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From BlackVoices.com: Glenn Beck thinks social or economic justice are code words for Nazism or communism, and he called President Barack Obama a racist, but he can’t get enough of Madea?

In a recent interview with the New York Post, comedian and actor, Tracy Morgan said: I’m glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn’t be where I’m at. I would have had a net. I’m glad I didn’t have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams […]

Kitty Kelly, who is infamous for her unauthorized biographies was on the “Today Show” today to discuss her biography of Oprah Winfrey. She revealed that Oprah had an autobiography that that she decided not to release in 1993. In that book, according to Kelly, Oprah referred to herself as a “prostitute” in her teenage years. […]

From SeattleTimes.com The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, running April 17-25, is all over town this year.

From HuffingtonPost.com: Elizabeth Taylor is engaged to be married for the ninth time, Us Weekly reports.

From FOXNews.com: The President and First Lady took time out of their busy schedules on Wednesday to sit down for a taping with “American Idol” as part of the hit show’s fundraising event set to air next week.

From HuffingtonPost.com: Oprah is set to announce plans for an evening show on her new Oprah Winfrey Network, the Wall Street Journal’s Sam Schechner reported.

From CNN: Tyler Perry has done it yet again. His latest opus to the melodrama of marriage, “Why Did I Get Married Too,” landed at No. 2 at the box office last weekend, with a gross of $29 million.

LOS ANGELES – On her new VH1 reality dating show, Rozonda Thomas — better known as Chilli from the groundbreaking hip-hop group TLC — doesn’t lounge in bubble baths or hand out fake bling to her suitors. Instead, the 39-year-old singer and mother meets bachelors at black-tie affairs and confers with a dating expert, as […]

From Philly.com: NOT EVERYBODY knows what it’s like to be roasted by Bill Cosby, but Pamela Browner-White does.

From CNN: Los Angeles, California — The appointment of a new judge to preside over the criminal trial of Dr. Conrad Murray delayed for two months a decision on if Michael Jackson’s last doctor can keep his California medical license.

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of Michael Jackson fans are rallying outside a Los Angeles courthouse where the pop star’s doctor has a hearing in his involuntary manslaughter case.