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Rap star T.I. is due before a federal judge in Atlanta to explain why his probation shouldn’t be revoked after his recent arrest in Los Angeles. By: EURweb.com

Here is a new song from Tank. ‘Emergency’ has been selected as the 2nd single from his new album, ‘Now or Never’, which has been delayed until December 14th.

The first 24-hour sports, “edutainment” and lifestyle network dedicated to historically black colleges and universities is on the horizon. C3 Media, LLC, the holding company that owns and operates the network, announced Tuesday at a news conference in New York that the HBCU Network will launch in 2011. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/22022

VIA Eurweb.com: Oprah Winfrey is making sure that the 300 audience members involved in her upcoming Australia trip won’t get saddled with the gift taxes that blindsided recipients of her big car giveaway in 2004. TMZ spoke with Larry Edema from Michigan – one of the audience members on the Australia show – who said […]

            American Idol has entered the MySpace era (aka 2006), and is tapping into the powerful musical legacies of Toni Basil, Billy Ray Cyrus, and the Crash Test Dummies. Nope, I’m not pulling your leg. For the first time in its ten-season history, Fox’s behemoth of a singing competition is […]

        Oprah Winfrey might have surprised her talk show audience Monday by giving them all a free, eight-day trip to Australia but the trip also surprised Australians — with a A$3 million (US$2.8 million) bill. Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson said the federal and state New South Wales governments would spend more than […]

   If you don’t know the name Ernest Withers (pictured above), I can guarantee that you know of his work. Remember the famous and horrible picture of Emmett Till (pictured below)? Withers took that one. Think about nearly every well-known picture of Dr. Martin Luther King you can think of. Well, Withers probably took that […]

Randy Moss of the New England Patriots had just come off a big opening season win against the Cincinnati Bengals when he figured no better time than the present to talk about his “up in the air” contract during a press conference after the game.  He figures he’s being sabotaged and he wanted everyone to […]

Movieline has confirmed that Lionsgate shortened the title of Perry’s award season ensembler For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf to just For Colored Girls. The movie stars a sweeping all-star cast including Whoopi Goldberg, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, […]

“Ladies, leave your man at home.” The line is a lyric from a Destiny’s Child song, but it could be a tagline for Bill Bellamy’s new comedy tour. The youthful-looking comic launches his “Ladies’ Night Out” this month, which hits cities from Orlando to Dallas in the coming weeks. Read More below. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/gossip/21972

Teddy Pendergrass was the latest icon to be celebrated on TVOne’s Unsung series.

A month after the singer-actress’s initial deal with “American Idol” fell apart — thanks, in part, to demands that had gotten “out of hand,” according to a source — Lopez will after all be joining the judging panel for the show’s upcoming 10th season, sources tell PEOPLE.  Read more: