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We’ve talked about mega-church pastors across the country, the high rollers in the pulpit. We’re still waiting to see if the Obamas will claim a church home in Washington. And it’s been a year since Jeremiah Wright’s name was rolling off our tongues in political conversation. It’s high time we paid respect to the great…

Fans of The Game have been all over the Internet for the past several months, trying to save the canceled CW show with online petitions, Tweets, Facebook-status dedications and e-mail chains lamenting the show’s unceremonious demise. In an effort to save the show, the cast recorded a YouTube video, Change the Game Campaign, to get…

There comes a time when every college student realizes that the world does not revolve around MTV, dorm parties and 3 a.m. runs to the nearest 24-hour McDonald’s or IHOP. It’s when you start making friends who ask your opinion about Michael Steele and Chris Matthews; when you get into debates over your preference of…

Contact Music reports that Michael Jackson is planning on opening a casino to boost is dwindling fortune. The ‘Thriller-themed’ gambling den is scheduled to open its doors in Las Vegas next year. It is also being alleged that Jackson is working on a new album, a museum and several movie projects. All of this in…

57-year old war veteran Jerome Ersland has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 16-year old Antwun Parker in Oklahoma City. Parker had been a participant in an attempted convenience store robbery which Ersland thwarted when he shot Parker in the head. After pursuing the other suspect, Jevontia Ingraham, unsuccessfully, Ersland returned…

Was it staged? Neither Bossip nor the good people of the NSA know for sure, but the fact is this: Eminem was involved in a MTV Movie Awards prank that left him more acquainted with the junk of Sacha Baron Cohen than he would probably like to be. During the Best Male Performer presentation at…

As the story goes, 60 years ago, Frank McNamara, the founder of what’s considered the first credit card, was eating out at a restaurant, and when the check arrived, he realized that he had not brought along his wallet. The embarrassing situation led him to eventually create the Diners Club card, which allowed members to…

There was Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas and Mulan. Tiana arrives this fall in the first Disney film featuring a black American princess. Set in 1920s New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog tells the story of a young waitress and gifted chef who dreams of following her father’s lead and owning…

Danielle Belton of The Black Snob pens a pretty spot-on treatment of the realities people of color face in Hollywood’s vision of the future for American Prospect. Not only is life beyond the Milky Way rather milky indeed, but also those coloreds who have ascend to power seem only there to fill a quota and…

Air France Jet Disappears Over Atlantic USA Today reports that all passengers are feared dead after the Air France jet hit a heavy turbulence and thunderstorms in its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The search area where the plane may have gone down is vast and “Brazil’s military searched for the plane off…