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VIA: Singersroom.com The ex-wife of gospel recording star BeBe Winans is pleased with Oprah Winfrey’s decision to remove him from a several episode stint. Speaking with TMZ shortly after the decision was confirmed by Winfrey’s rep, Winans said the ban “further demonstrates the fact that Oprah continues to be a strong voice against domestic violence […]
VIA: Singersroom.com Donald Lawrence, Smokie Norful, Kierra Sheard, and Mary Mary are among those with leading nominations for the 25th Annual Stellar Awards. Lawrence, nominated for a multitude of awards, including Artist of the Year, is being recognized for his 2009 effort “The Law of Confession Part 1”. Up for eight nominations in total, “The […]
VIA: Houston Chronicle Houston rapper Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys is finally unleashing his long-promised gospel-rap album. The video for the disc’s title track, Testimony of Redemption, was filmed in Houston and Los Angeles. It details Bill’s hard-knock life from Geto Boy to gunshot victim to gospel rapper. Check out the video below. The […]
VIA: USA Today It felt like a memorial service for soldiers killed in battle. Framed portraits of the dead with 13 pairs of combat boots, each with an inverted rifle topped with a helmet lined up in a row on a sunny day. But it wasn’t a battlefield. It was Fort Hood, Texas, home to […]
VIA: CNN.com Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest college and professional basketball players of all time, says he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer. “I have chronic myeloid leukemia,” Abdul-Jabbar told CNN. He said he received the diagnosis last December. The 62-year-old former center for the Los Angeles Lakers said aside from […]
VIA: CNN.COM John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that terrorized the suburbs of the nation’s capital, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening at a state prison near Jarratt, Virginia. Muhammad continued to profess his innocence during two lengthy trials — including one featuring testimony from young accomplice Lee […]
VIA: People For weeks, Mya has endured critique after frustrating critique from judge Len Goodman on Dancing with the Stars. If he wasn’t complaining about her routines lacking content, it was that they were too theatrical. But during Monday night’s quarterfinal competition, Len said his only disappointment with with her routine was, “I couldn’t find […]
VIA: CNN.com The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215. With the passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proponents of health care reform took an important step forward, but turning the bill into law remains uncertain. It’s unclear when the […]
VIA: Entertainment Weekly While big-studio releases like A Christmas Carol and The Fourth Kind topped the box office chart this weekend, all OscarWatchers’ eyes were on Precious. After dominating this year’s film-festival prizes, the indie drama opened on Friday to very strong reviews, resulting in an 85 grade from Rotten Tomatoes. EW’s Owen Gleiberman rated […]
VIA: USA Today Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a recent study reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Although one in five children rely on food stamps for years, many more live in families who turn to food stamps during a short-term crisis, […]
In part II of her “Good Morning America” interview, Rihanna said ex-boyfriend Chris Brown “had no soul in his eyes” the night he assaulted her. Watch the video below:
VIA: Orlando Sentinel Orlando police confirmed that a man suspected in a deadly mass shooting in downtown Orlando has been taken into custody. The suspect, Jason Rodriguez, 40, is a former employee of Reynolds, Smith & Hill, a construction engineering firm. A SWAT team spotted him through a window at his mother’s residence, Orlando Police […]