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WCHB – Florida Representative Kelli Stargel has submitted a controversial ideal for education reform, suggesting that teachers should grade parents just like the grade students. She explains: “We have student accountability, we have teacher accountability, and we have administration accountability. This was the missing link, which was, look at the parent and making sure the […]

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HOUSTON-Rapper Scarface, real name Brad Jordan is currently incarcerated for 4 cases of not paying child support and an unknown federal charge. XXLmag reports: A rep for the jail told XXL that ’Face is being held for incidents in Harris County, Montgomery County, Fort Bend County and the state of Missouri. In addition he is […]

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Los Angeles — The woman Dr. Conrad Murray phoned when he realized Michael Jackson was dying has broken her silence about the fateful day, revealing the medic “didn’t sound like himself” and was clearly troubled. Former cocktail waitress Sade Anding, who Murray was pursuing romantically at the time, is set to testify for the prosecution […]

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California — Black youth and young adults are nearly five times more likely to be killed in California than the average young Californian. The disparity was even wider for black males, who have a homicide rate more than 14 times that of whites and nearly four times that of Hispanics. Those are among the disturbing […]

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Last year HelloBeautiful ran articles about untrue stereotypes of black men, as well as untrue stereotypes of black women. So what about misleading stereotypes of Americans generally? Do we really know what the rest of the world thinks about us? Talking to a friend from New Zealand recently who is just about to come to […]

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On his radio show earlier this week, shock-jock Rush Limbaugh called Pres. Obama a “pharoah,” when speaking about the protests in Egypt. “Well, the same question needs to be asked about Pharaoh Obama,” he said. “Why didn’t the Pharaoh see this coming, particularly given his wonderful relationship with this regimes and their people? Obama went […]

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Kimora Lee Simmons seems to have it–  all including love. When we got her on the line recently to talk about the new season of her hit reality show “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane” on the Style Network, of course we had to get all in her business and find out the Fabulosity-approved relationship […]

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Egypt — Millions are in uproar since Kenneth Cole invoked the Egypt uprising and Cairo hashtag to promote his spring line on Twitter this morning. The tweet read “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo.” The tweet was signed “-KC” implying that […]

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Kentucky — Freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor Wednesday to deliver a maiden speech that compared the momentous task of 19th century abolitionists to the Tea Party’s proclaimed duty of ensuring that Washington addresses its spending habits. Paul drew historical references from the dais, comparing himself not to the famous Kentucky […]

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Montana — Molly B, a lucky Montana cow that was spared after jumping over a slaughterhouse gate and swimming across the Mississippi River, is being given a new home.

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Alabama– Two shots were fired in a courtroom in Goodwater, Alabama, and a man was removed on a stretcher, local media reported on Thursday.

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Melissa Etheridge says she has enjoyed getting in touch with her punk side as she prepares to temporarily replace Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong in the American Idiot Broadway musical.