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] Comedian/actor Sinbad is in a little bit of trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. How much trouble? $8.15 million in trouble, according to the Detroit News. The US Attorney General wants the comedian’s house sold to help satisfy the debt. On December 10th, an assistant US Attorney asked a federal judge to foreclose on […]
VIA: RhodellLewis.com Following the biggest first week sales of his career with the recent release of his sophomore solo CD The Law of Confession, Part 1 (Quiet Water/Zomba Gospel) (the project debuted at #2 on Billboard magazine’s gospel album sales chart, at #71 on the Billboard Hot 100 Albums chart and at #1 on the […]
VIA: People.com Brittany Murphy died of cardiac arrest early Sunday morning, after her mother had found her unconscious in the shower, according to a report by TMZ. The actress was 32. It is reported that a call went out to 911 from Murphy’s Los Angeles home at 8 a.m. Attempts to revive her were not […]
// WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s capital got in the holiday spirit Sunday night when music legends Neil Diamond and Mary J. Blige performed for President Barack Obama at the annual “Christmas in Washington” concert. The festivities, hosted by comedian George Lopez, took place at the National Building Museum and benefited the Children’s National Medical […]
VIA: USAToday.com A CDC released a four-year, 1.3 million-person study on happiness: Apparently the happiest Americans are in Louisiana, while the Empire State (N.Y.) is leaving people least satisfied. The CDC speculates this has to do with things like sunshine hours, congestion, cost of living, air quality and availability of public land. Not on the […]
VIA: USA Today.com The author known simply as Sapphire titled her acclaimed, controversial 1996 novel, Push, for a simple reason: Her narrator, an illiterate and obese 16-year-old girl, is urged to do a lot of pushing. When Precious Jones confesses to a teacher in a Harlem alternative school that she can’t read — that “the […]
VIA: CNN.com Americans are in a war that pits the politically correct against Christmas carolers, some say. They say it’s a battle that plays out in the halls of Congress, retail stores and public schools across the country, and it’s one that’s been raging for years. Republican Rep. Henry Brown of South Carolina introduced a […]
Mariah Carey recently appeared on “Lopez Tonight” and discussed her ethnic background. The singer gave a shout out to her Irish mother, and said her father was black and grew up in Harlem. She also revealed the DNA test results of host George Lopez. Find out the comedian’s results below: The singer will launch her […]
VIA: Bossip.com Looks like Tina and Mathew Knowles are finally calling it quits. According to sources, Tina whose name was filed as Celestine under court documents, has decided to finally end her marriage with Matthew. Take a look at the court document below: Beyonce’s dad got his baby mama a job Documents were actually filed […]
VIA: AccessAtlanta Local photographer FreddyO told Mediatakeout.com that former soap star and public speaker Victoria Rowell may become the sixth cast member on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Or she could be the fifth if either Kim Zolciak or NeNe Leakes fail to come to an agreement with the show for a third season. Insiders […]
VIA: Newsone.com The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years – to 2050 – because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S. Census Bureau projections released Wednesday update last year’s prediction that white children would […]
VIA: AJC.com Oprah Winfrey has sent The Ron Clark Academy some kind of stocking stuffer this Christmas: $1.5 million. The southeast Atlanta school alerted Buzz moments ago that Winfrey sent the donation after learning the school was having trouble raising money, and said she hoped the contribution “would inspire others to follow her lead.” In […]