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Foxy Brown Plans to Sue NYC for $100 Million Dollars
For now, Foxy Brown 's long-running rap sheet won't get any longer, following the dismissal of charges that she violated her probation in a 2010 incident with a neighbor. But the Brooklyn MC, born...
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Parents At Risk For Losing Super Obese Children?
Filed under: Health Medical professionals are in talks about the state of obese children because the nation as a whole is facing an epidemic, with Mississippians in the worse shape, but the youngest...
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Why Are People Still Having Weddings at Plantations Slaves Built?
From Good.Is: Your wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. So what if your happiness depends on exploiting the historical persecution of black people? Last year, a white British...
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South Sudan: An African American Opportunity
From Black Voice News: Whenever there are advances for African freedom and self-determination, African Americans, in particular, should always be able to define mutual interests, opportunities and...
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Who Gets to Tell Black Stories, Anyway?
From the Root: I can't decide if I want to applaud journalist Mac McClelland or verbally backhand her. Both reactions to McClelland's Good-magazine essay, "I'm Gonna Need You to Fight Me on This: How...
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Cain Rewrites History: I Said I Would Not Be Comfortable With 'A Terrorist In...
From Think Progress: The defining moment of former pizza executive Herman Cain's upstart presidential bid came in March when he told ThinkProgress that he would not be comfortable appointing Muslims...
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Michael Rapaport talks 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called...
From A.V. Club: Actor-turned-filmmaker Michael Rapaport has deep roots in the hip-hop community: He got his big break playing half of an interracial couple in 1992's Zebrahead, a film whose soundtrack...
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Monica's Million Dollar Wedding Dress
Filed under: Celebrity Style From US Weekly The dress is hers! After a secret, quickie wedding last November, singer Monica and former L.A. Laker Shannon Brown wed for a second time July 9. And this...
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Beyonce's Dad Speaks Out on Theft Allegations
Filed under: Celebrity FinancesAs we reported earlier this week, Mathew Knowles, the father and former manager of megastar Beyoncé Knowles, has filed court papers against Live Nation Entertainment over...
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Rihanna Takes Lady Gaga's Facebook Crown
From Billboard: Rihanna has overtaken Lady Gaga to become the most popular female artist on Facebook. Read more here. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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D'Angelo Hits the Studio With Questlove for New Album
Great news for music fans across the globe, D'Angelo's long-awaited follow-up to 2000's 'Voodoo,' 'James River,' may finally see the light of day before next January. And despite previous reports of...
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Bobby Brown Opens Up on New Edition's Reunion and More
New Edition's 1983 top-ten single, 'Is This the End,' told a melodic tale of heartbreak and separation, similar to the group's much publicized breakup in the 1980s. Luckily, the group have since...
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Gallery: The Week's Best Celebrity Style
Filed under: Celebrity Style , Red Carpet This week the stars came out in their hottest outfits for various parties and events including this year's ESPY Awards. Check out which celebrities made the...
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Split
From US Magazine: Jenny's back on the singles block. After seven years of marriage, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have split, their rep tells Us Weekly. Read more here. Permalink | Email this |...
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Snapped: Ciara Gets Lacy
Filed under: Celebrity Style At the kickoff for Ciara's Malibu Station Invasion 10-city Concert Tour in Miami, FL the leggy singer wore a lacy black dress with sky high black platform pumps and her sun...
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In Sierra Leone, New Hope for Children and Pregnant Women
From the New York Times: The paramedic's eyes were bloodshot, his features drawn. Pregnant women jammed into the darkened concrete bunker, just as they had yesterday and would tomorrow. The increase...
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New Finds For The African American Museum
From NPR: There's a new museum going up in Washington, D.C., and although its doors won't open until 2015, every few months here on weekends on All Things Considered, we get an early peek at the...
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A Population Changes, Uneasily
From the New York Times: This city, the country's first to have an African-American majority and one of its earliest experiments in black self-government, is passing a milestone. Read more here....
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Teaching About Race: 101
From Daily Kos: At a time when the election of the first African-American president of the United States has increased the amount of overt racism and racially tinged rhetoric in our national...
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The NBA is Totally Republican, and Other Lessons from Last Season
From the Atlantic: When LeBron James announced just over a year ago that he was joining Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and the Miami Heat, the NBA world exploded with questions. Were stars free to buck...
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