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The New York Times is reporting that legendary boxing promoter Butch Lewis passed away over the weekend. The flamboyant boxing promoter and manager best known for getting Michael Spinks a $13.5 million payday for what became 91 seconds in the ring with Mike Tyson died Saturday at his home in Bethany Beach, Del.  His death…

John H. Johnson, the late entrepreneur and pioneering publisher of Ebony, Jet and other magazines, will be featured in the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage stamp series in 2012. He joins a long line of distinguished leaders featured in the series, including Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall. “We are proud to immortalize John…

It is an impertinent question, but it has to be asked: Who would an accused serial killer call to testify in his defense? Apparently that is what accused Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell’s lawyers asked themselves and decided to punt. They rested their case on Tuesday without calling a single witness, according to Reuters. Sowell,…