At 83 years of age, actress Marla Gibbs is still going strong. She has a career that has included television, movies and live performances. Best known as the feisty, quick-witted Florence Johnston on The Jeffersons and Mary Jenkins on 227, the popula ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 7:21PM
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Legendary soul singer and O’Jay’s singer, Eddie Levert has had the types of career ups that anybody in the music business would love to have:…
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Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 7:15PM
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Sooo…when I first read that Disney star Zendaya Coleman was cast as Aaliyah in the biopic “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B,” I went into one of those self-righteous Black power rants about Zendaya not being brown enough to play “Baby Girl.” I thought back t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 7:11PM
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Father’s Day was a joyous occasion for many families yesterday, including Bobby Brown who reunited with his daughter Bobbi Kristina. If you haven’t been keeping up with the Houstons (who are we kidding, we’re all in their business), you may not be aw ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 5:30PM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shire Plc has agreed to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration request to study its stimulant Vyvanse in preschool children as concern rises over the diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the drugmak ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 4:47PM
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Your World Cup News
Day 16
June 2014
Natal, Brazil
They got it!
A suprising upset and win the Team USA worked hard to get a opener win at the World Cup Games. It was a tough game to beat as USA worked digently winning over Ghana with a 2-1 ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 1:51PM
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — The number of whooping cough cases in the Southland and throughout California has reached epidemic proportions, state health officials said Friday. The California Department of Public Health said in a statement released ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 1:18PM
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By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | June 17, 2014
LONDON, June 17- Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Windsor Castle on Tuesday on a visit to Britain which aims to repair strained relations between London and Beijing.
Dozens of Ch ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 10:53AM
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Your National/World Weather
Day 16
June 2014
Nebraska States
Tornadoes scrambled up several destructive storms across the States of Nebraska on June 16, 2014. With large spools of dark clouds and swooping mountains of disasters. Large hail ...
Posted Tuesday, June 17th 2014 at 7:24AM
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25 to Life, a debut feature-length documentary by award-winning director and Spike Lee protégé Mike L. Brown, will have its world premiere as part of the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in New York at SVA Theatre (333 W. 23rd Street) on Sunday, J ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 7:23PM
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NurseTogether has confirmed that 24 states are part of the compact state nurse licensure (NLC).
Nurse Compact State License
http://www.nursetogether.com/nurse-licensure-applications--fees-by-state
A nurse with a permanent residency in a NLC st ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 10:49AM
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We salute Deanna Jordan, a single mother of three who graduated from UCLA with three degrees on Friday!
“I needed for my sons to see there was a legacy that preceded them with college. I am the first in my family to go to college,” the 28-year-old m ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 10:44AM
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SPECIAL EDITION
THIS HOMETOWN LIL EXTRA!
Read this story of a rare sentence
in a Hometown
DEATH SENTENCE AND LIFE
AS WELL HANDED DOWN
BY JURORS NATIONAL NEWS
DID TELL
Day 10
June 2014
The trial of Se ...
Posted Monday, June 16th 2014 at 7:27AM
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BASEBALL FANS!
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Boy! what a long, long, long, long. game!
The Los Angeles Angels were long winged after regrouping....then finally flew away with a win over the Atlanta Braves. This Saturday's night game was long, but ne ...
Posted Sunday, June 15th 2014 at 5:38PM
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Angelina Jolie can add royal recognition to Hollywood stardom. The Oscar-winning actress has been named an honorary dame — the female version of a knight — by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
Jolie, a United Nations special envoy, received the honor on Friday for her work combating sexual violence i ...
Posted Saturday, June 14th 2014 at 11:35AM
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