Did Usher's Ex-Wife Commit Plagiarism?

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When Tameka Foster posted the blog entry "She's Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl…" on The Huffington Post, both celebrities and regular women alike celebrated her blog message on Twitter and Facebook.

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Unbeknownst to them, while they were saluting Usher Raymond's soon-to-be ex-wife's essay on skin complexion, author Aisha Curry, who wrote the book 'Pretty For a Black Girl' (AuthorHouse/$10.49) read the piece and felt outraged that her tome had been apparently been lifted and used by Foster, who allegedly passed the work off as her own.

Read Foster's full essay here.

"My heart sank into my stomach. All the hard work, all the sleepless nights I had endured was playing back in my head as I read this article written by a woman I didn't even know," Curry told BV Buzz. "Why did I feel so connected to this article? Suddenly, it came to me. It was my work! It was my work, my voice, but in her words. I was frozen.

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