was next to me.' The latest: Kim Kardashian, 42, opened up about her efforts working with then-President Donald Trump on her criminal justice reform efforts, saying she initially felt underprepared when she went in on behalf of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who received a life sentence in 1996 over nonviolent drug chargesKardashian said that she 'just dove into' the process in her efforts to help people.'I was to the point where I didn’t even know like all of the abbreviations in the White House, so they were like okay this person at the DOJ, and I was like "What is the DOJ?"' she said.

Kim Kardashian is exposing the system.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor More than two years after Kim Kardashian inked an exclusive deal with Spotify for a podcast series focused on criminal-justice reform, the series is finally out. On Monday, Spotify released the first two episodes of original podcast “Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith,” available worldwide. Following the series premiere, new episodes will be released each Monday thereafter. The eight-episode podcast is narrated by Kardashian alongside veteran true-crime producer Lori Rothschild Ansaldi, produced by Spotify and Tenderfoot TV. It follows the story of Keith, an Ohio man convicted of triple homicide who — for nearly three decades — has been working alongside his family to prove he was wrongly accused.

Rosa Lee Hawkins, the youngest founding member of the celebrated New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups, died in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, January 11 of internal bleeding caused by complications from surgery, The New York Times reports. She was 76.

Rosa Lee Hawkins, whose group the Dixie Cups bumped the Beatles off the No. 1 position on the charts in 1964 with their hit “Chapel of Love,” died Tuesday at age 76 in Tampa, FL.