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Black Celebs Showed Out at Paris Fashion Week
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Dawn of the Dead
Finally made it back to the gym, and took a rather complicated route to get there. My son had to be at work at 6 a.m., so I rolled out of bed at 5 a.m., even though my alarm was set for 5:15. I’d gone to bed around 10:30 p.m., but was awake from about…
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Allen Iverson Agrees to Two-Year Deal With Turkish Team
Yahoo Sports is reporting that basketball icon Allen “A.I.” Iverson will sign a two-year deal with a professional basketball team in Turkey. Iverson will be paid $4 million to play with the Besiktas. He is expected to sign this week and report for work next week. The deal would allow Iverson, an 11-time NBA All-Star,…
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Obama Plugs Job Creation As Midterm Elections Loom
President Barack Obama plugged his administration’s job-creation efforts eight days before the midterm elections. During a campaign stop in Rhode Island, Obama acknowledged that some of his policies were not popular and that Americans were frustrated by the weak economic recovery. The president stressed that the steps he took averted a second economic depression. “It…
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'Hiccup Girl' Charged With First-Degree Murder
Jennifer Mee, 19, a teenager who attracted national media attention after she couldn’t stop hiccuping for five weeks, has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly luring a man to a house where he was robbed and fatally shot. According to St. Petersburg, Fla., police, the victim, Shannon Griffin, 22, befriended Mee while online at…
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T.I.: No Felony Charge in Los Angeles
The Associated Press is reporting that Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to file a felony drug charge against rapper Clifford “T.I.” Harris stemming from his arrest last month on the Sunset Strip. Deputies found four ecstasy pills on the 30-year-old rapper from Atlanta. T.I. was on supervised release after serving 10 months in prison for…
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Tyler Perry's View of 'For Colored Girls'
“This is a far cry from Madea,” Barbara Walters said matter-of-factly on last Friday’s episode of The View — and Tyler Perry agreed. Sitting down with the show’s co-hosts, the writer-director-producer-actor explained his initial fear in adapting Ntozake Shange’s legendary For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf from 64 pages…
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What Has Obama Done for Women?
Democrats usually have women voters in the bag. In the 2006 midterm elections, exit polls showed that women voters favored Democrats overall by 12 percentage points. In 2008 Barack Obama got 56 percent of the female vote in the general election. But as Nov. 2 looms, it’s become obvious to Democrats that their once comfortable…
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DNC Targets Black Voters With John Legend Radio Ad
R&B singer John Legend may have told The Root that he was not optimistic about the midterm elections, but that didn’t stop him from recording a radio ad for the Democratic National Committee to urge voters, especially African Americans, to “make history again.” Titled “Out There” — a riff off of Legend’s hopey-changey hit “If You’re Out…
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Rhode Island Dem Tells Obama to 'Shove It'
You don’t come to Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio’s state, schedule appearances with him and refuse to endorse him! Caprio made this plain when he told a local radio station early Monday that Barack Obama, who has declined to endorse anyone in the Rhode Island governor’s race, “can take his endorsement and really…
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Kanye West's 'Runaway' Imagination
Kanye West’s upcoming album is called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and over the weekend he revealed part of that fantasy to the world with the feature-length video for his song “Runaway.” West stars in and directs the video, which features model Selita Ebanks as a nearly nude, feather-clad phoenix who falls to earth and…