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HAITI-Michel Martelly is the new president of Haiti according to Reuters. Reuters reports that Martelly won Haiti’s Presidential election according to official preliminary results. Martelly is also know as “Sweet Micky,” after his Kompa band. He is friends with former Haitian President, President René Préval Martelly was supporter of the 1991 coup that ousted President […]

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New York– Rosie O’Donnell said she thinks that Chris Brown is held to a different standard and that there is a racial aspect in people’s judgment of him. During an airing of her XM radio show ‘Rosie Radio’, she also expressed that she was “mildly angry” at Robin Roberts after watching their Good Morning America […]

Watch the exclusive interview featuring “Dancing with the Stars'” Cheryl Burke and Chris Jericho as they both get up close and personal and even candid with Gayle in a recent discussion over the air about how sharing your personal struggles can be empowering and help others. Have you been keeping up with this season of […]

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The man accused of being behind the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X by the late author Manning Marable in his new biography “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention denies any involvement. In his major new biography “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” author Manning Marable, claims William Bradley, who many people over the years have […]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILL SCOTT Seems like she’s been gone from us for so long, doesn’t it? When we last heard from Jill Scott she was fresh into motherhood and successfully raising her first child – a baby boy, whom we are absolutely convinced he’s just as sweet and adorable as his mother is. Before that, […]

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LOS ANGELES — John Floyd Thomas, Jr., the 74-year-old man accused of raping and killing seven different older women in the seventies and eighties, pleaded guilty on Friday to the California murders. Investigators believe Thomas may be connected with as many as 30 different murders and sexual assaults across Inglewood, Lenox, Los Angeles, and the […]

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By Hakim Hasan Dr. Manning Marable, 60, a history and political science professor at Columbia University, died on Friday (April 1). His life as a scholar is beset by the tragic irony that his long-awaited biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is scheduled to be published on Monday (April 4) by Viking Press. It […]

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The results of a study conducted at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research show one in five of all American moms have kids who have different birth fathers. The study, headed by postdoctoral fellow Cassandra Dorius, found that a multiple-father type of family structure was more common among minority women, with 59 percent […]

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Cleveland, Texas– A fund-raiser for the 11-year-old girl who was gang raped last month was held Sunday.

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McDonald’s Corp. plans to hold its first national hiring day on April 19th to fill 50,000 openings at its restaurants nationwide. The company says it is making a concerted effort to add staff as its business improves and as more of its restaurants stay open 24 hours a day. The company’s hiring goal translates to […]

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Update (Monday 3 p.m.): DJ Mister Cee spun records at his normal hour of noon this afternoon on Hot 97’s “Old School at Noon.” Cee declined to mention anything regarding the rumors swirling around his arrest for lewd conduct with an alleged 20-year-old man. A few hours after his mix-show was over, Cee took to […]

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President Barack Obama has launched his bid for re-election with the new theme, “It Begins With Us”. This kicks off the campaign to accept contributions for the re-election race. Obama’s first fundraiser will begin in Chicago, April 14th. You can check out more of his campaign here. RECENT HEADLINES: Katie Couric Plans to Leave CBS […]