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From the LA Times: Tyler Perry is doing just fine without 3-D, thank you. The writer, director and producer’s latest effort, “Why Did I Get Married Too?,” took in a most impressive $30.1 million in its first weekend. The sequel to his 2007 hit “Why Did I Get Married?” not only beat the opening of […]
From CNN: Augusta, Georgia — Tiger Woods returns to golf Monday at the Masters, ending a self-imposed exile stemming from a November car accident outside his home and his subsequent admission of extramarital affairs amid a media frenzy. Woods is set to participate in a news conference — his first since the scandal broke — […]
If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. “The United States incurs $13 billion in excess costs annually and suffers 911 preventable deaths per year […]
The weather has taken a turn for the better in the past couple of days and most people have been enjoying the sun but not residents on the Southside of Chicago. In just a matter of two days a total of 41 people have been shot, which includes 4 deaths, in 31 different incidents. “Between […]
Dallas police have announced that they’ve charged neosoul singer Erykah Badu with disorderly conduct for her nude video shoot on a downtown street. Police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said the video shoot for Badu’s song Window Seat happened March 13 on the streets bordering Dealey Plaza on the east and north. Mitchell said on Friday the […]
(CNN) — The notoriously private Janet Jackson opened up about her brother’s death on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Friday, admitting that the family knew he had a problem. “People think we were in denial but we weren’t. We tried intervention several times. He was very much in denial — he didn’t think he had […]
From BlackNews.com: Dallas, TX (BlackNews.com) – As the economy continues its sluggish recovery, and with unemployment topping 9.7%, many people, especially minorities, have had to find alternative means to support themselves. Etiquette and social graces workshops specifically geared to the young people living in urban communities have been quietly on the rise as the lure […]
Via NewsOne.com: WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy posted its largest job gain in three years in March, while the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month. The increase in payrolls is the latest sign that the economic recovery is gaining momentum and healing in the job market is beginning. Still, the […]
Newsweek wrote that Joe Biden’s Big F—- Deal Statement when the health care signed was one of the few times that the F-bomb was appropriate. Now they are using Biden’s statement as a fund raising T-Shirt. RELATED STORIES Obama Visits Iowa To Sell Health Care Reform To Public PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS HEALTH CARE REFORM INTO […]
(CNN) — For nearly 11 years, the family of Nelta Jacques has awaited word on her fate, as well as that of her two daughters, ages 5 and 7. The three disappeared on a rain-soaked night in June 1999 as they were traveling from Jacques’ father’s home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to their home in […]
Via CNN: President Obama is set to unveil plans Wednesday to open large swaths of U.S. coastal waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling — a move likely to please the energy industry but upset the administration’s environmentalist supporters. “To set America on a path to […]
VIA CNN: Severe storms hammered North Carolina on Sunday evening, but no fatalities had been reported as of Monday morning, and injuries were minor, officials said. Residents reported as many as eight tornadoes touching down — overturning mobile homes, ripping out trees and plunging neighborhoods into darkness. Survey crews were meeting with local officials throughout […]
