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Etta James Hospitalized With Sepsis
Soulful vocalist Etta James has been hospitalized in California with a potentially fatal blood infection, according to reports. James, 73, is perhaps best known for what has become a favorite wedding anthem, “At Last,” and reportedly suffers from a number of other serious ailments, including leukemia and dementia. Currently James is being treated for sepsis…
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Bishop Eddie Long: Judge Says Settlement Unlikely
Atlanta’s Cox News Service is reporting that the sexual-coercion lawsuits against Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church are more likely now to be tried publicly rather than settled out of court. Both the Atlanta Journal Constitution and WSB-TV (Cox properties) reported late Thursday that settlement discussions between the prosperity preacher and…
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Sports Anchor Daryl Hawks Dies at 38
Grim news of another black notable gone way too soon (this is our third report in the last 24 hours!): According to a Chicago Tribune report, the sports anchor for the Windy City’s NBC news affiliate was found dead in his Atlanta hotel room Thursday morning. The cause of 38-year-old Daryl Hawks’ death has not…
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Black Filmmakers Poised to Convene in Miami
Get ready to be dazzled by a vast array of independent moviemakers, aspiring starlets and leading actors when the 15th Annual American Black Film Festival convenes in Miami this July 6-9. The festival staged a vodka-fueled “Buzz Party” in Atlanta Thursday night that attracted about 200 people interested in joining the black Hollywood ranks. At the…
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T.I. in Trouble for Showcasing Dead Body on Reality Show
The legal troubles for chart-topping Atlanta-based rapper T.I. keep mounting, but his latest legal flap doesn’t involve drugs, guns or illicit sex in a correctional facility. T.I. — born Clifford Harris Jr. — now stands accused of disrespecting a dead man and his survivors for profit. According to several news sources, a lawsuit has just…
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SCLC Says It Will Go on Without Bernice King
The core leadership of the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference insists that it was not blindsided by today’s news that Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice is turning down the presidency of the organization that her father co-founded back in 1957. “We have not been leadership-less, and we still are not leadership-less,” Dr. Howard Creecy…
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Former SCLC Chair Indicted for Fraud, Grand Theft
Near the eve of our nation’s holiday in honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., prosecutors chose to indict a former chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on 51 felony charges of grand theft, fraud, forgery and evidence tampering. On Wednesday an arrest warrant was issued against 74-year-old former SCLC National Chairman Raleigh Trammell. Authorities…
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Educating Black Boys: Where Are the Parents?
Recent studies show that little white boys who go to school hungry still perform better on achievement tests than black boys who come from privileged homes. If that’s truly the case, then black parents who wonder why there’s such a wide gap in grades and test results between the races have only themselves to blame.…
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Give the CNN Special 'Almighty Debt' Credit for Trying
Go ahead and watch “Almighty Debt,” the latest offering in CNN’s Black in America series, which premieres on Oct. 21, if you have 90 minutes to spend on a distraction from your own financial troubles while rubbernecking at someone else’s. But if you’re too busy trying to free yourself from the clutches of predatory lenders,…
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