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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…

Oklahoma highway patrol pulled over an ambulance on the way to the hospital for reckless driving when it swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting a car that had slowed down in front of it. The OHP claim that after pulling the ambulance over, one of the EMTs assaulted an officer. That assault was not caught…

Cynthia Gordy of Essence sits down with Anita Hill, now a professor at Brandeis University and talks shop regarding President Obama’s choice in Sonia Sotomayor as a replace for David Souter and the Senate confirmation testimony that made her a hero for women in some circles and a pariah in others. It’s been nearly twenty…

Newark Mayor Cory Booker sits down with Bill Moyers of PBS to discuss race, politics and the American future. The brotha is a young up and comer who seems to really care what’s going on in his community and this interview is certainly worth the sit-down.

Paul Miller, better known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is the man the Sunday Star Times calls “Einstein with a better haircut, a streetwise black Tolstoy, sharp as Zorro’s sword, funny as Falstaff.”  He made his name on the international art scene juggling multiple roles as a composer, multimedia artist, writer and DJ. His…

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