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From the good folks at Newsone.com, producer/director Tyler Perry has penned an open letter to one of the alleged victims of Jerry Sandusky in the scandal that has rocked Penn State University and the entire country. Read it HERE.
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Among chief executives, Steve Jobs was an outlier. CEOs of public companies are generally hands-on, but Jobs was involved in practically every detail, from determining which industries Apple should invade to the material used for the iPhone’s screen. Jobs even got directly involved in customer service, which was a part of […]
via: cnn.com Actress Michelle Williams talks to Piers Morgan about how emotional it was for her to play Marilyn Monroe. See More
President Barack Obama, who in 1979 won a Hawaii state championship playing basketball for his high school, the Punahou School, really misses NBA basketball. He misses it so much that he’s decided to do something about it. With the NBA lockout threatening to cancel the entire season, last week, the president’s re-election campaign announced that […]
Dr. Cornel West is leaving his post as a professor Princeton University follow what he believes God is leading him to do. West will take a pay cut to teach Christian Practices at Union Theological Seminary in New York beginning in July 2012. Union happens to be the place he got his start as an […]
via: cnn.com State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The mother of one of Jerry Sandusky’s alleged victims — the first to come forward in the case — said her son is afraid the former Penn State coach might go free. The son, who is identified as Victim 1 in a report issued by a grand jury […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Google opened an online music store and a free Web storage locker on Wednesday for listening to tracks from computers, tablets and phones, the company announced at a news conference in Los Angeles. Read More
In a statement sent to us by publicist Rachel Noerdlinger, the family of Heavy D says the following: Hev had great love for his family and friends; he was a kind and giving spirit who extended and shared himself with everyone who crossed his path. He had a heart of gold, was approachable, very personable […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Porn, violent images and other graphic pieces of content are spreading across Facebook in what appears to be a widespread and ugly spam attack. Graham Cluley, a consultant with Web security firm Sophos, said Tuesday that “explicit and violent” images had been flooding theNews Feeds of Facebook users for the past […]
via: cnn.com (CNN) — Need more evidence that Facebook’s real-name-only policy has its flaws? Well, here you go: A few days ago, Facebook allegedly kicked famous author Salman Rushdie off of its social network, and then asked him to change his posted name to Ahmed if he wanted to return. Read More
Washington D.C. ranks atop a newly released National Urban League Policy Institute study that lists the top metropolitan areas for Black-owned businesses. Los Angeles and Chicago came in at number two and three respectively while Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX came in at number six to represent Texas when it comes to cities best suited for Black […]
The U.S. Senate approved legislation this past Wednesday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines, a long overdue recognition to the first Blacks to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Continue Story TheRoot.com