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Fox News Channel has announced that it is dropping Glenn Beck’s controversial afternoon talk show. As we previously reported, Beck’s show has lost over 1 million viewers and is suffering financially due to several advertisers boycotting the program. Fox and Beck said the show will end later this year. Beck’s media company Mercury Radio Arts […]

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LeBron James mother, Gloria James was arrested in Miami for misdemeanor assault. According to TMZ, Gloria was at the Fountainbleau hotel sometime late Wednesday night partying at LIV nightclub with some of her girlfriends, but when she tried to leave the hotel, she got into an altercation with one of the valet parking attendants. James […]

Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was at Praise 102.5 this week and discussed how she felt about the memorial being built for her father on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is scheduled to finally open this August and the King family will be […]

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Janet Jackson is about to make history in Paris. She will be the first female pop artist to perform under the I.M.Pei glass Pyramid at Paris’ famed Louvre Museum. She will be giving a live show during the biannual fundraising event “Liaisons au Louvre.” The President of the museum said, “Janet Jackson is one of […]

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Wendy Williams is twice covering the latest issue of Essence magazine (May 2011). Her double covers mark the magazine’s first-ever “Girlfriends” issue, which celebrates the unbreakable bond of female friendships. Inside, she dishes about friendship, family and the driving force behind the her appeal, saying “I know I make some people cringe. But I also […]

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Marcus Samuelsson, Top Chef Master and owner of Harlem’s Red Rooster graces the cover of Uptown Magazine’s April Issue.   Samuelsson poses alongside his gorgeous model wife, Gate Maya Haile in a jaw-dropping, jealousy eliciting cover photo.  They are giving Beyonce and Jay-Z a run for their money for the sexiest celebrity couple. The issue also […]

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Wendy Williams and her partner, Tony Dovolani, were voted off “Dancing With the Stars” last night. After the results were announced, Williams thanked her partner and the judges, and joked, “Despite stereotypes, this is one black girl who can’t even do the running man.” The 46-year old personality attributed her poor performances to too much […]

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Former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star DeShawn Snow has lost 30 pounds. Her weight loss kicked off after her very public divorce from NBA player Eric Snow. “I felt everything was out of my control,” Snow, 37, tells UsMagazine.com. “I had no control over anything that was happening in my life and the weight and […]

Martin Luther King III and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young are teaming up to launch an Atlanta-based broadcast TV network aimed at African-American viewers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bounce TV, which is being billed as “the nation’s first-ever over-the-air broadcast television network designed exclusively for African-American audiences,” will target viewers ages 25-54with a lineup […]

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Dariel Pulliam, a celebrity hairstylist who appeared on VH1’s “What Chilli Wants 2,” and worked with singer Keyshia Cole as well as a lot of other folks in the industry, has passed away from an undisclosed illness. Chilli’s Co-Star Tionna Smalls To Get Her Own Reality Show Keyshia Cole’s Hairstylist & Sister Elite To Get […]

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Beyoncé is set to drop her fourth solo album in June. The Grammy-winning songstress reportedly previewed six new tracks from the album for label execs at the Sony Music offices in New York City. “These songs, the best description I can give is groundbreaking,” said Denis Hardlin, head of Sony Music in Australia who flew […]

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Star Jones appeared on “The Joy Behar Show” on Monday night to chat, for the first time since 2006, with her former ‘The View’ co-host, and you could see the tension in the air! Star was promoting her new novel “Satan’s Sisters,” which, appropriately, revolves around a daytime television talk show host. Wonder how much […]