"A Different World" Star Lou Myers -- famous for playing Mr. Vernon Gaines on the 80s show -- has died, TMZ has learned.
The President of Lou's non-profit tells TMZ, Lou passed away last night in West Virginia at the Charleston Medical Center foll ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 8:10PM
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"My door is open. I've put tough cuts and reforms on the table. I'm willing to work with anybody to get this job done. None of us will get 100 percent of what we want. But nobody should want these cuts to go through, because the last thing our famili ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 3:15PM
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... and as much as establishment GOP types might want it, they are refusing to go away. They've even made Karl Rove a "wanted man," http://on.msnbc.com/YESE16
We're calling it a "hot mess." What do you call it?
On 4th birthday, tea party won ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 3:13PM
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Maya Angelou on respect: Women are not the ‘b’ word, and blacks are not the ‘n’ word
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In the eloquent language that has been a hallmark of her long and impressive career, poet, j ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 2:58PM
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It’s a well known fact that Black Thought knows just about every lyric every relevant rapper has ever spit (only a slight exaggeration). Before last night’s airing of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, he proved this once again as he teamed with Method Ma ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 2:46PM
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If you are an African-American man and/or teenager who is working to improve the conditions of crimen-ridden Baltimore, you can receive up to $20,000 for your community engagement projects, thanks to a joint partnership between the Knight and Open So ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 2:42PM
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has been sued for allegedly encouraging his congregants to enter into a Ponzi scheme. The documents were filed in DeKalb County about three weeks ago, and hold Bishop Lo ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 2:39PM
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has been sued for allegedly encouraging his congregants to enter into a Ponzi scheme. The documents were filed in DeKalb County about three weeks ago, and hold Bishop Lo ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 2:38PM
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NOT long ago the writer saw on a street ear one of the prettiest women in the world. She was a perfectly black woman becomingly dressed in suitable gray and modest adornments which harmonized with her color. She was naturally a commanding figu ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 11:53PM
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The people who maintained schools for the education of certain Negroes before the Civil War were certainly sincere; and so were the missionary workers who went South to enlighten the freedmen after the results of that conflict had given the Negroes ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 11:43PM
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Gina ThaDiva Ebanks presents: Where’s The Vaseline? This Disclaimer: Joke is strictly for Grown Folks
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A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 9:37PM
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Man child must be prepared for life, prepared for the journey ahead, prepared for their position, leadership, and increased in their knowledge and strength of self, in order for one to achieve true manhood, he must be able to stand, walk, think, and ...
Posted Monday, February 18th 2013 at 11:09PM
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ATLANTA -- While President Obama and some of the rest of the nation are pushing stricter gun control laws, Georgia's State Legislature is debating looser gun laws.
The main argument behind them is that people should have the right to protect thems ...
Posted Monday, February 18th 2013 at 10:57PM
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Hello Everyone, This Tattoo was done for a woman who had breast cancer ! Facebook keeps removing the post in 24hour as an offensive photo do to nudity. However we feel this woman is both brave and strong so were going to post it anyways and ask for y ...
Posted Monday, February 18th 2013 at 10:52PM
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*As we reported, Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, the Idaho businessman who allegedly hurled a racial slur before slapping a 19-month-old infant on a boozed-fueled flight has lost his job.
Meanwhile, Jessica Bennet, the mother of the child, is describing how ...
Posted Monday, February 18th 2013 at 3:59PM
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LOS ANGELES—Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers owner who transformed the team into the glamor franchise of a revitalized NBA, died on Monday at the age of 79, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Buss had been reported to be in hospital last week fightin ...
Posted Monday, February 18th 2013 at 2:42PM
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A LOT OF TALK BEEN GOING AROUND,ABOUT WHO IS WHO , WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT IS REAL FAKE pick a topic for scholarship debate ,,ROBERT POWELL YAKOB SAINT JAKES AND ANYONE ELSE THAT WANTS TO ''DEBATE '' ALL BLOCK OFF ,,,,, ...
Posted Sunday, February 17th 2013 at 1:44AM
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Meet the doctor who's challenging President Obama's policies and fighting for real change in America! Sean sits down with special guest Dr. Benjamin Carson
February 15, 2013
Dr. Carson fields audience questions ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 11:35PM
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Ruby Bridges - An American Sheroe
U.S. Marshals escorting the brave Ruby Bridges.
Courageous Ruby Nell Bridges Hall, born September 8, 1954, is known as the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South in 1960, despit ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 10:51PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Jesse Jackson, Jr., wife charged with federal crimes
Federal charges were filed Friday against former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. which include conniving to spend $750,000 in campaign contributions for personal expenses. His wife, ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 8:41PM
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What about the hundreds of UNARMED black youths killed by police officers in the past decade? where is the out cry ,,,,,,we got to wait for the whites kids to got hooked on drugs before they try to change the law ,we got to wait for the white kids t ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 7:53PM
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