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Actress Vonetta McGee Passes Away
Model-turned-actress Vonetta McGee has passed away. The San Francisco native, who beat Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a young girl to grow up and star opposite Hollywood heavyweights Richard Roundtree, William Marshall and Clint Eastwood, died from a heart attack. McGee is best remembered for her roles as Aleme in Shaft in Africa, co-starring Roundtree; as Luva/Tina…
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Is Chad Ochocinco the 'Ultimate Catch' or the Ultimate Cad?
Chad Ochocinco is catching heat because of the lack of diversity in his pool of “catches” on his reality show, Chad Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch. Apparently sisters are up in arms because only three of the 17 candidates are black women. After the first round, he picked 14 white and Hispanic women, discarding the three…
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George Clinton, We Want You Back
George Clinton has represented an unparalleled creative vision since he and Parliament Funkadelic initially electrified the music and culture scene back in the 1970s. Anyone who attended a Funkadelic concert back in the day knows that the costumes, the antics, the beats, the drama, the unbridled sexuality, made for a three-ring circus of musical intrigue…
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DNA Confirms Body Found in Concrete Is Rodricus Williams
The Berkeley County coroner’s office has received DNA confirmation that the child found in a trash can filled with cement last week is the body of 2-year-old Rodricus Williams. The coroner is still awaiting a toxicology report to see just how the child died. You may recall that Rodricus’ father, Roger Williams, and his girlfriend…
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NeNe Leakes Reporting for Atlanta Television Station
The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member NeNe Leakes is now reporting for 11 Alive News Today in Atlanta. She will be doing “fun, light-hearted feature stories,” which will air on the station through July 23, 2010. Of course, the segments will be part of the filming for the upcoming season of The Real Housewives…
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Microsoft Researcher Argues That White Flight From MySpace Led to Facebook Success
A new analysis by Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd argues that Facebook’s success is due in part to “white flight” from MySpace. Boyd is no stranger to controversy, when she made headlines in 2007 by suggesting that during the period beginning in 2006 when teens began to flock to Facebook, teens’ preference for either MySpace or…
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